Configuring your wireless environment

 

To ensure that the Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless run properly, you need to modify your web application server and firewall configuration.

Before you begin using Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless, ensure that you have properly configured or set up the following items:

1. Configure your Web application server Set up Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless to run using an ASF Jakarta Tomcat servlet engine. These instructions specify how to create and start your Web application server. In addition, it specifies a program that you need to run before working with the wireless function of Advanced Job Server.

2. Configure your firewall This topic describes how to configure your firewall for iSeries™ Navigator for Wireless. These configuration steps also apply to Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless. View this topic to determine if you need to modify your firewall to gain access to systems from a wireless device.

3. Select a language The default language is set to English, but you can configure your device to display your language of choice.

After you have completed these steps, you are ready to connect to your server and begin using Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless.

• Configuring your Web application server
  Before working with Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless, start and configure the Web application server. The following procedures set up an ASF Tomcat servlet engine for HTTP Server (powered by Apache) to run Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless.

• Configuring your firewall
  When you use iSeries Navigator for Wireless, you access your system from the Internet. If you have a firewall, you might have to modify your firewall setup to run iSeries Navigator for Wireless.

• Selecting a language
  When you connect to Advanced Job Scheduler for wireless, you can specify which language to use. If you do not want to specify a specific language, you can proceed to connecting to your system.

 

Parent topic:

Working with Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless

Related concepts
Hardware and software requirements Selecting a device Connecting to your i5/OS operating system Customizing your connection Managing Advanced Job Scheduler for Wireless