In developerworks paper IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation "Scalability and Hardware Sizing", There is a typical deployment with WebSphere Application Server.
Scalability and Hardware Sizing
But if choosing Tomcat as application server for MFP server farm deployment, which load balance software will been used? Are there any MFP performance report about the comparison between WebSphere application server and tomcat as MFP application server?
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But if choosing Tomcat as application server for MFP server farm deployment, which load balance software will been used?
You can use whichever software you'd like. There is no enforcement in place.
Are there any MFP performance report about the comparison between WebSphere application server and tomcat as MFP application server?
Performance tests were not run on Tomcat.
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Please help me in configuring two IBM MObilefirst Platform 7.1 ap server to one IBM HTTP Web server. As per the IBM Documents I should follow Server Farm configurations.
Need guidance in doing the same.
Scenario 1
Resources: Two App Servers with IBM MobileFirst Platform v7.1 installed and plugin-cfg geneated using jConsole. Each app server is having separate DB for each. One web server with IBM HTTP installed.
Scenario 2Resources: Two App Servers with IBM MobileFirst Platform v7.1 installed and plugin-cfg geneated using jConsole. Both the app server is having common DB. One web server with IBM HTTP installed.
I need both the app servers to be up at the same time in the above given scenarios. Please let me know in scenario one should I install any separate plugin for setting up server farm configuration.
note:In Scenario 2 currently only one App server can be made up at a time
Use JConsole to generate the plugin-cfg.xml from your individual Liberty servers. You can either merge the plugin-cfg.xml files manually or use Job Manager to generate a merged plugin from both the Liberty servers.
More details here:
Setting up HTTP Server in a WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile farm
Manually merge the files by using a text editor.
Use the job manager to submit a Generate merged plugin configuration for Liberty servers job.
Generating a merged plug-in configuration for Liberty profile servers using the job manager
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I have a confusing with the IBM MobileFirst v8.0, does Mobilefirst App are only using Bluemix service / Server, or can MobileFirst App run on MobileFirst Server v8.0 alone and also does the MobileFirst Server same with MobileFirst Developer Kit.
You can run MobileFirst Server either on-prem, meaning you install it locally in production-ready server that you maintain yourself,
Or you can use IBM Bluemix. In Bluemix you are "given" a space where you can either use the Mobile Foundation service, which takes care of setting up a server for you with MobileFirst Server, or you can go through some steps to create it yourself.
To install on-prem: https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/installation-configuration/
To install on Bluemix: https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/bluemix/
In case of on-prem be sure to first contact IBM to purchase a license so you could gain access to download the required files.
The developer kit is like on-prem, and provides a ready environment for development purposes locally in your computer. It is like the Developer plan when using the Mobile Foundation service plan in Bluemix.
Developer kit: https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/installation-configuration/development/mobilefirst/
Developer plan: https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/bluemix/using-mobile-foundation/
I installed IBM mobilefirst server on Liberty Profile in z/Linux(SUSE). I find the Server Configuration Tool can not be started, but it can be start in Windows7.
I want to know that Server Configuration Tool can not be started only in z/Linux or all platform(x86,AMD).
Server config tool is not available for z/Linux and AIX platforms.
For these platforms the MFP configuration can be done using Ant task scripts instead.
The below link has the information about Creating and configuring the database for MobileFirst Server administration with Ant tasks and also
Deploying the MobileFirst Operations Console and Administration Services with Ant tasks
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHS8R_7.0.0/com.ibm.worklight.installconfig.doc/install_config/r_wlconsole_ant_tasks.html
As far as I know Worklight Studio does not support integration within IDE with WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, and we are constrained to use WAS ND 8.5.5 for hosting of application due to corporate hosting environment restrictions.
The plan is to use: Worklight Studio + WAS Liberty Profile 8.5.5 on development machines, and then move the WAR file to corporate hosting environment with WAS ND 8.5.5.
Are there concerns if this may not work? Maybe there are other suggestions on how organize development and debugging of Workligh application (including Java Adapters).
You can see in the IBM Worklight System Requirements website that WAS ND 8.5.5 is supported when it comes to Production environment. It is indeed not supported in Worklight Studio.
As for concerns, as there are current customers in production (live) in very large scales who use WAS ND with Worklight, things seem to be OK.
Related question:
How to integrate Workligt Studio 6 with WAS ND 8.5.5 in RAD 9
Iam into a different usecase,
Iam workling on General webapplications which we develop using rad for Websphere, and Worklight applications also.
My query here is, can we deploy my webapplication's ear/war file to the Worklight server?
We have a worklight server but dont have hosting for webaplication till now, so can we use the worklight server for hosting the webapplications' ear/war? is there any possibility to do that?
The Worklight Server is able to process Worklight-based applications, not other type of "web-based" applications.
I believe the original question is if we could use Worklight server to deploy EAR/WARs of any applications which are not related to Worklight.
Answer: When the Worklight is nothing but an J2EE application deployed in WAS or WAS Liberty Core, i dont see any issue deploying any EAR/WAR of applications which are not related to Worklight. But i dont think it is highly recommended or advisable since it is against the licensing policy in the Worklight purchase.