Creating a profile on local server

This topic describes how to create run-time environments for a local WebSphere® Application Server v6.x. Each run-time environment is created within a profile. A profile is the set of files that define the run-time environment. The Profile creation wizard is a WebSphere tool which creates the profile for each run-time environment. It is also a graphical user interface to the WebSphere command-line tool, wasprofile. You can use the development tools in this product to start WebSphere's Profile creation tool.

When WebSphere Application Server is installed, the installation procedure creates one profile named default for an application server named server1. You can use the Profile creation wizard to create more application server processes. For example, a second profile can allow two different teams in a department to test independently of one another using the same machine.

Prerequisites:
  • Verify that you have a minimum of 40 MB of temporary space available before creating a profile. An error can occur when you have not provided enough system temporary space to create a profile.
  • You must have 200 MB of available disk space in the directory where you create an Application Server profile.
  • Set the user of your operating system to have administrator authority. For example, the root user on Linux®. This is required to run the WebSphere Profile Creation wizard.
  • Important: Concurrent profile creation is not supported for one set of core WebSphere product files. Concurrent attempts to create profiles result in a warning about a profile creation already in progress.
To create a profile on a local WebSphere Application Server v6.x:
  1. From the menu bar of the workbench, select Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, expand Server > WebSphere.
  3. Under the WebSphere v6.0 local server profile creation list, select an installed run-time environment for which you want to create a profile and click the Create Profile button.
    Tip: To add an installed run-time environment to this list, see Defining the installed server run-time environments.
  4. Configure your profile by following instructions in the Profile creation wizard. For more information on configuring a profile using the Profile creation wizard, see Using the Profile creation wizard to create an application server.
Tips on configuring a profile:
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