Using Verifone RiTA software with IBM WAS

David Dietrich — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:53:32 +0000

If you are running the RiTA software by Verifone, you may encounter a number of issues configuring the software to work in an IBM WebSphere environment. There are two issues you want to avoid:

Not being able to find the tid.jcc file
Not having the .jar files in the correct location

First, the tid.jcc needs to be in the default server directory for IBM WAS. On Linux, this will most likely be the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01 directory.

To add the tid.jcc reference, you will want to link it from your RiTA installation directory (the default directory being /opt/rita). Run these commands:

>cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01
>ln -s /opt/rita/tid.jcc

Next, you will need to link all of the RiTA .jar files to your extensions directory in the Java Runtime Engine. Run these commands:

>cd /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/java/jre/lib/ext
>find /opt/rita/lib/rita -name ‘*.jar’ -exec ln -s {} \;

You will now have symbolic links to all of the RiTA .jar files and it will be accessible to WebSphere and all other Java applications.

Changing the host name in IBM WAS

David Dietrich — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:05:42 +0000

Many times in a virtual environment, it is advantageous to be able to change the host name. But if you have a virtual guest with IBM WAS installed, cloning the guest may result in the new guest being unable to stop the server, run CORBA properly, or gain access to your message queues within WAS. Therefore, you need to reset the host name for WAS.

To do this, go to the wsadmin.sh prompt. If you don’t know where wsadmin.sh is, run >locate wsadmin.sh. Then change directory (cd) into the directory that locate returned. To start WAS admin, type the following commands (assuming your server is called server1 and the node is named oldMachineNameNode01):

./wsadmin.sh -profile server1 -lang jacl

Once inside the WAS admin tool, run the following commands:

wsadmin>$AdminTask changeHostName { -nodeName oldMachineNameNode01 -hostName newwasVMmachineName };
wsadmin>$AdminConfig save
wsadmin>exit

Restart WAS, and your new machine name should work fine.

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Using Verifone RiTA software with IBM WAS

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