Configuring dashboards and registering REST endpoints on the administrative console
You can install and configure the Business Space component using the administrative console.
Before you begin
- Install the product software and create a profile. When you install your product, Business Space files are included with the installation for the profiles that you set up. Your profile is not configured for dashboards until you explicitly configure the Business Space component on the profile.
- Optionally, set up a secured environment for dashboards by enabling security.
- Configure Representational State Transfer (REST) services. If you have a stand-alone server environment or you are using the Deployment Environment wizard to configure your runtime environment, the REST service endpoints are configured and enabled automatically. For other environments, use the REST services administrative console page to configure the REST services. To have widgets available in dashboards, you must configure the REST services for those widgets. On the Business Space Configuration administrative console page, you register the REST endpoints so that Business Space associates widgets with the endpoints and the widgets appear in the palette for use.
- Configure the Business Space component on a server or cluster by using a different data source than the product data source: create the data source in the server or cluster scope with the correct JNDI name of jdbc/mashupDS before configuring the Business Space component by using the administrative console.
- (Oracle) Optionally, to use a different schema for the Business Space database tables
than the one that the product database uses, complete the following
steps to create a data source manually before you open the Business Space Configuration
page:
- Create the schema using the database product software.
- Use the administrative console to configure the JDBC provider.
- Use the administrative console to create a data source with the JNDI name of jdbc/mashupDS at the server or cluster scope, depending on your environment.
- Use the administrative console to create an authentication alias. Set the user name to the schema you created and set the authentication according to your Oracle setup.
- Set the authentication alias on the data source.
About this task
If you are using deployment environments or other advanced profile configuration, you must use the administrative console to configure the Business Space component to work with dashboards in your runtime environment.
Procedure
What to do next
If you are using Oracle, the password of the authentication alias of the Business Space data source is set to same as the Business Space schema name. The default value of the schema is IBMBUSSP. When you configure the Business Space component, you can specify a different schema on the administrative console or on the command line. In that case, the default password is the same as the schema you specify. To use a different password for the Business Space user name, you must use the administrative console to updated JDBC Resources: Find the data source jdbc/mashupsDS. Modify the value of the authentication alias to make it match the password of the Business Space schema name. Save your changes and restart the server.