IBM G210-1784-00 Chapter Starting the Applications, Starting the Delivery Server application

Chapter 17

Starting the Applications

At this point, the Learning Management System applications are ready to start. The WAS admin console is used to start these applications. Both the WAS logs and Learning Management System logs should be examined to verify correct initialization. At this point, the applications can be accessed via browser. The administrator identified during installation must login to the Learning Management System application and roster users, provide for importing content, and otherwise perform the tasks needed for actual learning to be delivered to users. The following information provides more details on starting the applications.

Starting the Learning Management System Server application

After the Learning Management System Server has been installed, the application can be started.

1.Go to the WAS Enterprise Application selection at the Administrative Console.

2.Click the Learning Management System Server checkbox.

3.Click Start. After a short time for startup-processing, the display will update to show the new application status.

4.Once the application is deployed, click on it in the Applications window.

5.In the application’s window (for example, the “Learning Management System” window in the current example), scroll down and click the “View Deployment Descriptor” link. Expand the + sign next to “Web Modules” and expand the + sign next to the specific Web module for the application.

6.Make a note of the “Context-root.” Appended to your WAS server’s hostname, this value forms the URL for your application. For example, if the Context root for your Learning Management System Server application is lms-lmm and you deployed it to a WAS server called xyz.acme.com, the publishable URL for the Learning Management System is http://xyz.acme.com/lms-lmm (case-sensitive).

7.To verify that the Learning Management System Server is running properly, simply enter http://xyz.acme.com/lms-lmm in a browser.

Starting the Delivery Server application

After the Delivery Server has been installed, the application can be started.

1.Go to the WAS Enterprise Application selection at the Administrative Console.

2.Click the Delivery Server checkbox.

3.Click Start. After a short time for startup-processing, the display will update to show the new application status.

4.Once the application is deployed, click on it in the Applications window.

5.In the application’s window (for example, the “Delivery Server” window in the current example), scroll down and click the “View Deployment Descriptor” link. Expand the + sign next to “Web Modules” and expand the + sign next to the specific Web module for the application.

6.Make a note of the “Context-root.” Appended to your WAS server’s hostname, this value forms the URL for your application. For example, if the Context root for your Delivery Server application is lms-ds and you deployed it to a WAS server called xyz.acme.com, the publishable URL for the Delivery Server is http://xyz.acme.com/lms-ds (case-sensitive).

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