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At this time you should also identify the LDAP username for the Learning Management System administrator. This value is used to make an entry in the USER table and represents the only rostered user when the application starts.

For more information, refer to “Chapter 9 Installing and configuring database servers and schema”.

7. Install the Network Deployment module (optional)

The Network Deployment (ND) module configures and controls multi-server WAS installations. If you intend to deploy the Learning Management System on more than one application server, then ND must be installed to manage the cluster, which you can then do from a single machine. The ND module can be installed on a node where WAS Core has been installed.

For more information, refer to “Chapter 10 Installing the Network Deployment (ND) Module.”

8. Configure JDBC data sources

Access to JDBC connections is made via JNDI lookup of a named data source. These data sources have well- known names that are embedded in the Learning Management System .ear file. Using the WAS admin console, you must configure three data sources. For example, the default data sources are Learning, Audit, and Delivery.

For more information, refer to “Chapter 11 Configuring JDBC Data Sources.”

9. Configure environment entries

The Learning Management System uses J2EE environment entries to obtain some needed settings. Similarly to the JDBC data sources, these have well-known names that are embedded in the Learning Management System application. The needed environment entries must be created and their values specified with the Was Admin console.

For more information, refer to “Chapter 12 Configuring Environment Entries.”

10.Configure WebSphere Application Server security

Learning Management System relies on WAS LDAP authentication. The WAS admin console must be used to configure LDAP as the active user registry. To perform this, an LDAP username must be selected as the WAS administrator; also bind credentials to the LDAP directory must be specified. This information was obtained in step 2 and is now used as input into the WAS configuration .

For more information, refer to “Chapter 13 Configuring WebSphere Application Server Security.”

11.Deploy the Learning Management Server application

After the application files have been installed with the Learning Management System Installer, you must then deploy the application via the Application Server Admin console. The Learning Management System product package includes separate application .ear files for the Learning Management System Server and the Delivery Server. The Learning Management System Server should be deployed first.

Using the Admin console, the .ear file is read and validated. A series of "wizard" pages is then presented to let you finalize the application settings. The main activity here is the binding of the references included in the .ear file to the specific JDBC data-sources and environment entries created in the earlier steps of this outline.

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