Configuring the Remote services application on WebSphere Application Server

Configure the users and Java™ options for the remote services on IBM® WebSphere® Application Server 7.0 or 8.0 by using these steps.

Before you begin

You must install WebSphere Application Server 7.0 or 8.0, Rational® Publishing Engine, and the Remote services application, and then deploy the Remote services application before you can configure the users and Java options.

Optional: Configuring the Monitor & Control component on a different server from the remote document generation

The document generation service uses the Monitor & Control component deployed with it automatically. To use the default Monitor & Control component, no additional configuration is required and you can continue to the next step. To use a different Monitor & Control component on another server or port than the document generation, configure these Java option flags to configure the login credentials.

Procedure

  1. Optional: Set the Java options:
    1. Expand Servers > Server Types.
    2. Click WebSphere application servers.
    3. Open the server properties by clicking the server_name.
    4. In the Server infrastructure section, expand Java and Process Management.
    5. Click Process definition.
    6. In the Additional Properties section, click Java Virtual Machine.
    7. In the Additional Properties section, click Custom properties.
    8. Click New to add the URL flag:
      • Name: com.ibm.rational.rpews.url
      • Value: http://server:port/rpews/
      Click OK.
    9. Click New to add the user flag:
      • Name: com.ibm.rational.rpews.usr
      • Value: rpe_client
      Click OK.
    10. Click New to add the password flag:
      • Name: com.ibm.rational.rpews.pwd
      • Value: password
      Click OK.
    11. Click OK to save the changes.
  2. Test the Monitor & Control component:
    1. Log out of the WebSphere Application Server administrative console.
      Note: You must log out of the administrative console. Because basic authentication is used, only a single session per browser can exist. If you do not log out of the WebSphere Application Server administrative user, you cannot access the Rational Publishing Engine resources to which only the rpe_admin has access and you receive the following message: Error 401: Unauthorized.
    2. Open http://server:port/rpews/ui/monitor.html in a browser.
    3. Log in with the rpe_admin credentials. If it is configured correctly, you can view the user interface of the Rational Publishing Engine Monitor & Control component.
    4. Click Refresh Jobs. The current jobs display.

Results

After you complete the deployment, the Monitor & Control component administration console is available at: http://server:port/rpews/ui/monitor.html. See Managing document generation jobs in the Monitor & Control component for information on using the administration console.

What to do next

On the user computers, specify the URL of the Monitor & Control component for a remote server. See Setting the remote services preferences.


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