WebSphere Application Server v8 Primer

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1 Chapter 4 WebSphere Application Server v8 Primer By Joseph Amrith Raj

2 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 2 J O S E P H S W E B S P H E R E L I B R A R Y WebSphere Application Server v8 Primer, part-4: WebSphere Customization Toolbox WebSphere Library

3 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 3 Table of Contents 1.What is WebSphere Customization Toolbox [WCT] How to get and Install WCT A. Option B. Option Using Option Using WCT Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool [PCT] Profile Management Tool (Z/OS only) [PMT] Z/OS Migration Management Tool [MMT] About Author Connect With US... 24

4 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 4 1.What is WebSphere Customization Toolbox [WCT] The WebSphere Customization Toolbox includes tools for managing, configuring, and migrating various parts of your WebSphere Application Server environment. 2.How to get and Install WCT You can get and install WCT using the following two options 2A. Option1: Download IIM and WCT from the IBM website and use the local installation. More details on how to install using IIM can be found here. 2B. Option2: Install IBM Installation Manager [IIM] and install WCT from the repositories Using Option 2 First download and install IBM installation Manager [presently beta version] Start installation manager Click, File Preferences Repositories You should see in the list. This is for WCT

5 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 5 Now click OK and go back to IIM welcome page and then select Install

6 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 6 You will be asked for authentication, provide your IBM ID and password Installation manager searches in the repositories defined for available packages. Select WebSphere Customization Toolbox and click next

7 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 7 In the next steps, accept license then select the location to install Now on the features section, you can choose the following 3, as shown in the next screenshot

8 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 8 After making your selection, click next, check the summary and then proceed to install After successful installation, start the WCT On windows -> you can start it from all programs ->IBM websphere -> WCT Others -> start from the installation location You can use the WCT command line utility as well, which can be found under WCT_Install_root/WCT

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10 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 10 3.Using WCT 3.1.Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool [PCT] This tool allows you to configure your web server plug-ins on distributed operating systems. In simple terms this tool will create the webserver definitions for you. Below is the screenshot of the PCT First add runtime location by clicking Add. This will let you add a previously installed web server plug-in location to your working set.

11 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 11 Give name for the definition and the location of the plug-in configuration file and click finish Now lets create a new plug-in configuration Click on Create a web server configuration On the next screen select the web server type

12 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 12 On the next screen, give location of the http.conf file and http port number of the web server and click next In the next screen, specify a name for the web server definition

13 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 13 Here, select the configuration scenario, either remote or local based on where your websphere application server is present

14 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 14 Then select the WebSphere Application server profile to configure the web server plug-in and definition, verify the summery and click configure

15 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 15 Click finish and verify the details

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17 WebSphere Customization Toolbox Profile Management Tool (Z/OS only) [PMT] This tool creates customization definitions that are used to create or augment websphere application server runtime environments on remote systems. Processing the definitions results in the generation of customization jobs that you then run on the z/os system. Start PMT from WCT and add a customization location Then click on create this results in a window, where you can select the type of profile you like to create.

18 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 18 After you are done with creating the desired profile, come back to PMT and click on customization response file to see the generated response file

19 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 19 and click on customization Instructions for help on how to use the response file.

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21 WebSphere Customization Toolbox Z/OS Migration Management Tool [MMT] This tool creates migration definitions that are used to migrate a websphere application server for z/os node. The generated migration jobs must be uploaded to and run on the target zo/s system I m not explaining this toll as I do not have a zo/s node available

22 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 22 References 1. pm.imuc.doc%2ftopics%2ftins_zos_install_wct.html 2. re.installation.zseries.doc%2finfo%2fzseries%2fae%2ftins_wct.html 3. re.installation.zseries.doc%2finfo%2fzseries%2fae%2ftins_uninstallation_wct_silent.html

23 WebSphere Customization Toolbox 23 About Author Joseph Amrith Raj is a technical consultant for multiple WebSphere products. He worked on various product consulting and support teams including WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server. He has 7 years of experience in administration, troubleshooting, consulting and he has significant experience in architecture, strategy and leadership positions. He is IBM certified for WAS, WMQ, WPS, SOA and Cloud Computing.

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