Deploy Workplace XT as
an application in the WebSphere® administrative
console. You can specify the context root for the application URL
during the deployment.
To deploy Workplace XT:
- Log on to the WebSphere administrative
console.
- Navigate to .
- Select the file to deploy.
- (If the administrative console is running locally) Select Local
file system and enter or browse to the location of the web_client.war or web_client.ear file
created by the installation program. For example, install_path/deploy/web_client.war or
install_path/deploy/web_client.ear.
Do not enter the machine name.
- (If the administrative console is remote) Select Remote
file system and enter the fully-qualified path name to
the web_client.war or web_client.ear file.
For example, install_path/deploy/web_client.war or
install_path/deploy/web_client.ear.
Do not enter the machine name.
- Click Fast Path, and click Next.
Complete the dialogs for installing a new application, using the following
settings:
- Save your configuration.
- Navigate to .
- Set the polling interval for updated files with a number
appropriate for your environment, for example, 3 seconds.
- Change the Class loader order to Classes
loaded with local class loader first (parent last).
- Click Apply.
- Click .
- In the Modules column, click Workplace
XT.
- Change the Class loader order to Classes
loaded with local class loader first (parent last).
Important: Do this only for the specific web application.
Do not change the similar settings for the entire application server.
- Navigate to .
- Select the All Authenticated role and
click Map Special Subjects.
- Map the All Authenticated role to
the All Authenticated in Applications realm.
- Select the Everyone role and click Map
Special Subjects.
- Map the Everyone role to Everyone.
- Save all your changes to the master configuration.
- Stop and restart WebSphere Application
Server.
- (Windows only)
From the Windows Services
Console, restart the Process Workplace XT Services
Manager service.
- Restart Process Task Manager and Component Manager.
- Exit the Process Task Manager application.
- Start Workplace XT from
the administrative console.
- By using the application server administration
tool, verify that the Workplace XT application
is running.
- Open a Web browser and type in the URL for the Workplace XT application.
- If you are using a load-balancer or proxy server the URL has the
form:
- Workplace XT
- http://virtual_name:port_number/WorkplaceXT
- If connecting to an individual cluster node the URL would have
the form:
- Workplace XT
- http://clustered_server_name:port_number/WorkplaceXT/
Sign-in by using the virtual name to properly set the base Workplace XT URL. If it is not set
correctly you must change it in Site Preferences.
- Verify that the sign-in page displays, and log in as
a user.
- Fail one of the nodes.
- Verify that you can reload the sign-in page, and log
in as the same user.
- To troubleshoot the deployment, check the following log:
WAS_install_path/AppServer/profiles/profile_name/logs/server_name/SystemOut.log
Workplace XT requires
that the client operating system has the Java™ Runtime
Environment (JRE) downloaded and installed. If JRE is not installed,
users will be prompted to install the JRE on first login.