Creating a Node

You can create a node from the GUI or by using the CLI.

GUI

You create a node in an environment and associate it with a host within the environment.

Choose a starting point and follow the appropriate procedure.

Starting Point	Procedure
Environments	Select Infrastructure > Environments. Select an environment and click the Configuration tab and click Nodes. Click the Add button.
Hosts	Select Infrastructure > Hosts. Select an environment and click the Configuration tab and click Nodes. Click the Add button.
Nodes	Select Infrastructure > Nodes. Click the New button.

The New Node dialog displays.

In the Name field, type a name.
If you have not started from a host, choose a host.
- Select a host from the Host drop-down list.
  Note: Only hosts associated with the environment are visible. If there are unavailable hosts, they can be viewed by clicking the Unavailable hosts link.
- Click add host.
  The Add Host dialog overlays the New Host dialog allowing you to bind to a host.
Optionally add one or more of the features available to the Administrator server.

Note: In most cases you can skip this step since Administrator will automatically add features to a node when required -- for example, deploying an application or installing a resource instance. In rare cases, you may have to add features to a node explicitly if the features is from the shared library. The explicit addition of features to a node can be done during and after node creation, and during installation of application or application running.
Click Save.
The node is added to the Nodes list with a Runtime State of Not installed.

In the data file, specify a Node element in full format.

<Node xsi:type="amxdata:Node" name="DevNode" hostName="SystemHost" 
contact="TIBCO" portNumber="5006">
</Node>

In the AMXAdminTask element, set the action attribute to add and the objectSelector attribute to Environment/Node.
```
<AMXAdminTask action="add" objectSelector="Environment/Node"	/>
```