Video: Setting up Admin Center

The following transcript is for the "Setting up Admin Center" video, which demonstrates how to configure a server.xml file to enable Admin Center. This transcript is the video storyboard. Audio describes narration and captions. Onscreen Action describes the content shown in the video.

Video Setting up Admin Center

Table 1. Demo setting up Admin Center in Liberty. Show server.xml changes.
Scene Audio Onscreen Action
1 This video shows how to enable Liberty Admin Center and get to the login page. Enabling Admin Center is quick and easy. Show Liberty Admin Center login page in web browser.
2 You need a Liberty Version 8.5.5.2 or later installation. Make a few changes to the server.xml file of a server and you can use the Admin Center. In Windows Explorer, show wlp/usr Liberty installation directory with no server defined.
3 I have just installed Liberty. To add a server, I go to a command prompt at the wlp/bin directory and run:
server create myServer
This creates a server named myServer.
Show command window open at wlp/bin, run server create myServer, and then show message
Server myServer created.
4 The server.xml file is in the usr/servers/myServer directory. I want to make 4 changes to this server.xml file. In Windows Explorer, select wlp/usr/servers/myServer directory. Select server.xml.
5 First, I add the adminCenter-1.0 feature to the feature manager. In editor open on server.xml, add the adminCenter-1.0 feature to the feature manager:
<featureManager>
  <feature>jsp-2.2</feature>
  <feature>adminCenter-1.0</feature>
</featureManager>
Important: Do not specify <feature>jsp-2.2</feature>. Admin Center no longer requires the JSP feature in the feature manager. Admin Center automatically brings in a compatible JSP feature. When this video was made, jsp-2.2 was required. Now, if you specify <feature>jsp-2.2</feature> but another feature in your configuration needs a later JSP version, your configuration might not behave as expected.
<featureManager>
  <feature>adminCenter-1.0</feature>
</featureManager>
6 Second, I add a quickStartSecurity element and specify a user name and password to configure a secure login. My user name is admin and my password is adminpwd. In editor, add user name and password:
<quickStartSecurity userName="admin" 
userPassword="adminpwd" />
7 Third, I add a keyStore element to protect keystore files that have server authentication credentials. I choose defaultKeyStore for the id attribute and Liberty for the password attribute. In editor, add keystore:
<keyStore id="defaultKeyStore" 
password="Liberty" />
8 Fourth, I add a host attribute set to asterisk to the httpEndpoint element. Setting host to asterisk, or to a defined host name, lets me view Admin Center on a cell phone, tablet, and remote computer, and not just on this localhost computer. In editor, press enter after id="defaultHttpEndpoint" in the httpEndpoint element and add host="*" to the new line:
<httpEndpoint id="defaultHttpEndpoint"
              host="*"
              httpPort="9080"
              httpsPort="9443" />
9 Save the server.xml changes. In editor, save changes.
10 Make these server.xml changes for every Liberty server and collective controller that you want to be able to view in Admin Center.

In a multiple-server environment, you only need to make these changes to the server.xml file of a collective controller. You do not need to change the server.xml files of members.

In editor, continue to show server.xml.
Table 2. Displaying Admin Center. Show starting the server, highlighting the adminCenter URL, and pointing a browser at the URL.
Scene Audio Onscreen Action
11 I am now ready to start myServer and see Admin Center. Because I want messages shown in the foreground, I use the run command. I enter:
server run myServer
To not show the messages, I would enter:
server start myServer
In command window on wlp/bin directory, enter server run myServer. The command runs and product messages display in the command window.
12 Liberty writes status messages to the command window. One message has the URL for the adminCenter web application. Highlight http://host_name:9080/adminCenter/ URL in messages.
13 I put this URL into a web browser, and press Enter. The URL changes to https and port 9443 because I specified a secure connection in the server.xml file. Add URL http://host_name:9080/adminCenter/ to browser, press Enter, show URL change to https://host_name:9443/adminCenter/.
14 You might need to add a browser exception to confirm that the connection is trusted. Show Firefox dialog and button selections Add Exception, Get Certificate, and then Confirm Security Exception.
15 I am now ready to log in to Admin Center. Show Liberty Admin Center login page.
Table 3. Conclusion. Show where to find more information about Admin Center.
Scene Audio Onscreen Action
16 For information on logging into and using Admin Center, and viewing your personal Toolbox, see WASdev.net and the WebSphere Application Server Liberty documentation on IBM Knowledge Center. Show Liberty Admin Center login page with login fields and title covered by information on documentation:
WASdev
http://developer.ibm.com/wasdev
WebSphere Application Server Liberty documentation on IBM Knowledge Center
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/
Fade the information on documentation and end by showing just the Liberty Admin Center login page.

For more information, see Administering Liberty using Admin Center.


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