Configuring users for the web app on WebSphere Application Server

Configure the users for the web app on IBM® WebSphere® Application Server 8.x by using these steps.

Before you begin

You must install WebSphere Application Server 8.x, Rational® Publishing Engine, and the web application, and then deploy the web app before you can configure the users.

About this task

For more information about how user names and passwords are stored, see Security considerations for IBM Rational Publishing Engine.

The user roles should be defined for the rpeng application only, and not the dgaas application.

Review the web app roles:

Table 1. Web app user roles
Role Capabilities
End user (rpe_user)
  • Can generate documents from the web app
  • Can view output files and logs about their document generation jobs
  • Can schedule document generation
Report designer (rpe_report_designer)
  • Can upload templates and style sheets into the web app
  • Can assemble reports
  • Can define data source connections
  • Can mark reports as available or unavailable to other users
  • Can generate documents from the web app
  • Can view output files and logs about their document generation jobs
  • Can schedule document generation
Administrator (rpe_admin)
  • Can access the Administer menu option
  • Can monitor system health, view all running jobs, and assign runtime and environment variables
  • Can generate documents from the web app
  • Can upload templates and style sheets into the web app
  • Can assemble reports
  • Can define data source connections
  • Can generate documents from the web app
  • Can view output files and logs about their document generation jobs
  • Can schedule document generation

Procedure

  1. Open the administrative console in a browser. Example: http://server:port/ibm/console/logon.jsp
  2. Stop the deployed web application:
    1. Click Applications > Enterprise Applications. The com.ibm.rpe.web.app application you added is listed as the application name you entered.
    2. Select the web application.
    3. Click Stop.
  3. Configure the security roles:
    1. Click Users and Groups > Manage Users.
    2. Click Create and create three users: rpe_user, rpe_report_designer, and rpe_admin
      This is a screen capture of the Manage Users section of the administrative console for WebSphere Application Server.
    3. To associate roles with the users, navigate to Applications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications. In the Enterprise Applications table, click com.ibm.rpe.web.app link. Under the Detail Properties section, click Security role to user/group mapping link. These are the roles you can associate with the users for each of the services:
      • rpe_user
      • rpe_report_designer
      • rpe_admin

      This is a screen capture of the Security role to user/group mapping in the administrative console for WebSphere Application Server.

    4. Associate the user roles with the users.
      1. For rpe_user, add the rpe_user role.
      2. For rpe_admin, add the rpe_admin role.
      This is a screen capture of the Map users/groups page in the administrative console for WebSphere Application Server.
      This is a screen capture of the Security role to user/group mappings in administrative console for WebSphere Application Server.
    5. Click OK and Save directly to the master configuration.
  4. Start the web application:
    1. Click Applications > Enterprise Applications. The com.ibm.rpe.web.app application you added is listed as the application name you entered.
    2. Select the web application.
    3. Click Start. The following confirmation message displays: Application com.ibm.rpe.web.app on server server_name and node node_name started successfully.

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