Websphere 7.0 ND installation

So what does your list of application servers show? Are they started?

John-
404 error. See my last post I was typing as you were posting the question..I assume that may help?

Yep. You would need to map/deploy the default application to your <servername>Node01.
Remember that once you are done with that step, and with installing/mapping/testing the IIS plugin, you will need to delete the "Default Application", since LSF9 install will not work if it is installed.

John-
Where do I do this mapping at?

The installed applications are:
DefaultApplication
PlantsByWebSphere
SamplesGallery

None are running. I tried installing a new enterprise app, using the default .ear file, and it also wouldn't start with the same error.
Is this still looking like a mapping issue, or is it possible I need to start trying to make sense of the Websphere logs, and that I have something mis-configured?

Yes, Websphere is definitely my weak point in managing Lawson...one reason for doing this is to ultimately get a better understanding of how Websphere works and works with Lawson.

thanks again to everyone so far for your help.

Does it show the application server as up under Servers->Server Types->WebSphere Application Servers?

If you intend on running IIS w/ WAS plugin, no need to install IBM http Server. =

John-
I have removed the IBM HTTP server.

And I think I'm making tiny babysteps towards the cause of this...
The Application Server won't start, saying the Node Agent is not active.

going to Node Agents, the only one listed shows as stopped. There's only buttons to Stop and Restart (and Restart All Servers on Node).
Trying to restart the nodeagent, I get
The node agent on node <server>Node01 must be started to perform the restart operation. Node agents in stopped state can not be started from the console.

When I go to Nodes | <Server>Node01, and expand the servers under Local Topology, I see three listed. Not sure why as I only have one server...is this legit or a possible cause?

Start the node either from the command line or from the Windows services.

I did find that I didn't have the NodeAgent windows service. Created that following IBM's guide, rebooted, insured the NodeAgent service was started, however nodeagent still won't start within the console. I possibly had the command wrong to create the service, but does this sound reasonable so far?

Did you try it from the command line? %WAS_HOME%\profiles\<profileName>\startNode.bat. What do you get?

%WAS_HOME%\profiles\<profileName>\bin\startNode.bat

I have a renamenode.bat script, but there's no startnode.bat scripts in the bin folder of my profile.
I do have a StartNode.bat script in the main websphere\appserver\bin folder.

Running that finally gave me a good idea of what may be wrong:
D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin>startnode
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\logs\nodeagent\startServer.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the Dmgr01 profile
ADMU3100I: Reading configuration for server: nodeagent
ADMU0111E: Program exiting with error: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\config\cells\<servername>Cell01\nodes\<servername>CellManager01\servers\nodeagent\server.xml
(The system cannot find the path specified.)
ADMU1211I: To obtain a full trace of the failure, use the -trace option.
ADMU0211I: Error details may be seen in the file:
D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\Dmgr01\logs\nodeagent\startServer.log

the path to the server.xml is wrong...should be ...servers\dmgr01\server.xml

Where is this changed at?

I don't know where that would be changed. How about under you Deployment Manager profile? Is there a startNode.bat file there?

hmmm...i'm guessing that's what the DMGR01 is...the deployment manager profile (i didn't create it, and it's the only profile I now have). No startnode.bat in there, only the one in the main \bin folder

Sounds like your problem is in your setup. When WebSphere was installed, there should have been two profiles. One is for the deployment manager (dmgr01) and the other would have been for the application server. The default for that one is usually AppSrv01. It sounds to me like you need to create another profile.

ahhh, success at last. I did have the AppSrv01 originally listed but there was nothing there. Start menu didn't give any shortcuts under it etc.
So I'm going to continue on from here, but I once I know things within websphere are working, I'd like to totally remove websphere and start over, just so that I get my walkthrough correct....is this going to be as simple as removing WAS from add/remove programs, insuring my install directory is gone, and removing the service registry entry I had to manually create?

Yes. That should be all you need to do.

Never mind. Deciding I'll go forward with it as it is, then start over with a brand new virtual image afterwards.
A huge thanks for babystepping me through this. I really do feel like I'm getting at least a little better understanding of how WAS works. A long ways to go, but this has certainly helped!

So I restarted with a fresh copy of Windows on the virtual, and just finished installing Websphere. I still don't think I have a full profile isntalled, as when I check the Start menu under the AppSrv01 profile folder, all I have is the "First Steps" option.
I'm wondering...is this normal and I have to manually create the first profile, or am I missing something on the install? I chose the "Websphere Application Server Network Deployment" option when installing.
At this point I'm going to halt until I hear from you all with much more experience, as I want to make sure I get as clean of an install as I can for my documentation.

OK, disregard the last question. I finally got AppSrv01 working...turns out the problem I had from the beginning was that I needed to launch the StartNode .bat file initially...
So two questions that I now have to continue making progress:
1) I'm not entirely sure how to make the Node start automatically. I thought I had the service setup correctly priior to wiping things, but it was never working, so suggestions to get the Windows Service running so my Node starts up on bootup?
2) I have 3 different setup guides in front of me, and see conflicting information. Do I need to create a new profile for Lawson, or can I just do all of the setup under AppSrv01?

Again, thanks to everyone for helping...I really feel like I'm understanding Websphere a lot more now.

Tom,

Would you mind sharing youre guide with me? I need some help with getting WAS setup.  Thanks,

Jim Ollerton
ollerton@evmwd.net

Hi Tom -

    I am also preparing to upgrade WAS from 6.1 to 7.0....

    We are Windows 2003 / SQL Server 2005(32bit).....

     May I also get a copy of your documentation?
     
thanks so much

Could you send us a copy of the documentation as well?

thanks

Not sure if you wanted Mine or Tom's but here you go.