Installing tools and utilities (IBM OpenPages with Watson)

Tools and utilities, such as ObjectManager, are available on the application servers. But you can also install them on remote systems, such as your laptop, and run them remotely.

Before you begin

The computer where you install the tools and utilities must meet the following requirements:

IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition 8 or Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 is installed.
JAVA_HOME is defined.
The computer must be able to communicate with the OpenPages® application server.

About this task

Do this task if you want to run any of the following tools from a remote system:

ObjectManager: See The ObjectManager tool.
Update Password Encryption Algorithm (UPEA): See Updating the password encryption algorithm.
chng-sys-password.sh|.cmd: See Changing the OPSystem password.
RpsRpf.sh|.cmd: A command line tool for creating the reporting schema and generating the reporting framework. See Generating the reporting schema and framework from a command line.
Notification Manager: See The Notification Manager.

If you're using IBM OpenPages for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, see Installing tools and utilities in Cloud Pak for Data.

Procedure

Get the installation package.

Go to the /OP_<version>_Main/OP_<version>_Tools directory on the installation media. Download the openpages-tools-client.zip file.
Extract the openpages-tools-client.zip file to a new directory.
Go to the openpages-tools-client/bin directory.
Open the openpages-tools-client.properties file in a text editor.
Update the value of the rest.url.path property.
Type the base URL of the public REST API on the application server.
```
https\://<host>\:<port>/grc/api
```
Replace <host> and <port> with the hostname and port of the OpenPages application server.
By default, the application server's TLS (SSL) certificate is checked for validity when you run tools such as ObjectManager. To change this behavior, update the insecure.skip.tls.verify property.
For more information, see Tools properties and parameters.
Save and close the file.

Results

You can now run the tools by using the scripts and properties files in the openpages-tools-client/bin directory.