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Install MobileFirst Server in graphical mode

Use the graphical mode of IBM® Installation Manager and the Server Configuration Tool to install MobileFirst Server.


Before you begin

  1. Make sure that one of the following databases and a supported Java™ version are installed. You also need the corresponding JDBC driver for the database to be available on your computer:

    • Database Management System (DBMS) from the list of supported database:

      • DB2®

      • MySQL

      • Oracle

      Important:

      You must have a database where you can create the tables that are needed by the product, and a database user who can create tables in that database.

      In the tutorial, the steps to create the tables are for DB2. We can find the DB2 installer as a package of IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation eAssembly on IBM Passport Advantage®.

    • JDBC driver for our database.

      • For DB2, use the DB2 JDBC driver type 4.

      • For MySQL, use the Connector/J JDBC driver.

      • For Oracle, use the Oracle thin JDBC driver.

    • Java 7 or later.

  2. Download the installer of IBM Installation Manager V1.8.4 or later from Installation Manager and Packaging Utility download links.

  3. You must also have the installation repository of the MobileFirst Server and the installer of WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Core V8.5.5.3 or later. Download these packages from the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation eAssembly on Passport Advantage:

      MobileFirst Server installation repository
      IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation V8.0 .zip file of Installation Manager Repository for IBM MobileFirst Platform Server
      WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile
      IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty Core V8.5.5.3 or later

We can run the installation in graphical mode if you are on one of the following operating systems:

On other operating systems, we can still run the installation with Installation Manager in graphical mode, but the Server Configuration Tool is not available. We need to use Ant tasks (as described in Install MobileFirst Server in command line mode) to deploy MobileFirst Server to Liberty profile.

Note: The instruction to install and set up the database is not part of this tutorial. If we want to run this tutorial without installing a stand-alone database, we can use the embedded Derby database. However, the restrictions for using this database are as follows:

This tutorial goes through the following steps:

  1. Install IBM Installation Manager

  2. Install WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core

  3. Install MobileFirst Server

  4. Create a database

  5. Run the Server Configuration Tool

  6. Testing the installation

  7. Create a farm of two Liberty servers that run MobileFirst Server

  8. Testing the farm and see the changes in MobileFirst Operations Console

Parent topic: Tutorials about MobileFirst Server installation


Install IBM Installation Manager

You must install Installation Manager V1.8.4 or later. The older versions of Installation Manager are not able to install IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation V8.0 because the postinstallation operations of the product require Java 7. The older versions of Installation Manager come with Java 6.


Procedure

  1. Extract the IBM Installation Manager archive that is downloaded. We can find the installer at Installation Manager and Packaging Utility download links.

  2. Install Installation Manager.

    • Run install.exe to install Installation Manager as administrator. Root is needed on Linux or UNIX. On Windows, the administrator privilege is needed. In this mode, the information about the installed packages is placed in a shared location on the disk and any user that is allowed to run Installation Manager can update the applications.

    • Run userinst.exe to install Installation Manager in user mode. No specific privilege is needed. However, in this mode, the information about the installed packages are placed in the user's home directory. Only that user can update the applications that are installed with Installation Manager.


Install WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core

The installer for WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core is provided as part of the package for IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation. In this task, Liberty profile is installed and a server instance is created so that we can install MobileFirst Server on it.


Procedure

  1. Extract the compressed file for WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core that you downloaded.

  2. Launch Installation Manager.

  3. Add the repository in Installation Manager.

    1. Go to File > Preferences and click Add Repositories....

    2. Browse for the repository.config file of diskTag.inf file in the directory where the installer is extracted.

    3. Select the file and click OK.

    4. Click OK to close the Preferences panel.

  4. Click Install to install Liberty.

    1. Select IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core and click Next.

    2. Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.

  5. In the scope of this tutorial, do not need to install the additional assets when asked. Click Install for the installation process to start.

    • If the installation is successful, the program displays a message indicating that installation is successful. The program might also display important postinstallation instructions.

    • If the installation is not successful, click View Log File to troubleshoot the problem.

  6. Move the usr directory that contains the servers in a location that does not need specific privileges.

    If you install Liberty with Installation Manager in administrator mode, the files are in a location where non-administrator or non-root users cannot modify the files. For the scope of this tutorial, move the usr directory that contains the servers in a place that does not need specific privileges. In this way, the installation operations can be done without specific privileges.

    1. Go to the installation directory of Liberty.

    2. Create a directory named etc. We need administrator or root privileges.

    3. In etc directory, create a server.env file with the following content: 

        WLP_USER_DIR=<path to a directory where any user can write>

      For example, on Windows: 

        WLP_USER_DIR=C:\LibertyServers\usr

  7. Create a Liberty server that will be used to install the first node of MobileFirst Server at the later part of the tutorial.

    1. Start a command line.

    2. Go to liberty_install_dir/bin, and enter server create mfp1.

      This command creates a Liberty server instance named mfp1. We can see its definition at liberty_install_dir/usr/servers/mfp1 or WLP_USER_DIR/servers/mfp1 (if you modify the directory as described in step 6).


Results

After the server is created, we can start this server with server start mfp1 from liberty_install_dir/bin/.

To stop the server, enter the command: server stop mfp1 from liberty_install_dir/bin/.

The default home page can be viewed at http://localhost:9080.

Note: For production, you need to make sure that the Liberty server is started as a service when the host computer starts. Making the Liberty server start as a service is not part of this tutorial.


Install MobileFirst Server


Before you begin

Make sure that Installation Manager V1.8.4 or later is installed. The installation of MobileFirst Server might not succeed with an older version of Installation Manager because the postinstallation operations require Java 7. The older versions of Installation Manager come with Java 6.

Run Installation Manager to install the binary files of MobileFirst Server on your disk before you create the databases and deploy MobileFirst Server to Liberty profile. During the installation of MobileFirst Server with Installation Manager, an option is proposed to you to install IBM MobileFirst Platform Application Center. Application Center is a different component of the product. For this tutorial, it is not required to be installed with MobileFirst Server. For more information about Application Center, see Install and configure the Application Center.


Procedure

  1. Launch Installation Manager.

  2. Add the repository of MobileFirst Server in Installation Manager.

    1. Go to File > Preferences and click Add Repositories....

    2. Browse for the repository file in the directory where the installer is extracted.

      If you decompress the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation V8.0 .zip file for MobileFirst Server in mfp_installer_directory folder, the repository file can be found at mfp_installer_directory/MobileFirst_Platform_Server/disk1/diskTag.inf.

      You might also want to apply the latest fix pack that can be downloaded from IBM Support Portal. Make sure to enter the repository for the fix pack. If you decompress the fix pack in fixpack_directory folder, the repository file is found in fixpack_directory/MobileFirst_Platform_Server/disk1/diskTag.inf.

      Note: We cannot install the fix pack without the repository of the base version in the repositories of Installation Manager. The fix packs are incremental installers and need the repository of the base version to be installed.

    3. Select the file and click OK.

    4. Click OK to close the Preferences panel.

  3. After accepting the license terms of the product, click Next.

  4. Select the Create a new package group option to install the product in that new package group.

  5. Click Next.

  6. Select Do not activate token licensing with the Rational License Key Server option in the Activate token licensing section of the General settings panel.

    In this tutorial, it is assumed that token licensing is not needed and the steps to configure MobileFirst Server for token licensing are not included. However, for production installation, we must determine whether you need to activate token licensing or not. If you have a contract to use token licensing with Rational® License Key Server, select Activate token licensing with the Rational License Key Server option. After you activate token licensing, we must do extra steps to configure MobileFirst Server. For more information, see Install and configure for token licensing.

  7. Keep the default option (No) as-is in the Install IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation for iOS section of the General settings panel.

  8. Select No option in the Choose configuration panel so that Application Center is not installed. For production installation, use Ant tasks to install Application Center. The installation with Ant tasks enables you to decouple the updates to MobileFirst Server from the updates to Application Center. For more information about installing Application Center, see Install and configure the Application Center.

  9. Click Next until you reach the Thank You panel. Then, proceed with the installation.


Results

An installation directory that contains the resources to install MobileFirst components is installed.

We can find the resources in the following folders:

The goal of this tutorial is to install MobileFirst Server by using the resources in MobileFirstServer folder.

We can also find some shortcuts for the Server Configuration Tool, Ant, and mfpadm program in the shortcuts folder.


Create a database

This task is to ensure that a database exists in your DBMS, and that a user is allowed to use the database, create tables in it, and use the tables.

The database is used to store the technical data that is used by the various MobileFirst components:

In this tutorial, the tables for all the components are placed under the same schema. The Server Configuration Tool creates the tables in the same schema. For more flexibility, you might want to use Ant tasks or a manual installation.

Note: The steps in this task are for DB2. If you plan to use MySQL or Oracle, see Database requirements.


Procedure

  1. Log on to the computer that is running the DB2 server. It is assumed that a DB2 user, for example named as mfpuser, exists.

  2. Verify that this DB2 user has the access to a database with a page size 32768 or more, and is allowed to create implicit schemas and tables in that database.

    By default, this user is a user declared on the operating system of the computer that runs DB2. That is, a user with a login for that computer. If such user exists, the next action in step 3 is not needed. In the later part of the tutorial, the Server Configuration Tool creates all the tables required by the product under a schema in that database.

  3. Create a database with the correct page size for this installation if you do not have one.

    1. Open a session with a user that has SYSADM or SYSCTRL permissions. For example, use the user db2inst1 that is the default admin user that is created by the DB2 installer.

    2. Open a DB2 command line processor:

      • On Windows systems, click Start > IBM DB2 > Command Line Processor.

      • On Linux or UNIX systems, go to ~/sqllib/bin (or db2_install_dir/bin if sqllib is not created in the administrator's home directory) and enter ./db2.

    3. Enter the following SQL statements to create a database that is called MFPDATA: 

        CREATE DATABASE MFPDATA COLLATE USING SYSTEM PAGESIZE 32768
CONNECT TO MFPDATA
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE TO USER mfpuser
GRANT CREATETAB ON DATABASE TO USER mfpuser
GRANT IMPLICIT_SCHEMA ON DATABASE TO USER mfpuser
DISCONNECT MFPDATA
QUIT

      If you defined a different user name, replace mfpuser with your own user name.

      Note: The statement does not remove the default privileges granted to PUBLIC in a default DB2 database. For production, you might need to reduce the privileges in that database to the minimum requirement for the product. For more information about DB2 security and an example of the security practices, see DB2 security, Part 8: Twelve DB2 security best practices.


Run the Server Configuration Tool

We use the Server Configuration Tool to run the following operations:

The Server Configuration Tool does not deploy the following MobileFirst applications:


Procedure

  1. Start the Server Configuration Tool.

    • On Linux, from application shortcuts Applications > IBM MobileFirst Platform Server > Server Configuration Tool.

    • On Windows, click Start > Programs > IBM MobileFirst Platform Server > Server Configuration Tool.

    • On Mac OS, open a shell console. Go to mfp_server_install_dir/shortcuts and type ./configuration-tool.sh.

      The mfp_server_install_dir directory is where you installed MobileFirst Server.

  2. Select File > New Configuration... to create a MobileFirst Server Configuration.

  3. Name the configuration Hello MobileFirst and click OK.

  4. Leave the default entries of Configuration Details as-is and click Next.

    In this tutorial, the environment ID is not used. It is a feature for advanced deployment scenario. An example of such scenario would be installing multiple instances of MobileFirst Server and administration service in the same application server or WebSphere Application Server cell.

  5. Keep the default context root for the administration service and the runtime component.

  6. Do not change the default entries in the Console Settings panel and click Next to install MobileFirst Operations Console with the default context root.

  7. Select IBM DB2 as a database and click Next.

  8. In the DB2 Database Settings panel, complete the details:

    1. Enter the host name that runs your DB2 server. If it is running on your computer, we can enter localhost.

    2. Change the port number if the DB2 instance you plan to use is not listening to the default port (50000).

    3. Enter the path to the DB2 JDBC driver. For DB2, the file that is named as db2jcc4.jar is expected. It is also needed to have the db2jcc_license_cu.jar file in the same directory. In a standard DB2 distribution, these files are found in db2_install_dir/java.

    4. Click Next.
    If the DB2 server cannot be reached with the credentials that are entered, the Server Configuration Tool disables the Next button and displays an error. The Next button is also disabled if the JDBC driver does not contain the expected classes. If everything is correct, the Next button is enabled.

  9. In the DB2 Additional Settings panel, complete the details:

    1. Enter mfpuser as DB2 user name and its password. Use your own DB2 user name if it is not mfpuser.

    2. Enter MFPDATA as the name of the database.

    3. Leave MFPDATA as the schema in which the tables will be created. Click Next. By default, Server Configuration Tool proposes the value MFPDATA.

  10. Do not enter any values in the Database Creation Request panel and click Next.

    This pane is used when the database that is entered in the previous pane does not exist on the DB2 server. In that case, we can enter the user name and password of the DB2 administrator. The Server Configuration Tool opens an ssh session to the DB2 server and runs the commands as described in Create a database to create the database with default settings and the correct page size.

  11. In the Application Server Selection panel, select WebSphere Application Server option and click Next.

  12. In the Application Server Settings panel, complete the details:

    1. Enter the installation directory for WebSphere Application Server Liberty.

    2. Select the server where you plan to install the product in the server name field. Select mfp1 server that is created in step 7 of Install WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core.

    3. Leave the Create a user option selected with its default values.

      This option creates a user in the basic registry of the Liberty server, so that we can sign in to MobileFirst Operations Console or to the administration service. For a production installation, do not use this option and configure the security roles of the applications after the installation as described in Configure user authentication for MobileFirst Server administration.

    4. Select the Server farm deployment option for the deployment type.

    5. Click Next.

  13. Select Install the Push service option.

    When the push service is installed, HTTP or HTTPS flows are needed from the administration service to the push service, and from the administration service and the push service to the runtime component.

  14. Select Have the Push and Authorization Service URLs computed automatically option.

    When this option is selected, the Server Configuration Tool configures the applications to connect to the applications installed on the same server. When we use a cluster, enter the URL used to connect to the services from your HTTP load balancer. When we install on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, it is mandatory to enter a URL manually.

  15. Keep the default entries of Credentials for secure communication between the Administration and the Push service as-is.

    A client ID and a password are needed to register the push service and the administration service as the confidential OAuth clients for the authorization server (which is by default, the runtime component). The Server Configuration Tool generates an ID and a random password for each of the service, that we can keep as-is for this getting started tutorial.

  16. Click Next.

  17. Keep the default entries of Analytics Setting panel as-is.

    To enable the connection to the Analytics server, you need to first install MobileFirst Analytics. However, the installation is not in the scope of this tutorial.

  18. Click Deploy.


Results

We can see a detail of the operations done in Console Window.

An Ant file is saved. The Server Configuration Tool helps you create an Ant file for installing and updating your configuration. This Ant file can be exported by using File > Export Configuration as Ant Files... . For more information about this Ant file, see Deploy MobileFirst Server to Liberty with Ant tasks in Install MobileFirst Server in command line mode.

Then, the Ant file is run and does the following operations:

  1. The tables for the following components are created in the database:

    • The administration service and the live update service. Created by the admdatabases Ant target.

    • The runtime. Created by the rtmdatabases Ant target.

    • The push service. Created by the pushdatabases Ant target.

  2. The WAR files of the various components are deployed to Liberty server. We can see the details of the operations in the log under adminstall, rtminstall, and pushinstall targets.

If you have access to the DB2 server, we can list the tables that are created by using these instructions:

  1. Open a DB2 command line processor with mfpuser as described in step 3 of Create a database.

  2. Enter the SQL statements: 

      CONNECT TO MFPDATA USER mfpuser USING mfpuser_password
LIST TABLES FOR SCHEMA MFPDATA
DISCONNECT MFPDATA
QUIT

Take note of the following database factors:

The server.xml file and some application server setting are modified during the installation. Before each modification, a copy of the server.xml file is made, such as server.xml.bak, server.xml.bak1, and server.xml.bak2. To see everything that was added, we can compare the server.xml file with the oldest backup (server.xml.bak). On Linux, we can use the command diff --strip-trailing-cr server.xml server.xml.bak to see the differences. On AIX®, use the command diff server.xml server.xml.bak to find the differences.


Testing the installation

After the installation is complete, we can use this procedure to test the components that are installed.


Procedure

  1. Start the server by using the command server start mfp1. The binary file for the server is in liberty_install_dir/bin.

  2. Test MobileFirst Operations Console with a web browser.

    Go to http://localhost:9080/mfpconsole. By default, the server runs on port 9080. However, we can verify the port in the element <httpEndpoint> as defined in the server.xml file. A login screen is displayed.

    MobileFirst Operations Console login page

  3. Log in with admin/admin.

    This user is created by default by the Server Configuration Tool.

    Note: If you connect with HTTP, the login ID and password are sent in clear text in the network. For a secure login, use HTTPS to log to the server. We can see the HTTPS port of the Liberty server in the httpsPort attribute of the <httpEndpoint> element in the server.xml file. By default, the value is 9443.

  4. Log out of the console with Hello Admin > Sign Out.

  5. Enter the following URL: https://localhost:9443/mfpconsole in the web browser and accept the certificate.

    By default, the Liberty server generates a default certificate that is not known by your web browser, you need to accept the certificate. Mozilla Firefox presents this certification as a security exception.

  6. Log in again with admin/admin.

    The login and password are encrypted between your web browser and MobileFirst Server. In production, you might want to close the HTTP port.


Create a farm of two Liberty servers that run MobileFirst Server

In this task, you will create a second Liberty server that runs the same MobileFirst Server and connected to the same database. In production, you might use more than one server for performance reasons, to have enough servers to serve the number of transactions per second that is needed for our mobile applications at peak time. It is also for high availability reasons to avoid having a single point of failure.

When we have more than one server that runs MobileFirst Server, the servers must be configured as a farm. This configuration enables any administration service to contact all the runtimes of a farm. If the cluster is not configured as a farm, only the runtime that runs in the same application server as the management service that runs the management operation is notified. Others runtimes are not aware of the change. For example, you deploy a new version of an adapter in a cluster that is not configured as a farm, only one server would serve the new adapter. The other servers would continue to serve the old adapter. The only situation where we can have a cluster and do not need to configure a farm is when you install your servers on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. The administration service is able to find all the servers by querying the JMX beans with the deployment manager. The deployment manager must be running to allow management operations because it is used to provide the list of the MobileFirst JMX beans of the cell.

When we create a farm, you also need to configure an HTTP server to send queries to all the members of the farm. The configuration of an HTTP server is not included in this tutorial. This tutorial is only about configuring the farm so that management operations are replicated to all the runtime components of the cluster.


Procedure

  1. Create a second Liberty server on the same computer.

    1. Start a command line.

    2. Go to liberty_install_dir/bin, and enter server create mfp2.

  2. Modify the HTTP and HTTPS ports of the server mfp2 so that they do not conflict with the ports of server mfp1.

    1. Go to the second server directory.

      The directory is liberty_install_dir/usr/servers/mfp2 or WLP_USER_DIR/servers/mfp2 (if you modify the directory as described in step 6 of Install WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core).

    2. Edit the server.xml file. Replace 

        <httpEndpoint id="defaultHttpEndpoint"
    httpPort="9080"
    httpsPort="9443" />

      with 

        <httpEndpoint id="defaultHttpEndpoint"
    httpPort="9081"
    httpsPort="9444" />

      The HTTP and HTTPS ports of the server mfp2 do not conflict with the ports of the server mfp1 with this change. Make sure to modify the ports before you run the installation of MobileFirst Server. Otherwise, if you modify the port after the installation is made, you also need to reflect the change of the port in the JNDI property: mfp.admin.jmx.port.

  3. Run the Server Configuration Tool.

    1. Create a configuration Hello MobileFirst 2.

    2. Do the same installation procedure as described in Run the Server Configuration Tool but select mfp2 as the application server. Use the same database and same schema.

      Note:

      • If we use an environment ID for server mfp1 (not suggested in the tutorial), the same environment ID must be used for server mfp2.

      • If you modify the context root for some applications, use the same context root for server mfp2. The servers of a farm must be symmetric.

      • If you create a default user (admin/admin), create the same user in the server mfp2.

    The Ant tasks detect that the databases exist and do not create the tables (see the following log extract). Then, the applications are deployed to the server. 

      [configuredatabase] Checking connectivity to MobileFirstAdmin database MFPDATA with schema 'MFPDATA' and user 'mfpuser'...
[configuredatabase] Database MFPDATA exists.
[configuredatabase] Connection to MobileFirstAdmin database MFPDATA with schema 'MFPDATA' and user 'mfpuser' succeeded.
[configuredatabase] Getting the version of MobileFirstAdmin database MFPDATA...
[configuredatabase] Table MFPADMIN_VERSION exists, checking its value...
[configuredatabase] GetSQLQueryResult => MFPADMIN_VERSION = 8.0.0
[configuredatabase] Configuring MobileFirstAdmin database MFPDATA...
[configuredatabase] The database is in latest version (8.0.0), no upgrade required.
[configuredatabase] Configuration of MobileFirstAdmin database MFPDATA succeeded.

  4. Test the two servers with HTTP connection.

    1. Open a web browser.

    2. Enter the following URL: http://localhost:9080/mfpconsole. The console is served by server mfp1.

    3. Log in with admin/admin.

    4. Open a tab in the same web browser and enter the URL: http://localhost:9081/mfpconsole. The console is served by server mfp2.

    5. Log in with admin/admin. If the installation is done correctly, we can see the same welcome page in both tabs after login.

    6. Return to first browser tab and click Hello, admin > Download Audit Log. You are logged out of the console and see the login screen again.

      This logout behavior is an issue. The problem happens because when you log on to server mfp2, a Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA) token is created and stored in your browser as a cookie. However, this LTPA token is not recognized by server mfp1. Switching between servers is likely to happen in a production environment when you have an HTTP load balancer in front of the cluster. To resolve this issue, we must ensure that both servers (mfp1 and mfp2) generate the LTPA tokens with the same secret keys. Copy the LTPA keys from server mfp1 to server mfp2.

      1. Stop both servers with these commands: 

          server stop mfp1
server stop mfp2

      2. Copy the LTPA keys of server mfp1 to server mfp2.

        From liberty_install_dir/usr/servers or WLP_USER_DIR/servers, run the following command depending on your operating system.

        • On UNIX: cp mfp1/resources/security/ltpa.keys mfp2/resources/security/ltpa.keys

        • On Windows: copy mfp1/resources/security/ltpa.keys mfp2/resources/security/ltpa.keys

    7. Restart the servers. Switch from one browser tab to another other does not require you to relogin. In a Liberty server farm, all servers must have the same LTPA keys.

  5. Enable the JMX communication between the Liberty servers.

    The JMX communication with Liberty, is done via the Liberty REST connector over the HTTPS protocol. To enable this communication, each server of the farm must be able to recognize the SSL certificate of the other members. We need to exchange the HTTPS certificates in their truststores. Use IBM utilities such as Keytool, which is part of the IBM JRE distribution in java/bin to configure the truststore. The locations of keystore and truststore are defined in the server.xml file. See the keyStoreRef and trustStoreRef attributes in SSL configuration attributes. By default, the keystore of Liberty profile is at WLP_USER_DIR/servers/server_name/resources/security/key.jks. The password of this default keystore, as can be seen in the server.xml file, is mobilefirst.

    Tip: We can change it with the Keytool utility, but we must also change the password in the server.xml file so that Liberty server can read that keystore. In this tutorial, use the default password.

    1. In WLP_USER_DIR/servers/mfp1/resources/security, enter keytool -list -keystore key.jks. The command shows the certificates in the keystore. There is only one named default. You are prompted for the password of the keystore (mobilefirst) before we can see the keys. This is the case for all the next commands with Keytool utility.

    2. Export the default certificate of server mfp1 with the command: keytool -exportcert -keystore key.jks -alias default -file mfp1.cert.

    3. In WLP_USER_DIR/servers/mfp2/resources/security, export the default certificate of server mfp2 with the command: keytool -exportcert -keystore key.jks -alias default -file mfp2.cert.

    4. In the same directory, import the certificate of server mfp1 with the command: keytool -import -file ../../../mfp1/resources/security/mfp1.cert -keystore key.jks The certificate of server mfp1 is imported into the keystore of server mfp2 so that server mfp2 can trust the HTTPS connections to server mfp1. You are asked to confirm that you trust the certificate.

    5. In WLP_USER_DIR/servers/mfp1/resources/security, import the certificate of server mfp2 with the command: keytool -import -file ../../../mfp2/resources/security/mfp2.cert -keystore key.jks. After this step, the HTTPS connections between the two servers are possible.


Testing the farm and see the changes in MobileFirst Operations Console


Procedure

  1. Start the two servers: 

      server start mfp1
server start mfp2

  2. Access the console. For example, http://localhost:9080/mfpconsole, or https://localhost:9443/mfpconsole in HTTPS. In the left sidebar, an extra menu that is labeled as Server Farm Nodes appears. If you click Server Farm Nodes, we can the status of each node. You might need to wait a bit for both nodes to be started.