Configure and deploy into an existing application server

Use this option if you want to deploy IBM® Business Solutions into an existing application server runtime environment.

The IBM Welcome Page V1.1 and IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 applications can be deployed into an existing application server runtime environment. Perform the following steps to to use an existing application server and HTTP server:
  1. Open your Web browser, and enter the following URL:
    http://your.server.name:2001

    where your.server.name is the name of your iSeries™ server.

    Note: HTTP server administration must be started for this URL to be successfully displayed. To start HTTP server administration, enter the following command on the CL command line:
    STRTCPSVR SERVER(*HTTP) HTTPSVR(*ADMIN)
  2. Enter your user profile name and password, if applicable. The user profile must have *ALLOBJ and *IOSYSCFG special authority.
  3. Click IBM Web Administration for iSeries.
  4. Click the Manage tab.
  5. Click the Application Servers tab.
  6. Select your application server from the Instance/server drop-down field.
  7. Under the WAS Wizards heading, click Deploy IBM Telephone Directory.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Specify your virtual host name, and click Next.
  10. Select the HTTP server you want to use, and click Next. The application server requires an associated with an HTTP server, which routes the incoming URL requests to the new application server.
    1. If you are creating a new HTTP server, specify a name for the HTTP server. It is recommended that you specify the same name as your application server.
    2. Optionally, specify a description for the new HTTP server.
    3. Select the appropriate values for the IP Address field and the Port field. The IP address and port you specify must not be in use by any other server on your system. The values you specify are used to determine the URL of the IBM Welcome Page V1.1 application.
    4. Click Next.
  11. You can specify how the resources are to be accessed from a browser. Select the IP access type you want to use, and click Next.
  12. On the Business application install - Configuration for LDAP page of the wizard, specify the following fields:
    1. Specify your LDAP server host name in the LDAP server host name field.
    2. Specify the LDAP port in the LDAP port field. The default non-secured port is 389.
    3. Note that the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 (and IBM Welcome Page V1.1) administrator ID is Administrator and the group administrator ID is Administrators.
    4. Specify the password that you will use for the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 (and IBM Welcome Page V1.1) application administrator.
    5. Confirm the password you specified.
    6. Select whether or not you want to give IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 users the option to be able to enroll themselves (open enrollment).
    7. Click Next.
  13. On the Business application install - Configuration for LDAP page of the wizard,specify your LDAP user and password. The default LDAP administrator DN is cn=Administrator. Click Next.
  14. Specify the parent DN for user and administrative group entries. By default, these entries have the form cn=users,DC=SERVER,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM.
  15. Click Next.
  16. On the Summary page of the wizard, take note of the URL to access the IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 (and IBM Welcome Page V1.1) applications. Typically, the case-sensitive URL's have the form of:
    • Usage - http://your.server.name:port/ibm-bizApps/welcome.
    • Administration - http://your.server.name:port/ibm-bizApps/welcome/admin.do.
  17. Click Finish to complete the configuration.

After the IBM Welcome Page V1.1 and IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 applications have been deployed into the application server instance, you must wait for the application deployment to complete before you can start the server and begin using the application. You can use the Refresh button Refresh to determine if the application has completed the installation process.

Application has completed the deployment process

Once the application has completed the deployment process, perform the following steps:
  1. On the Manage Application Server page, click Start Start to start the application server.
  2. Select the HTTP server associated with your application server from the drop-down list of servers.
  3. Click Start Start to start the HTTP server.

IBM Welcome Page V1.1 and IBM Telephone Directory V5.2 are automatically started.


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