Associate an HTML rendering server with WebSphere Portal on IBM i
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 IBM iAssociate the HTML rendering server (X virtual frame buffer for X server) with WebSphere Portal:
- Log into the IBM WAS administrative console.
- Click Servers -> Server Types -> WebSphere application servers -> WebSphere_Portal -> Server Infrastructure -> Java and Process Management -> Process definition -> Additional Properties -> Environment Entries.
- 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 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 WP_PROFILE/bin directory.
- Enter the stopServer server1 -username admin_userid -password foo command to stop the WAS.
- Enter the stopServer WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password foo command to stop the WebSphere Portal server.
- Enter the startServer server1 command.
- Enter the startServer WebSphere_Portal command.
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