Configuring the hosts file

You must ensure that the computer that you use to deploy IBM OpenPages® with Watson™ can connect to each computer on which you install the database server, application servers, reporting servers, and search server. You must also ensure that each server in your deployment can successfully ping and perform a trace route to and from each of the other servers.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the admin application server as the admin user.
  2. Edit the hosts file:
    • For Linux®, go to the /etc directory and open the hosts file in a text editor.
    • For Windows, open the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
  3. Add the IP address and name of each OpenPages application server, reporting server, search server, and database server.
  4. Save and close the hosts file.
  5. Repeat these steps for each OpenPages application server, reporting server, search server, and database server.