0 Working with Trade3.1

The last step is to verify the Trade3.1 installation. First test if Trade3 runs on your appserver without using the entire topology, that is using the embedded HTTP transport of your application server.

Open the Trade3.1 start page using the following URL (the port number depends on your configuration): 

http://<host_name>:9080/trade

In our environment, the URL is: 

http://app1.itso.ibm.com:9080/trade

If this works, then in a second step test using the whole topology, that is, through the Caching Proxy, Load Balancer, and Web server cluster using: 

http://<your_caching_proxy>/trade

In our environment, the URL is: 

http://cproxy.itso.ibm.com/trade/

Note cproxy.itso.ibm.com resolves to the IP address of our caching proxy (10.20.10.101). The caching proxy then points to the Web server cluster (10.20.10.100) associated with the Load Balancer machine (10.20.10.101).

This will display the Trade3.1 index page as shown in Figure 7-40.

Figure 7-40 Trade3.1 index page

Before you can start using the Trade3.1 application, you first have to populate the database:

1. Click the Configuration link on the left-hand side of the Trade3.1 index page.

2. In the Configuration utilities window, click (Re-)populate Trade Database. Wait until the database population has been completed.

3. Before closing the window, review the default Trade3.1 configuration and click the Update Config button.

4. After populating the database, run the following DB2 commands to update DB2 statistics:

db2 connect to Trade3db user <db_user> using <password>

db2 reorgchk update statistics

This will improve DB2 performance.

5. Click the Go Trade! link on the left-hand side of the Trade3.1 index page. You will be forwarded to the Trade3.1 login page shown in Figure 7-41.

6. Click the Log in button and start to use the Trade3.1 application.

Figure 7-41 Trade3.1 Login page

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