Installing and removing a stand-alone Personalization Server

You can install a stand-alone Personalization server to a new IBM® WebSphere® Application Server profile, which allows you to deploy WebSphere Application Server specific applications, serve personalized content to users, and record site metrics without requiring an active IBM WebSphere Portal server.

About this task

Perform the following steps to install or uninstall a stand-alone Personalization Server:

Procedure

  1. Open a command prompt and change to the was_profile_root/bin directory.
  2. Run the following command to create a WebSphere Application Server profile for the Personalization server:
    Windows
    manageprofiles.bat -create -profileName pzn_profile
 -profilePath was_profile_root\pzn_profile
 -templatePath AppServer_root\profileTemplates\default
    UNIX
    ./manageprofiles.sh -create -profileName pzn_profile
 -profilePath was_profile_root/pzn_profile
 -templatePath AppServer_root/profileTemplates/default
  3. Change to the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory and run the following command to initialize the stand-alone Personalization Server:
    Windows
    ConfigEngine.bat
 -DPznProfileName=target_profile_name
 action-init-pzn-standalone
 -DPortalAdminId=portal_uid
 -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_uid_password
 -DWasAdminId=was_uid 
 -DWasPassword=was_uid_password
    UNIX
    ./ConfigEngine.sh
 -DPznProfileName=target_profile_name
 action-init-pzn-standalone
 -DPortalAdminId=portal_uid
 -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_uid_password
 -DWasAdminId=was_uid
 -DWasPassword=was_uid_password
  4. Open the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine/pzn.properties file and edit the following properties to match your new WebSphere Application Server profile to the initialized stand-alone Personalization Server:
    WasSoapPort
    Enter the SOAP_CONNECTOR_ADDRESS value found in the serverindex.xml file of the new WebSphere Application Server profile.
    WpsHostPort
    Enter the WC_defaulthost value found in the serverindex.xml file of the new WebSphere Application Server profile.
    XmlAccessPort
    Enter the port used by the XMLAccess configuration task to connect the XMLAccess server.
    VirtualHostName
    Enter the name of the new WebSphere Application Server profile virtual host.
    WasUserHome
    Enter the name of the directory where the new WebSphere Application Server profile was created.
    ProfileName
    Enter the name of new WebSphere Application Server profile name.
    CellName
    Enter the name of the new WebSphere Application Server profile cell.
    NodeName
    Enter the name of the new WebSphere Application Server profile node.
    ServerName
    Enter name of the application server for the new WebSphere Application Server profile.
  5. Change to the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory and run the following command to install the stand-alone Personalization Server:
    Windows
    ConfigPzn.bat
 -DparentProperties=wp_profile_root\ConfigEngine\pzn.properties
 -DSaveParentProperties=false
 -DPortalAdminID=portal_uid
 -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_password
 -DWasAdminID=WAS_uid
 -DWasPassword=WAS_password action-install-pzn-standalone
    UNIX
    ./ConfigPzn.sh
 -DparentProperties=wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine/pzn.properties
 -DSaveParentProperties=false
 -DPortalAdminID=portal_uid
 -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_password
 -DWasAdminID=WAS_uid
 -DWasPassword=WAS_password action-install-pzn-standalone
  6. Change to the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory and run the following command to remove the stand-alone Personalization Server:
    Windows
    ConfigPzn.bat
 -DparentProperties=wp_profile_root\ConfigEngine\pzn.properties
 -DSaveParentProperties=false
 -DPortalAdminId=portal_uid
 -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_uid_passsword
 -DWasAdminId=was_uid
 -DWasPassword=was_uid_password action-remove-pzn-standalone
    UNIX
    ./ConfigPzn.sh
 -DparentProperties=wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine/pzn.properties
 -DSaveParentProperties=false
 -DPortalAdminId=portal_uid
 -DPortalAdminPwd=portal_uid_passsword
 -DWasAdminId=was_uid
-DWasPassword=was_uid_password action-remove-pzn-standalone