IBM Knowledge Center is a graphical user interface that you can use to browse and search online documentation. You can run IBM Knowledge Center on a local system, or from a server where it can be accessed by using a shared URL.
Use the following instructions to start and stop IBM Knowledge Center, run it on a server to share with others, and to change the default port.
Start IBM Knowledge Center by running the following script from the KnowledgeCenter/bin directory :
After the server is started, IBM Knowledge Center is available at this default URL: http://localhost:9090/kc.
The first time that you start IBM Knowledge Center, you might have to wait a few minutes before the content is displayed.
Stop IBM Knowledge Center by running the following script from the KnowledgeCenter/bin directory :
If you have a server with an IP address that does not change, you can run IBM Knowledge Center from that server, and share the IBM Knowledge Center URL with other users in your organization. This option is useful if your users are restricted to access only URLs within the organization intranet and are unable to access IBM Knowledge Center on the IBM website.
After you have started IBM Knowledge Center, you can provide users with the IBM Knowledge Center URL.
The URL has the following format:
http://fully-qualified-hostname-or-IP:xxxx/kc
where xxxx is the port number.
The following examples indicate ways that you can specify the URLs:
http://myserver.abcdomain.com:9090/kc
http://1.23.456.789/:9090/kc
IBM Knowledge Center uses port 9090 as the default, but you can modify the properties file to use a different port.
To change the default port number, edit the KnowledgeCenter/etc/kc_ant.properties file and specify another available port number.