Hi All,
Good Day..!!!
I have a small question on how to check if webFOCUS client is installed on our application servers(Websphere application server).
How do i recognize that?
do we have any file or file system?


Thanks In advance..!!

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

Short Answer: Ask your WebFOCUS Administrator.

Well I am the webfocus ADMIN here and I know the client set up is done in web tier in a seperate server but the same is tough to recognize in application server tier.

Can you get to http://{server}/ibi_apps/.

Does it show the links page ?

Can you get to the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

If you log in, there are configuration and tests available.

You shouldn't have a (WebFOCUS) client on the application tier, as the Web teir will connect to the WebFOCUS server.

Is your installation 2-tier, 3 teir, or other ?

Hi Waz,
Thanks for the info. I do have access to the webFOCUS admin console and I have the below details.
Basic Client Settings(Inside Configuration-->Client settings-->General)
• APPROOT /opt/ibi/webfocus/products
• IBI_DOCUMENT_ROOT /opt/ibi/WebFOCUS76
• CGI_TEMP_DIR /opt/ibi/webfocus/temp
• IBI_BACKUP_DI /opt/ibi/webfocus/backup

Our Archetecture is a 3 tier archetecture
1) Web tier
2)Application Tier
3)Reporting Tier

One more underliing tier thats database tier.


Please advice.

Any update ?

Hi Rocky, sorry about the delay.

In the administration console there are tests that can be done to ensure the connectivity.

Have a look under Diagnostics/Verification.

Try

http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/WFServlet

quote:

localhost:8080

Should be the server and port of yours. This should fetch you

 No query information to decode.  

Frank, can you tell us the name of the book of smart date tips and techniques you mentioned on Friday? Is it available on Amazon?

Just did a search for '(Almost) 1001 Ways to Work With Dates for WebFOCUS' on Amazon, and lo and behold it is available there. It's just 10 bucks more expensive as when you buy it from IBI.
Data from the IBI site:
Title as above, Price: $25.00, DN: 9400251.1106, Page Count: 360
The book is worth every penny of the 25 $.

Just go to the admin page and run diagnostincs, verification, automatic. If anything fails it gives you hints to look at.