Allow Web servers to access the admin console

 

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Web server ports must be higher than 1023 for the dmgr to stop and start a Web server process on a non-root node agent. Otherwise the node agent must be running as root.

The plug-ins installation wizard creates a Web server definition on the appserver system, either directly when the web and app servers are on the same machine, or by a script when web and app servers are on separate machines.

After creating the Web server definition in the admin console, the plug-in configuration file exists within the Web server definition.

When plugin-cfg.xml is generated, it does not include admin_host on the list of virtual hosts. To configure the admin_host so that Web servers can access the admin console.

1. Use the admin console to change the admin_host virtual host group to include the Web server port.

   1. Go to...

      Environment | Virtual Host | admin_host | Host Aliases | New

      The default port 80.

   2. Specify the IP address, or the name of the machine that is hosting the HTTP server.

2. Click Apply > Save.

3. Stop and restart the appserver.

   Stand-alone appserver...

   cd $WP_PROFILE/bin
   ./stopServer.sh server1
   ./startServer.sh server1

   Dmgr...

   cd $WP_PROFILE/bin
   ./stopManager.sh
   ./startManager.sh

4. Edit plugin-cfg.xml to include...

   <VirtualHostGroup Name="admin_host">
       <VirtualHost Name="*:9060"/>
       <VirtualHost Name="*:80"/>
       <VirtualHost Name="*:9043"/>
   </VirtualHostGroup>
   
   <ServerCluster Name="server1_s1host_s1cluster">
   
       <Server LoadBalanceWeight="1" 
               Name="s1host_server1_dmgr">
   
           <Transport Hostname="s1host_" 
                      Port="9060" 
                      Protocol="http"/>
   
       </Server>
       
       <PrimaryServers>
           <Server Name="s1host_server1_dmgr"/>
       </PrimaryServers>
   </ServerCluster>
   ...
   ...
   ...
   <UriGroup Name="admin_host_server1_s1host_s1cluster_URIs">
   
       <Uri AffinityCookie="JSESSIONID"
            AffinityURLIdentifier="jsessionid" 
            Name="/ibm/console/*"/>
   
   </UriGroup>
   
   <Route ServerCluster="server1_s1host_s1cluster"
          UriGroup="admin_host_server1_s1host_s1cluster_URIs" 
          VirtualHostGroup="admin_host"/>
   

   If the HTTP server has an HTTP port other than 80, add an entry to the VirtualHostGroup:

   <VirtualHost Name="*:HTTP_server_port"/>