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Reputation: 13950

What do I need to use the Websphere Portal scripting interface?

My Problem

I had to change some config settings in Websphere Portal several times over the last few weeks. It gets boring now and I want to replace myself with a little script.

I need access to the section Manage pages and in/activate some content nodes.

I want to script this task

I created a Selenium script for this, but this still involves opening Firefox, loading the Selenium script into the Selenium IDE, provide the password (because I feel dirty when I save it into the script) and run it on all 3 clusters.

I read about Portal scripting and I want to try that. But unfortunatly I only have Websphere Application server installed on my machine and therefore only wsadmin.bat/sh is available for me.

What do I need to run Websphere Portal scripts?

There is a script wpscript.bat/sh that I need to use. Do I have to install Websphere Portal on my local machine? Is there a minimal setup that I can use? Can I just copy some JARs and go on?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1010

Answers (1)

Nachtfrost
Nachtfrost

Reputation: 447

XMLAccess is what you are looking for. XMLAccess is a command line tool which comes with the Portal Server. It allows you to connect to a local or remote portal server and execute tasks like deploy portlets, add / remove pages, set parameters, activate / inactivate pages, etc.

XMLAccess uses XML based files to administrate tasks.

Where is it?

Look in the 'PORTAL_INSTALL_DIR/Portal Server/bin directory'

How to start XMLAccess?

./xmlaccess.sh -in your_xmlaccess_file.xml -url http://localhost:10040/wps/config -out message_log.txt ...

Please refer the IBM Portal InfoCenter for detailed description.

How does a XMLAccess XML file looks like?

There are examples in your portal installation. Look at PORTAL_INSTALL_DIR/Portal Server/doc/xml-samples.

Upvotes: 1

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