Installing the MobileFirst Server administration
You must install the Administration Services, and optionally the MobileFirst Operations Console, as part of the MobileFirst Server installation.
- Optional creation of the administration database
If you want to activate the option to install the administration relational database when you run the Ant tasks or the Server Configuration Tool, you must have certain database access rights that entitle you to create the databases, or the users, or both, that are required by the MobileFirst Server administration. - Configuration of the application server
IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation has some requirements for the configuration of the application server that are detailed in the following topics. - Installing MobileFirst Server administration with the Server Configuration Tool
You can use the Server Configuration Tool to install and configure MobileFirst Server administration. - Using Ant tasks to install MobileFirst Server administration
Learn about the Ant tasks that you can use to install MobileFirst Server administration. - Manually installing MobileFirst Server administration
You can install the MobileFirst Server administration manually instead of using the Ant task or the Server Configuration Tool. You might also want to reconfigure MobileFirst Server so that it uses a different database or schema from the one that was specified during the first installation of MobileFirst Server. This reconfiguration depends on the type of database and the kind of application server. - Defining the endpoint of the MobileFirst Administration services
If circumstances require the parameters of the endpoint definition to be changed, you must configure properties of the web application server appropriately. - Configuring user authentication for MobileFirst Server administration
You configure user authentication and choose an authentication method. The configuration procedure depends on the web application server that you use. - Declaring the Cloudant SSL configuration for the MobileFirst Server administration
If you install the MobileFirst Server administration into WebSphere® Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, you use a Cloudant® database, and meet specific criteria described in this topic, you must declare the Cloudant SSL configuration. - List of JNDI properties for MobileFirst Server administration
When you configure MobileFirst Server Administration Services and MobileFirst Operations Console for your application server, you set optional or mandatory JNDI properties, in particular for Java™ Management Extensions (JMX). - Verifying the installation of MobileFirst Server administration
You must log in to the MobileFirst Operations Console to verify that the installation was successful. - Installing the MobileFirst runtime environment
Parent topic: Installing MobileFirst Server