Four times in the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual it is mentioned that you can either edit a file manually or "Open the ServletExec Administration tool". I searched my whole library of IBI documentation and found that only one document mentions it - the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual, without telling us how to "open" it.

Anyone found this thing yet?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

You posted this some time ago.

http://forums.informationbuild...1057331/m/4241040441


What do you want to aftually do ?

Yup! I found my old post about this!

I wanted to document how to modify the "goToPersonalViewOnLogin" setting and I thought it would be easier to describe the steps via a tool instead of describing the steps via a text editor. I think I would have to specify that the web app must be reloaded or sumfing...

Seems everything references the xml file.

May have to ask Techsupport.

It seems to me like the "Servlet Administrator Tool" is just a generic term to refer to your particular App Server (servlet container) admin tool.

In the "old days" IBI used to bundle the WF client along with the New Atlanta Servlet container that could be used with IIS.

Nowadays, Tomcat is the default (and it's not limited to IIS, yay) so perhaps one should look into the Tomcat Admin and/or Manager tools to see if they support the modifying of those settings directly from a web page?


Usually the "manager" app comes bundled with Tomcat and can be accessed via:

http://myhost:[port]/manager

For some reason I cannot access it in my 7.7.03 install so perhaps it's been stripped down (or something else is going on in my environment).

Now I have homework

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

Interesting ... the "manager" webapp is not present at \ibi\tomcat\webapps.

I found it under \ibi\tomcat\undeployed_webapps though, so I'll see if I can get server access to "deploy" it and see what happens.

The "Admin" tool used to come automatically bundled in the old Tomcat 4.x days but they (Apache Foundation) stopped doing that as of Tomcat 5.x if I'm correct, but it can still be downloaded and deployed as any other regular web application.

Anyhow, time to play with this manager thing.

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WebFOCUS Client and Developer Studio Version 7 Release 7.03 will no longer automatically deploy the Tomcat Manager or example Web applications that are typically bundled with Tomcat. These Web applications will still be included during installation but will be put in a folder called undeployed_webapps, where they can easily be moved to the Tomcat webapps directory to be deployed, if needed. The decision to remove these default Web applications was made as a continued effort to tighten the security surrounding the WebFOCUS product. Security vulnerabilities and configuration issues can occur with the supplied applications, and by not deploying them, it helps to ensure that security vulnerabilities will not be introduced in an environment that deploys either the WebFOCUS Client or Developer Studio. These changes will not impact existing installations of Tomcat. If you have Tomcat installed from a prior release of WebFOCUS or Developer Studio, it is recommended that you review the deployed default Web applications and remove it if it is not being used, to further enhance the security of your WebFOCUS environment.

But why does the WebFOCUS documentation refer to this ServletExec Abmin tool without telling us how to run it?

quote:

Procedure: How to Set the Idle Limit for Authenticated Users Manually
1. From the WEB-INF directory, open the web.xml file.
2. Edit the param-value as desired.

USER_MAX_INACTIVE
-1

Type -1 (the default setting) if you do not want the server to ever time out. Otherwise,
type the number of minutes before time out occurs.
3. Save and close the file.

Procedure: How to Set the Idle Limit for Public Users Using ServletExec
1. Open the ServletExec Administration tool.
2. Under Web Applications, click Manage.
3. Under WebFOCUS77 Application Name, click web.xml.
4. Under Servlets, click Manage.
5. Under Servlet Name, click WORP_Loader.
6. Under Initialization Parameters, edit the following:
...

Thanks for the info, cssbjk. At least I know where that "mysterious" folder comes from and why Manager is no longer deployed.

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

Ditto with njsden, I was looking for the admin stuff only a week or two ago.