This tech doc shall help you set up a Windows workpoint Designer for a remote Web Sphere Linux based Identity Manager.
Basically there are two alternatives:
Alternative 1:
Install Designer and operate Designer on your Windows box. This requires installing the Identity Manager tools library (use the CA IDM installer), JDK and the workpoint thinclient jar file. It also requires a web sphere client (installation provided by IBM).
the client configuration properties file mainins variables which require folders on the windows machine that will be installed with an actual web sphere client (note for example the 'plugins' folder herein):
SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer |
SET WAS_HOME=C:\Program Files\WebSphere\AppServer |
SET |
WAS_EXT_DIRS=%WAS_HOME%\plugins;%JAVA_HOME%\lib;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\ext;%WAS_HOM |
E%\lib;%WAS_HOME%\lib\ext;%WAS_HOME%\properties;%WAS_HOME%\plugins |
SET WAS_BOOTCLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\ibmorb.jar;%WAS_HOME%\properties |
SET PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin |
SET JAVAXPARMS=-Xbootclasspath/p:"%WAS_BOOTCLASSPATH%" |
SET JAVADPARMS=-Djava.ext.dirs="%WAS_EXT_DIRS%" |
Alternative 2:
Configure your workpoint Designer on the IDM server (linux based web sphere) and remotely activate it from your Windows machine. This will not require installing Designer or any of its pre-requisites to your Windows box. Having no CA (or IBM's web sphere) installations on your clients will reduce your costs and maintenance where no required upgrades on your clients are required. However, this method requires that you install utilities to allow you to remotely access and activate your Linux box from your Windows. Such utilities are putty/xming for that. Below is a description of this process.
Here is a good description on how to use putty/xming
Xming for Windows(free opensource) -Low Value/Used on a few projects Allows the use of graphical programs to be run remotely from a SUN/Linux box on a Windows workstation
Login with Putty with X11 Forwarding enabled as admin (or your account)
1) su root (or dsa or other account as needed that has access to run the program on the linux/unix server; ensure dash is used to have the correct user profile loaded)
2) Export DISPLAY=IP_of_Workstation:0.0 (where Xming is deployed; aka your workstation IP; ifconfig a)
3) Start XMing with the ac switch or disable access controls with Xlaunch ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Xming\Xming.exe" :0 -clipboard -multiwindow-ac){Shortcut on desktop}
4) Launch the any UNIX/Linux application as if you were on that system via putty, i.e. tomcat {any font issues warning message may be ignored}
Yours,
Sagi Gabay,
CA Technologies.