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About Figure 3-2 : This figure only shows portions of the actual WebSphere
Application Server components, The figure will change throughout this chapter
to reflect the concepts introduced in each section.
A stand-alone server can be managed from its own administrative console. It
functions independent from all other application servers. You can also use
WebSphere Application Server’s scripting facility, wsadmin, to perform every
function that is available in the administrative console application.
Multiple stand-alone application servers can exist on a machine, either through
independent installations of the WebSphere Application Server product binaries
or by creating multiple application server profiles within one installation. However
stand-alone application servers do not provide workload management or failover
capabilities. They run isolated from each other.
With WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, it is possible to use workload load
balancing and response time goals on a transactional base as well as a special
clustering mechanism, the multi-servant region, with a stand-alone application
server. For more information about this refer to 14.1.4, “Structure of an
application server” on page 422.
Manage stand-alone servers from a central point: With WebSphere
Application Server V7.0 it is possible to manage stand-alone servers from a
central point by using administrative agents and a job manager. This feature is
explained later in 3.2.4, “Flexible management” on page 78 on page 78.
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