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 rolesRole |
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
- Open the administrative console in a browser. Example: http://server:port/ibm/console/logon.jsp
- Stop the deployed web application:
- Click . The com.ibm.rpe.web.app application you
added is listed as the application name you entered.
- Select the web application.
- Click Stop.
- Configure the security roles:
- Click .
- Click Create and
create three users: rpe_user, rpe_report_designer,
and rpe_admin
- To associate roles with the users, navigate to .
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
- Associate the user roles with the users.
- For rpe_user, add the rpe_user role.
- For rpe_report_designer, add the rpe_report_designer role.
- For rpe_admin, add the rpe_admin role.
- Click OK and Save directly
to the master configuration.
- Start the web application:
- Click . The com.ibm.rpe.web.app application
you added is listed as the application name you entered.
- Select the web application.
- Click Start. The following confirmation message displays: Application com.ibm.rpe.web.app on
server server_name and node node_name started
successfully.