Launch a page in TIP without providing login credentials

Answer

Assume there is an html page "sample.html" you want to launch in TIP. If you are already logged into TIP you can open it as below. Before you open this page the page should exist in "<TIPHOME>\profiles\TIPProfile\systemApps\isclite.ear\Webtop.war" directory (Replace <TIPHOME> with actual path name based on your installation) .

Please replace change the port # in below URL (if needed) depending on your implementation.

https://localhost:16316/ibm/console/webtop/sample.htm

If you want to open "sample.html" page without logging into TIP then we need to create an iFrame (Inline Frame) portlet and then pass the URL of above page to the iFrame. We are assuming that sample.html page is already created in "<TIPHOME>\profiles\TIPProfile\systemApps\isclite.ear\Webtop.war" directory.

1. Create an iFrame portlet.

a). Go to Page Management.
b). Click on the New Page and select iFrame.
c). Save the page (for example: sampleiFrame)
d). Open the sampleiFrame porltet and click on the Edit options button (down arrow) on the top right hand side of the portlet and then select Personalize.
e). In the URL field type in the URL name you want to open and save the changes. For example;

https://localhost:16316/ibm/console/webtop/sample.htm

a). Login to the server from the command line and execute the following command. In the following tipadmin and password is the Id and password which will be used to login to TIP while launching the page.

For Windows :
java -cp "C:\Workarea\runtime\WebGUI73\systemApps\isclite.ear\xlaunchapi.jar" com.ibm.isc.api.xlaunch.LaunchPropertiesHelper$Encode com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.username tipadmin com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.password password

For Unix: We need to escape the dollar for linux machines.
java -cp /export/home/netcool/webgui/profiles/TIPProfile/installedApps/TIPCell/isc.ear/xlaunchapi.jar
com.ibm.isc.api.xlaunch.LaunchPropertiesHelper\$Encode com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.username tipadmin
com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.password password

Above command will generate an encoded string with username and password like below:

L2NvbS5pYm0uaXNjLnhsYXVuY2gudXNlcm5hbWUvd2ViYWRtaW4vY29tLmlibS5pc2MueGxhdW5jaC5wYXNzd29yZC9uZXRjb29s

b). Now we need to get page Id. In TIP console click on Settings->Page Management. Click on sampleiFrame we created above to view it. The "Page unique name" contains the page Id.