After installing Rational® Focal Point™,
an administrator can configure the help system to either access the
contents from a remote ibm.com site or from the locally installed
help. The remote help is set as the default help option. If the internet
connection to publib.boulder.ibm.com is enabled in
the server, the help contents are retrieved from the online information
center and displayed in the help.
Before you begin
- To access the contents from the web, you must be connected to
the internet.
About this task
To configure
Rational Focal Point to
access remote help or the local help:
Procedure
- Open the web browser and type http://localhost:8080/fphelp/remote/remotehelp.jsp. The Configure information centers page
is displayed.
- Specify the option to access the help content.
- To access the help contents from the locally installed help,
select Include local help only.
- To access help contents from the web, select either Include
remote help and give local help priority or Include
remote help and give it priority option. Specify the Rational Focal Point information
center details.
- Click New.
- Type any name for this information center entry. For example:
RFP 6.5
- In the Host field, type publib.boulder.ibm.com
- In the Path field, type /infocenter/rfphelp/v6r5
- Select Use default port.
- Click OK.
- Click Test Connection to verify if the
connection works.
Note: If you have any issues with the default port,
you can specify a different port number and enable the connection.
- Close the page.
What to do next
- If you have selected the local help option, you must download
the help contents using the Local Help Updater. For information, see Downloading Rational Focal Point help.
- If you have selected the remote help option, you can click Help in Rational Focal Point to
view the help contents. The help is retrieved from the ibm.com site.