How to create a new profile outside theJboss-as/server direc

[jdabbi]

I am using JBoss EAP/AS 5.0. For the purposes of management, I would like to create multiple profiles that are outside the Jboss-as/server directory. I would appreciate any help in doing this.

Is this even possible?

Thanks in advance

[jaikiran]

By "profiles" do you mean, you want to place the deployments outside the JBoss AS folder structure? Or do you want to complete create a new set of profile which includes the "lib", "deployers" etc...?

[jdabbi]

Jboss comes with a set of ptofiles such as default, all, web, etc. they are in the jboss-as/servers directory. I would like to create a new profile for each node of my cluster. however, i would like to place this profile on a separate drive and directory that is outside the jboss-as directory tree.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[peterj]

Yes, you can do this - just set the appropriate system properties to let the app server know where to look.

For example, if you copy server/default to /opt/myconfig, then when starting up the app server, add the following to the JAVA_OPTS:

-Djboss.server.base.dir=/opt/myconfig -Djboss.server.base.url=file:///opt/myconfig/

That should be the only two you have to set.

For a list of most of the properties: http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/JBossProperties
Or use the jmx-console and the SystemProperites mbean to see everything.