Install just the infrastructure for Connections portlets

Overview

If we are integrating IBM Connections and IBM WebSphere Portal using just the Social Rendering portlets, we can install just the infrastructure for the portlets.

This option is only available if we are deploying with IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 or higher.

Install infrastructure

1. Download the solution installer from the Greenhouse catalog. The PAA installer is already available on Portal 8.

2. Download the Portlets Archive Install file: SNPortlets.paa.
   cd wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine

3. Install the PAA...
   • This task can be run with the server running or stopped.
   • See Installation Options
   • Complete the installation steps on the primary node and then on all additional nodes.
   • Start all node agents are running during the installation.

   ./ConfigEngine.sh install-paa  \
                     -DPAALocation=[location-to-paa]/SNPortlets.paa  \
                     -DWasPassword=[was-admin-pwd]  \
                     -DPortalAdminPwd=[portal-admin-pwd]

4. Register the PAA.
   • Start the server before running this task.
   • See Installation Options
   • Complete the installation steps on the primary node and then on all additional nodes.

   ConfigEngine deploy-paa \
                -DappName=SNPortlets  \
                -DICinstallType=infra-only \
                -DICinstallType=full \
                -DWasPassword=[was-admin-pwd] 
   -DPortalAdminPwd=[portal-admin-pwd]

   If we are deploying to a clustered environment, and the PAA file contains XMLAccess script files, add the following two parameters to the deploy-paa task:

   • -DmaxTimeToWait
   • -DmaxAppTimeToWait

   These values define the time the wplc-wait-for-sync-to-complete task waits to synchronize the nodes.  The default values are...

   • -DmaxTimeToWait=30
   • -DmaxAppTimeToWait=5

     The values are in minutes.  If the clustered environment requires a longer synchronize time, add these parameters to the deploy-paa task with values that meet the requirements.

5. Configure the portlets infrastructure.
   • Start the server before running this task.
   • See Installation Options
   • Complete the installation steps on the primary node and then on all additional nodes.

   Run:

   ConfigEngine configure-SNPortletsInfra \
                -DICversion=5.0 \
                -DICbaseURLunsecured=[baseURLunsecured] \
                -DICbaseURL=[baseURL] \
                -DWasPassword=[was-admin-pwd] \
                -DPortalAdminPwd=[portal-admin-pwd] 

   For example:

   ConfigEngine configure-SNPortletsInfra \
                -DICversion=5.0 \
                -DICbaseURLunsecured=http://connections.myco.com \
                -DICbaseURL=https://connections.myco.com  \
                -DWasPassword=[was-admin-pwd] \
                -DPortalAdminPwd=[portal-admin-pwd] 

6. Restart the server

7. Resynchronize the nodes.

See

Installation options for infrastructure-only installation

Parent topic:
Installation Scenarios