Change the unix password remotely on Windows platform (cygwin)

For a user who maintains WebSphere products on many UNIX servers, it is a boring thing to change the password every 90 or 120 days.

Here is an example to change the password remotely on windows platform using cygwin

1) install cygwin using setup.exe , which can be found at the link: http://www.cygwin.com/
2) run setup.exe and make sure you select "expect" and "ssh" packages.
3) after installing cygwin, click "cygwin" on the windows desktop and you will enter cygwin interface.
4) create an expect shell script  like following:

wsadmin faces the soap timeout issue

When you execute a wsadmin script which will take a long time and you may see the timeout issue:

WASX7015E: Exception running command: "AdminTask.extractConfigProperties ('-interactive')"; exception information:
com.ibm.websphere.management.exception.ConnectorException
org.apache.soap.SOAPException: [SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Client; msg=Read timed out; targetException=java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out]

the solution for this issue is:

change the field "com.ibm.SOAP.requestTimeout" in the soap.client.properties in the profile directory to a value you want to specify or "0" (which means no timeout). the default value is "180" seconds.

Configure IHS Web Server on WAS or WPS

After installing IHS Web Server, we need to create a web server on WAS so that the application deployed on WAS server can be mapped to web server.

-          Logon to server WAS_HostServer with user “wasuser”, the user is used to run WebSphere Application Server instances

-          Go to directory /IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin

-          Download the file “configurewebserver1.sh” from IHS_HostServer, the file is at /IBM/HTTPServer/Plugins/bin

Install IBM IHS on AIX System (1)

1) Create logical file system /IBM (or other name)

2) Download the following installation files from IBM WebSite

- C1G2NML.tar.gz (WebSphere Supplements installation media)

3) Download the following FixPack files from IBM website.

Fixpacks