You can modify settings in the profiles-config.xml file
to specify when the Profiles object cache is refreshed, and to define
the refresh interval and start delay.
Before you begin
To edit configuration files, you must
use the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client.
See Starting the wsadmin
client for information about how to start the wsadmin command-line
tool.
About this task
The Profiles object cache is used to cache auxiliary table
information, including department, organization, work location, employee
type, and country code display values. As a result, there is a delay
before changes to these types of data are reflected in the user interface.By
default, the data is refreshed every 15 minutes to ensure that, whenever
data is updated, there is a relatively short delay from when the data
is changed and when the changes are reflected in the user interface.
Procedure
To configure the Profiles object cache, complete the
following steps.
- 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. For more information, see Starting
the wsadmin client.
- 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")
- Open the profiles-config.xml file
in a text editor.
- Look for the
<profileObjectCache>
element,
and then modify the following lines of code as needed:<profileObjectCache>
<refreshTime>22:30</refreshTime> <!-- 24 hour time -->
<refreshInterval>15</refreshInterval> <!-- minutes -->
<startDelay>10</startDelay> <!-- minutes -->
</profileObjectCache>
where:
- <refreshTime> is the scheduled refresh time in HH:MM format.
- <refreshInterval> is the refresh interval in minutes.
- <startDelay> is the specified start delay in minutes.
- Save your changes and close the configuration file.
- After making changes, you must check the configuration
files back in, and you must do so during the same wsadmin session
in which you checked them out for the changes to take effect. See Applying
property changes in Profiles for information about how to save
and apply your changes.