You can deploy the monitor and control servlet on WebSphere® Application Server using the outlined steps.
About this task
Start the administrative console. (Log in with the user ID
and password). Once the
Rational® Publishing Engine monitor and control servlet is deployed, the administration
console is available at the URL,
http://server:port/rpemc/ui/index.html.
Procedure
- Deploy Rational Publishing Engine monitor and control servlet.
- Under Applications, select Install New Application. Under Path to new
application, select rpemc from
the installation folder. Enter the Context root. The recommend entry is rpemc. This entry
will be a part of the URL used for configuring the client. Click Next.
- Accept the settings in the following screens: Select installation options, Map modules to
servers, Map virtual host for Web modules,Summary. Click Finish.
- Click Save directly to the master
configuration.
- Configure Security
- Click Users and Groups>Manage Users. Click Create and create two users, rpe_admin and rpe_client.
- Open the roles to users view for rpemc. Navigate to Applications > Enterprise
Applications and select rpe_mc from
the list.
- To associate roles, navigate to Enterprise
Applications > rpemc_war > Security role to user/group mapping. WAS will display
two roles defined by the Deploy Rational Publishing Engine monitor and control servlet: Associate rpe_mc_client role
with both rpe_admin and rpe_client users and Associate rpe_mc_admin
role with rpe_admin user. Click OK.
- Click Save directly to the master
configuration.
You must also change the class loader policies in WAS for the Rational Publishing Engine monitor and control tool.- Navigate to Enterprise Applications > rpemc_war > Class loader.
- Under Class loader order, select Classes loaded with application class loader first.
- Under WAR class loader policy, select Single class loader for application.
- Click Apply and OK
- Check for WAS security settings.
- Navigate to Security > Secure administration,
applications and infrastructure. Clear the check box, Use Java 2 security to restrict application access to local resources.
- Navigate to Security > Secure administration,
applications and infrastructure > Web security > general settings. Select the check box Authenticate only when URI is protected.
- Start the RPE MC application.
- Navigate to Applications > Enterprise Applications and click Start. The following confirmation
message displays, Application rpemc_var on server sever1 and
node IBM-74569A1E1EFNode01 started successfully.
- Test the Rational Publishing Engine monitor and control servlet.
- Logout from the WAS Admin Console. It is mandatory to
logout from the WAS Admin Console. As BASIC authentication is used,
only a single session per browser can exist. By staying logged in
as WAS ADMIN, you will be unable to access the Rational Publishing Engine resources to which only the rpe_admin has access. Accessing
those resources will display the following message, Error 403:
AuthorizationFailed.
- To verify the installation navigate to /rpemc/ui/index.html. On prompt, provide the rpe_admin credentials. If configured correctly,
you can view the UI of Rational Publishing Engine monitor and control.
- Click Refresh Jobs. The results
are displayed.
What to do next
Specify the URL of the monitor and control servlet for a
remote server from
Setting preferences.