Associating an HTML rendering server with WebSphere Portal
After selecting a display number for the HTML rendering server (X virtual frame buffer for X server), associate this server with the installed WebSphere Portal profile.
Prerequisites
- Configure an HTML rendering server on i5/OS
To associate the HTML rendering server (X virtual frame buffer for X server) with WebSphere Portal:
- Log into the administrative console.
- Log into the administrative console. Depending on your version of WAS, make the appropriate selection from the navigation:
Option Description WAS v6.1
- Click Servers > Application Servers.
- Select the appserver to which your application is deployed.
- On the Configuration tab under Java and Process Management, click Process Definition.
- Under Additional Properties, click Environment Entries.
WAS v7.0 Click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere appservers > Server Infrastructure > Java and Process Management > Process definition.
- Click New.
- In the Name field type DISPLAY.
- In the Value field type host_name:n, where host_name is the TCP/IP host name of your system and n is the display number of the HTML rendering server. (Example: 'mysystem.xland.company.com:1').
- Click OK.
- Save changes to the master WAS configuration file.
- To stop and restart the server1 and WebSphere_Portal servers, where server1 is the name of the WAS and WebSphere_Portal is the name of the WebSphere Portal server:
- Open a command prompt and change to the profile_root/bin directory.
- Enter the stopServer server1 -username admin_userid -password admin_password command to stop the WAS.
- Enter the stopServer WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password admin_password command to stop the WebSphere Portal server.
- Enter the startServer server1 command.
- Enter the startServer WebSphere_Portal command.
Parent topic:
Rendering documents on i5/OS
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Configure an HTML rendering server on i5/OS