[V5.1 and later]Planning

Planning is an activity in which you make decisions that affect one or more subsequent activities.

In this documentation set, you will find pre-installation planning covered in Installing. There, the planning information helps IT architects and various administrators select and implement multiple node server environments comprised of one or more product installations.

Note the topic Establishing multimachine environments, as it is an essential task in a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environment.

Aside from the planning that precedes product installation, application developers and others encounter various decisions that are smaller in scale, but can have ramifications if not well planned. Those are the kind of decisions outlined under Planning.

For example, selecting a session tracking approach can affect application development, assembly, and administration downstream.

Whatever kind of planning you are doing, it is best to review the product documentation of the functional area you are using, to understand the key concepts underlying, as well as the specific product support and limitations in that area.