Installing CES Administration Desktop

About Installing CES Administration Desktop

The CES Administration Desktop is used for data modeling tasks. You need to install the CES Administration Desktop before the user can work with the CES application.  The CES Administration Desktop can be installed manually, as explained here, or it can be installed automatically during CES installation. If you install CES Administration Desktop manually, you can install it in any war directory (<WAS_HOME>\profiles\,profile Name>\installedApps\<node name>\<ear directory>\<war directory>\<Admin Desktop directory>).

To install the CES Administration Desktop automatically, run SDMSetupUI. On the CES Setup tab of the CES Installation Wizard, check Yes in the Install CES Admin Desktop section. For more information, refer to the Deploying CES Application section of Installing CES.

After installation you must change the ExploreJavaServer.PORT value to the BOOTSTRAP_ADDRESS of the CES Server. For more information on this process, refer to Enabling the CES Administration Desktop. You must also update the virtual hosts using the Administration console, by specifying the http port of the CES Server as the default. The URL to launch the Admin Desktop is http://<hostname>:<CESServer> HTTP Port>/excalibur/CESAD/index.html. For more information, refer to Adding Virtual Hosts.

This task explains how to install the CES Administration Desktop manually:
  1. Set JAVA_HOME parameter to the 1.5 JAVA_HOME directory.

  2. Update the setup.properties file available under <installed_path>\<OS>\resources\sdm\exploreAD. This update needs to be done after installing the CES.

  3. Change the values as described in the table below:

    Variable...

    Action...

    Description
    RUN batch This indicates the installation mode. The value is always batch, do not change.

    APP_SERVER

    WebSphere60 This points to the version of the WebSphere being used.
    SERVER_DIR <WAS_HOME>\\profiles\\<profile Name>\\installedApps\\<node name>\\<ear directory>\\<war directory>\\<Admin Desktop directory>.

    Where,

    WAS_HOME is the installation directory of WebSphere 6.1.0.0 installed.

    profile Name is the WAS profile name.

    node_name represents the node of the profile.

    ear directory is the enterprise archive directory.

    war directory is the web application archive directory.

    Admin Desktop directory is the directory where Administration Desktop code is deployed. For example, CESAD.

    This points to the directory where the CES specific files are stored.
    SERVER_PORT <port_number> This is the default http port number. Contact your system administrator for the exact value.
    DB_CONFIG http://<host_name>:<http_port_number>/ <context_name>/xdapi.cfg This refers to the path of the xdapi.cfg file.
    HTML_FILE default_helper.html This refers to the default helper html file used by the Administration Desktop.
  4. Execute setup.bat for Windows, and for UNIX, execute setup.sh. This is available under <installed_path>\<OS>\resources\sdm\exploreAD. This deploys the CES Administration Desktop.