1: Verifying administrator permissions for report scheduling
Procedure
Open the administrative console in a browser. Example: http://server:port/ibm/console/logon.jsp
Stop the deployed Remote services application:
Click Applications > Enterprise Applications. The rpews.war application you added is
listed as the application name you entered.
Select the Remote services application.
Click Stop.
Verify that at least one administrator is assigned all
of the administrator roles for the services you are using. This
user is specified as the master administrator in the next part of
this task "2: Configuring the report scheduling flags". For the rpe_docgen_admin, rpe_library_admin, rpe_monitor_admin,
and rpe_scheduler_admin roles:
Select the role.
Click Look up users.
In the Search String field, enter rpe* and
click Search.
In the Available column, select rpe_admin and
click >> to add the user to the Selected column.
Click OK.
Click OK and Save directly
to the master configuration.
Start the Remote services application:
Click Applications > Enterprise Applications. The rpews.war application
you added is listed as the application name you entered.
Select the Remote services application.
Click Start. The following confirmation message displays: Application rpews.war on
server server_name and node node_name started
successfully.
Start the Remote services application:
Click Applications > Enterprise Applications. The rpews.war application
you added is listed as the application name you entered.
Select the Remote services application.
Click Start. The following confirmation message displays: Application rpews.war on
server server_name and node node_name started
successfully.
What to do next
You can also assign other users the rpe_scheduler_user role.
2: Configuring the report scheduling flags
Procedure
Open the administrative console in a browser. Example: http://server:port/ibm/console/logon.jsp
Expand Servers > Server Types.
Click WebSphere application servers.
Open the server properties by clicking
the server_name.
In the Server infrastructure section,
expand Java and Process Management.
Click Process definition.
In the Additional Properties section, click Java
Virtual Machine.
In the Additional Properties section,
click Custom properties.
Click New to add the user flag:
Name: com.ibm.rational.rpe.rpews.scheduler.usr
Value: user_name
This user is the master administrator you verified in the previous
part of this task "1: Verifying administrator permissions for report
scheduling." Click OK.
Click New to add the password flag:
Name: com.ibm.rational.rpe.rpews.scheduler.pwd
Value: password
Click OK.
Optional: You can also choose to enforce a
report scheduling URL flag for all of the users in your organization.
The URL that is entered in the user preferences is overridden when
this flag is used. Click New to add the URL
flag:
Name: com.ibm.rational.rpe.rpews.scheduler.url
Value: http://server:port/rpews/
Click OK.
Restart the Remote services application.
3: Testing the configuration
Procedure
In a browser, open the Remote services configuration page: http://server:port/rpews/
Click Report Scheduler Test URL.
Results
If the message The service is up and running
but direct requests to the root service are ignored. displays,
the report scheduling component is running successfully.