Essential tasks for manual installation

Linux If you chose the manual installation method when you installed IBM® Rational® Insight Data Services, you need to perform these essential configuration tasks for the data sources.
Before you begin

Make sure the IBM Rational Insight Data Services adapters are deployed on WebSphere® Application Server 6.1.

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Setting the Rational Insight Data Services profile to start automatically every time the data service server is restarted

  1. Navigate to the bin directory of the WebSphere Application Server instance of Rational Insight Data Services. If a new instance of WebSphere Application Server was installed automatically as a part of the installation process, this directory is /opt/IBM/WebSphere/.
  2. To define the system service, run the following command:
    Note: To ensure that the command works properly, preserve the spaces correctly when you enter the command.

    You might have installed WebSphere Application Server to a different location than the default location specified in the command. If so, make sure to specify the correct installation location.

    It might take several minutes for the WebSphere Application Server profile of Rational Insight Data Services to start. Until the Rational Insight Data Services profile starts, you might not be able to access the WebSphere administrative console and Rational Insight Data Services.

    wasservice.sh -add RationalInsight -serverName server1 -profilePath "/opt/ibm/RationalInsight/AppServer/profiles/RationalInsight" -startType automatic

Tasks for the ClearQuest adapter

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Creating a shared library for the ClearQuest® adapter
  1. To view the Shared Libraries page, click Environment > Shared Libraries.
  2. To specify the scope setting, select the Node=RationalInsightNode01, Server=RationalInsightServer entry. RationalInsightNode01 is the default name of the node and RationalInsightServer is the default name of the server.
  3. To create a shared library reference, click New.
  4. Enter the values for name, description and class path. For information on the values that can be entered, see the related links at the bottom of the page.
  5. Click OK and click Save.

Associating the shared libraries with the data service profile

Before you do this task, make sure you create the shared libraries.
  1. Click Servers > Application Servers.
  2. Click the server on which you have deployed the data service. The default value is RationalInsightServer.
  3. Click Server Infrastructure > Java and Process Management > Class Loader.
  4. To create a new class loader for the shared libraries, click New > OK.
  5. To associate the shared library references with the class loader, click the new class loader.
  6. Click Shared library references.
  7. For each library that needs to be associated, click Add, select the library, and click OK.
  8. Click Save.
  9. Restart the Rational Insight Data Services profile.

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