Step 6: Deploying the Rule Execution Server Management EAR

After you have activated the security, you deploy the Rule Execution Server EAR to WebSphere® Application Server.

About this task

You deploy the Rule Execution Server management EAR to WebSphere Application Server to apply the persistence type you set in a previous step and you map security users groups.

Procedure

  1. Open the Integrated Solutions Console.
  2. In the side panel, open Applications > New Application and click New Enterprise Application.
  3. In the side panel, select Local file system, browse to the archive file, and click Next.
    • <InstallDir>/executionserver/applicationservers/WebSphere7/jrules-res-management-WAS7.ear
    • <InstallDir>/executionserver/applicationservers/WebSphere8/jrules-res-management-WAS8.ear
    • <InstallDir>/executionserver/applicationservers/WebSphere85/jrules-res-management-WAS85.ear
  4. Select the check box Detailed - Show all installation options and parameters.
  5. Expand Choose to generate default bindings and mappings, select the check box Generate Default Bindings, and click Next.
  6. Click Continue to accept the security warning.
  7. In Step 1, click Next to accept the default settings.
  8. In Step 2, proceed as follows:
    • If you have only one server, skip Step 2.
    • If you have more than one server, select the server to which you want to deploy the application, and then select the check box for ILOG Rule Execution Server Console and click Next.
  9. In Step 3 through Step 8, click Next to accept the default settings.
  10. Click Step 9: Map security roles to users or groups. Here you map security roles to users and groups, as follows:
    1. Select the check box next to the resAdministrators role.
    2. Click Map Groups and click Search. The groups are shown in a column titled Available.
    3. Click resAdministrators under Available, and then click the arrow button to move resAdministrators to the Selected column.
    4. Click OK to return to the Mapping Users to Roles page.
    5. Repeat steps 10.a through 10.d to map the roles resDeployers and resMonitors for the other groups, making sure that only the check box next to the role that you are assigning is selected.
      Role Mapped groups
      resAdministrators resAdministrators
      resDeployers resDeployers
      resMonitors resMonitors
  11. Click Next.
    • On WebSphere Application Server 7, Step 10 provides a summary.
    • On WebSphere Application Server 8, proceed as follows:
    1. Click Next.
    2. In Step 10 and Step 11, click Next to accept the default settings.

      Step 12 provides a summary.

  12. Click Finish.
  13. After the installation has completed, click Manage Applications at the bottom of the panel.
  14. Click ILOG Rule Execution Server.
  15. Click Manage Modules.
  16. Click ILOG Rule Execution Server Console.
  17. Under General Properties, for Class loader order, select Classes loaded with local class loader first (parent last).
  18. Click OK, then click Save to save directly to the master configuration.
  19. In the side panel, open Applications  > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications.
  20. In the Enterprise Applications page, select the check box next to ILOG Rule Execution Server and click Start to start the application.