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Administrators can use the Utilities section of the WebFOCUS Administration Console to:
Configure the WebFOCUS Client Servlet options and specify its default path.
Change the Web Server aliases. When doing this, take care to ensure that these are properly set on the Web Server.
Note: The License Management menu option only appears if you have purchased the Comprehensive User Services license for Managed Reporting or WebFOCUS Magnify.
You must reload your WebFOCUS Web application in order for your changes to take effect. In addition, if you have enabled the InfoAssist, Power Painter, Quick Data, or Mobile Favorites features, users must log out of Managed Reporting and log back in.
Default values are:
WebFOCUS Servlet: /ibi_apps/WFServlet
WebFOCUS CGI: /cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe
WebFOCUS ISAPI: /cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/webapi.dll
Default values are:
Maintain Servlet: /ibi_apps/WFServlet
Maintain CGI: /cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe
Maintain ISAPI: /cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/webapi.dll
Note: If you set the CGI or ISAPI settings, you must also follow the additional CGI/ISAPI configuration steps outlined in your WebFOCUS and ReportCaster Installation and Configuration manual.
All changes are written to the ibi\WebFOCUS76\ibi_html\javaassist\cgipath.js file.
Important: When saving changes to all aliases and context roots:
Note that if ReportCaster is installed, the FOCHTMLURL initialization parameter must also be changed in the web.xml file of the ReportCaster Web application.
The MR Tool Type Selection window appears with the Java Swing applet-based ReportCaster Development and Administration Interface selected by default.
Note: The ReportCaster User Interface cannot be configured for Managed Reporting Analytical Users, who must use the HTML-based Scheduling Wizard and User Interface.
You must reload your WebFOCUS Web application in order for your changes to take effect. In addition, users must log out of Managed Reporting and log back in.
To extract MR Change Management Packages:
The Change Management Extract Utility login screen appears.
The Change Management Extract Utility appears as shown in the following image.
You can single-click (or drag and drop) one or more items from a domain.
You can double-click (or drag and drop) a domain to select all of it’s content. Properties of a domain are not propagated by the change management process. Note that a selected domain is a collection of the domain's content, not a complete clone of the original domain.
When you select an item or domain, it appears in the Selected Files and Domains pane. If you select duplicate items or domains, they are only added to the change package once. You should not select individual items from a domain that is already selected.
To remove all items and domains from the Selected Files and Domains list, click the Clear File List button.
The naming format for the change package is: YYYYMMDD_admin_HHMMSS.zip. The format is Java Zip (which is WinZip compatible). If you have WinZip installed locally, open the change package. To ensure that the Change Management utility recognizes the file and processes it correctly, do not change the file name or the .zip file extension.
The contents of the change package includes the extracted file(s) and a cmRepos.xml document that contains metadata about the file(s), such as their internal references and properties.
If you select the Save on Server option, the following window opens to provide you with the name of the change package created on the server.
If you are a Managed Reporting Administrator, consider whether you want developers to download and e-mail change packages to a coordinator, or create the packages on the Web server platform. Packages created on the server are written to install_dir/WebFOCUS76/utilities/cm/extract. If authorized, you can change this location by editing the WebFOCUS deployment descriptor (web.xml) and changing the value of the context-parameter MRCMEXTRACTDIR. The directory specified by this setting must exist and be writable by the servlet container. You may want to have developers create the package on the server and also download and e-mail them to a coordinator. This may help audit the change process since you have a record of the Developer's intent, and can load the packages from a controlled location.
Note: To ensure that the contents of a change package are not altered in any way, it is recommended that you always load change packages that were created with the Save on Server option.
You can also query the Repository for metadata if desired. This may be helpful in planning or debugging.
For more information about the output generated from these options (Users, Roles, Groups, Domains, Domains Contents), see the Managed Reporting Extract Utility chapter in the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual.
For more information about the change management process, see the Change Management chapter in the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual.
To load MR Change Management Packages:
The Change Management Load Utility login screen appears.
The Change Management Load Utility appears, as shown in the following image, and displays any folders in the \utilities\cm directory that contain .zip files.
The available options you can select include Overwrite duplicates (default), Backup packages (available only when Overwrite duplicates is selected), Preserve Creation info, and Preserve Modifier info.
Note: You can click the Open Log File button to view the contents of the cmevent.log file that was created in the \utilities\cm directory. It contains helpful information about the success or failure of the load process.
For more information, see the Change Management chapter in the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual.
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