Configuration settings control how and when various Profiles
operations take place. You can edit the settings to change the ways
that profiles behave.
Before you begin
To edit configuration files,
you must use the wsadmin client. See Starting the wsadmin client for
information about how to start the wsadmin command-line tool.
About this task
Configure Profiles using scripts accessed with the wsadmin
client. These scripts use the AdminConfig object available in the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client
to interact with the Profiles configuration file. Changes to configuration
settings require node synchronization and a restart of the Profiles
server before they take effect.Note: There are no Profiles application
administrative tools for adding or removing a user's profile. If you
want to add or remove a profile for a person, you must add or remove
that person's entry from the corporate LDAP directory system. Use
that directory's native tools to create and delete user entries. When
you perform standard synchronization tasks on the Profiles database,
the profiles are updated. If you add a new user to the LDAP directory,
a profile is created for that user. If you remove a user entry from
the LDAP directory, that user's profile is removed. See Synchronizing
user data between Profiles and the LDAP directory for more
details.
To change Profiles configuration settings, complete
the following steps:
Procedure
- Start the wsadmin client from the following
directory of the system on which you installed the Deployment Manager:
app_server_root\profiles\dm_profile_root\bin
where
app_server_root is
the WebSphere Application
Server installation directory and
dm_profile_root is
the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.
You
must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that
you enter do not execute correctly.
- Start the Profiles Jython script interpreter.
- Enter the following command
to access the Profiles configuration files:
execfile("profilesAdmin.py") If
prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first
node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command
writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path,
you must pick the node where the file is stored.
- Enter the following command
to check out the Profiles configuration files:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("working_directory",
"cell_name" where:
- working_directory is the temporary working directory to which the
configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use
forward slashes (/) to separate directories in the file path, regardless of your operating
system.
Note: In order for the command to complete successfully, the directory must
grant write permissions if you are using one of the following operating systems:
- cell_name is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell hosting
the Profiles application. This argument is required. It is also case-sensitive.
If you do not know the cell name, you can determine it by typing the
following command in the wsadmin command processor: print
AdminControl.getCell()
For example:
- AIX or Linux:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")
- Microsoft
Windows:
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")
- To change a Profiles configuration setting, use the following
command:
ProfilesConfigService.updateConfig("property",
"value")
where:
- property is one of the editable Profiles configuration
properties.
- value is the new value with which you want
to set that property.
For example, the following code disables the display of organizational
information.
ProfilesConfigService.updateConfig("organizationalStructure.enabled","false")
See
Profiles
configuration properties for a complete list of editable properties.
- Optional: Repeat the previous step once for
each property setting you want to change.
What to do next
You must check the configuration files back in after making
changes, and they must be checked in during the same wsadmin session
in which they were checked out for the changes to take effect. See Applying
property changes for details.