How to setup HACP Extended Edition

Pre-requisites:
 
•       IBM Host On-Demand server
•       Web browsers:

• Google Chrome v59.0.3071.115 or above
• Firefox v51.0.1 or above

•       Application servers:

• IBM WebSphere Application Server v9.0.0.4 and above
• IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5.11 and above

•       Client Operating Systems:

• Windows 10 and above
• RHEL 7.2 and above
• Mac OS 10.11 and above (Only Firefox browser is supported)

 
Refer to the technote below for more information
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27050112
 
Deployment steps:

• Download the IBM HACP EE package from Fix Central
• Extract the contents of IBM HACP EE package (.zip) file
• Deploy the EAR (Enterprise Application archive) file on WAS using WAS Admin console – using all the default options.

 
Configuration steps:

• Once you restart WAS after deploying the EAR file, HACP EE runtime needs to be configured to connect to the HOD server.
• Click on HACPEE application on the applications page

• Select “Initialize parameters for servlets” link on the Configuration page

• Configure the initial parameters of HACP EE application on WAS with Host On-Demand service manager and web server details

In short: HODWebServer, HODWebServerPort and HODAlias point to the http-server part of the HOD Server (same data as you would enter in the browser session).
ConfigServer and ConfigServerPort should only be required with Config based model clients. These values pick up default one. If the users have modified default settings, they need to provide the same in these fields.
 
Accessing HOD sessions
 
Configuration server based model pages
On the client PC, start a browser and navigate to

http(s)://appserver_address:port/hex/HOD.html

This can be a configuration model based page created using HOD's deployment wizard or one of the default pages - HOD.html, HODCached.html, HODDebug.html, HODCachedDebug.html

Above URLs show a login page and users can login using their HOD server credentials.
 
HTML based model pages
 
On the client PC, start a browser and navigate to

http(s)://appserver_address:port/hex/yourhtml.html

This should be a HTML based model page created using HOD's Deployment Wizard.

​Session information in both cases is retrieved from the HOD server.

Praveen Sashikant
Chief Programmer – HOD, HACPEE
praveeny@hcl.com