Edit settings in the news-config.xml file
to define the interval at which data from the HCL Connections applications is synchronized
with the News repository.
Before you begin
To edit configuration files, you must
use the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client.
See Starting the wsadmin
client for details.
About this task
To ensure that the information received by the News repository
is analyzed correctly, News maintains a list of colleagues for each
user. The list of colleagues is synchronized from the HCL Connections Profiles application. The interval
at which data is synchronized is specified using the frequencyInHours setting.
By default, the synchronization is set to take place every 24 hours.
Procedure
To configure the data synchronization task, 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.
- Start the News Jython script interpreter.
- Use the following command
to access the News configuration file:
execfile("newsAdmin.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.
- Check out the News cell-level
configuration file using the following command:
NewsCellConfig.checkOutConfig("working_dir",
"cellName")
where:
- working_dir is the temporary directory to which you want to check out the
cell-level configuration file. This directory must exist on the server where you are running
wsadmin.
Note: AIX, and Linux only: The
directory must grant write permissions or the command will not run successfully.
- cellName is the name of the cell that the home
page node belongs to. This argument is required. It is also case-sensitive,
so type it with care. If you do not know the cell name, type the following
command in the wsadmin command processor to determine it:
print
AdminControl.getCell()
For example:
NewsCellConfig.checkOutConfig("d:/temp", "NewsServerNode01Cell")
The command displays this message:
News Cell Level configuration file successfully checked out.
- Open news-config.xml in a text editor.
- Locate the section containing the dataSynchronization task
and make the necessary changes.
For example, the following
code specifies that data is synchronized between the News repository
and the HCL Connections applications
every 24 hours. The information is copied over only if it hasn't
been copied already in the last 24 hours.
<dataSynchronization>
<frequencyInHours>24</frequencyInHours>
</dataSynchronization>
- 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 the News repository for information about
how to save and apply your changes.