BI Monitor Clustering Support for WebSphere Deployment Manager

As one of the major features of the IBM WebSphere Application Server v5.0.x, BI Monitor supports clustering deployment using the WebSphere 5.0.x Application Server and Deployment Manager.

A Cluster is a set of application servers that are managed together and participate in workload management. The servers that are members of a cluster can be on different host machines, as opposed to the servers that are part of the same node and must be located on the same host machine.

Servers that belong to a cluster are members of that cluster set and must all have identical application components deployed on them. Please refer to the WebSphere Application Server and Deployment Manager v5.0.x documentation for details about creating and configuring clusters.

In order to install and deploy the BI Monitor in a cluster, there are two possible cases:

Please refer to Appendix B of this guide: Manual Deployment of BI Monitor on WebSphere 5.0 for a description of the manual deployment of Monitor Server on WebSphere 5.0