WebSphere brand IBM WebSphere Premises Server, Version 6.1.x

Managing your configuration

This section describes how to create and manage configuration groups for controllers, locations, and devices within your WebSphere® Premises Server infrastructure using the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console and Data Capture and Delivery.

Use the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console to define and manage configuration groups that define the infrastructure components of the product. Configuration groups help you manage controllers, locations, agents, and devices (Bartender and Loftware logical printers, readers, and simulated reader) as part of a group instead of individually.

Configuration groups

WebSphere Premises Server offers three configuration group types: location type, controller type, and device type. Each configuration group type in the product defines a set of one or more agents with their configurations and a set of zero or more configuration group metadata properties. After you define a configuration group type, you assign agents and their configurations to it and then define the metadata to store with that configuration group. Configuration group and category metadata display on the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console; however, you define and manage the metadata through the XML configuration file that you import.
Note: The WebSphere Premises Server imports metadata files based on the Metatype Service Specification as defined within the OSGi Service Platform - Service Compendium, Release 4, August 2005 that is distributed by the OSGi Foundation. For additional information, go to www.osgi.org.

The product, by default, comes with several preset location configuration groups. One location configuration group is called Enhanced Dock Door Receiving. This location configuration group type contains all the agents that are part of the enhanced dock door receiving usage scenario along with the correct agent configurations. What this means is that an agent can exist in the system with different configurations for different configuration groups. In addition, you can associate each configuration group with a category. For example, you can create a device configuration group called Sirit. You then assign this configuration group, Sirit, to the category reader. Each category also has its own set of metadata properties.

You use the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console to implement and manage configuration groups. You can also import an XML document into the WebSphere Premises Server. The XML document enables you to create, update, and delete various product configuration groups and configuration group types.

For additional information about device, location, and controller configuration groups, refer to the topics below:

Configuring using the console or an XML file

You can perform the following functions using either the WebSphere Premises Server Administrative Console or the XML configuration file:
  • Create, edit, and delete new location, controller, and device configuration groups.
  • Create, edit, and delete locations, controllers, and devices (for readers, logical printers, and simulated readers).
  • Assign locations to location configuration groups.
  • Assign devices to device configuration groups.
  • Assign controllers to controller configuration groups.
  • Create, edit, and delete agents and agent properties for Data Capture and Delivery.
  • Assign agents and their configurations to a configuration group.
You can perform the following functions only using the imported configuration XML file:
  • Create new categories, and update and delete categories and category metadata.
  • Create, update, and delete configuration group metadata.

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