Six bootstrap preference groups are available for configuring
the first time you sign in to Workplace XT.
- Sign in to Workplace XT:
- On any computer, open a browser and type:
http://WorkplaceXTServerName:port#/WorkplaceXT
Important: WorkplaceXTServerName cannot be localhost or an IP address.
- Enter a user name and password, and then click Log in. The Bootstrap Preferences page opens.
The user who initially logs in and sets
the bootstrap preferences is automatically added to the Application Engine Administrators role. For
more information, see the IBM® FileNet® P8 help topic .
- Enter security info (required for SSL only).
- Enter the SSL Host and Port information for the SSL
server.
- Enter the Java™ Server HTTP port.
Use the Security info preference
to redirect Application Integration log-ins through a Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) server and to identify a remote Java server. This encrypts the user IDs and
passwords when they travel over the network. See Setting up SSL security for Workplace XT for instructions on setting up SSL security
for one or more Workplace XT installations.
Important: After you have configured
SSL, the Site Preferences application also runs under SSL to protect
the guest account's user ID and password. This means that when you
run Site Preferences on an unsecured server that redirects sign-ins
to an SSL server, you will be editing the Bootstrap preferences of
the SSL server (stored in the bootstrap.properties file). This does not affect the General, Object Store, and Shortcut
preferences, which are retrieved from the preferences file saved in
the object store.
- Configure user token settings.
User Tokens
are used by IBM FileNet P8 applications
to launch into each other without the need for an additional login.
You can specify a Token timeout interval (1 - 15 minutes) for Workplace XT.
- (Required) Specify preference settings.
Preference
settings specify the name of the site preference file, its storage
location (object store), and the documentation server URL (if installed).
The site preferences file is checked into the object store the first
time you log on to Workplace XT. The site preferences are stored as XML data in this file, Site Preferences for Preferences name.xml. Use Enterprise Manager to access
this file, and navigate to .
The bootstrap preferences are saved in the bootstrap.properties file, and not in the site preferences
file. The default location for this file is AE_install_path/FileNet/Config/AE.
- Select an object store from the Object store
location choice list. The preferences file will be saved
in this object store. Workplace users must have access to this
object store.
- Enter a preference file name in the Preferences
name field.
- Enter the documentation server URL in the Documentation server field.
The format
of the URL depends on the documentation package you use:
Table 1. Documentation URLsFileNet P8 documentation package |
URL |
Online information center at www.ibm.com |
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/p8docs/v5r2m0/topic/com.ibm.p8.xt.user.doc |
Installed P8 information center |
http://server_name:port#/application_name/topic/com.ibm.p8.xt.user.docwhere: - server_name is the name of the server where
the FileNet P8
Platform documentation
information center is installed.
- port# is the port number.
- application_name is the name of the deployed FileNet P8
Platform application. If you have
installed a local information center, the application name is typically
p8docs.
|
- Add Application Engine Administrators (ae_admin_user). Add
the users and groups that will perform Workplace XT administration tasks to
the Application Engine Administrators
role.
The user who initially signs in and sets the bootstrap preferences
is automatically added to the Application Engine Administrators role. For more information, see the IBM FileNet P8 help topic .
To modify
the access roles after the initial bootstrap configuration, users
with the Application Engine Administrators
role can use the access roles section of the Workplace Site Preferences. Launch Workplace XT and navigate to .
- Click Apply to save your bootstrap
settings.
After the initial bootstrap configuration, users with
the Application Engine Administrators
(ae_admin_user) role can change any of these preferences
by signing into Workplace XT and navigating to .
Bootstrap properties are stored in a separate
file from other site preferences. The default location for this file, bootstrap.properties, is install_path/IBM/FileNet/Config/WebClient.
In a web farm or
clustered environment, all Workplace XT installations share site preferences by using the same bootstrap.properties file. For more information, see the
FileNet P8 high availability technical overview section of the IBM
FileNet P8 Information Center.