Tomcat and prconfig.xml
We are migrating from WAS to Tomcat in a cost savings move. In WAS, we have prconfig.xml and prlogging.xml externalized from the ear file in a separate directory. The location is defined in the WAS configuration. In the install manual for PRPC Tomcat/Oracle I don't see any information on how to externalize these files.
Can this be done in Tomcat? If so, what config file needs to be updated and how? (Tomcat neophyte...)
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Serialized Solutions Inc
CA
@MarkH960. To protect against future upgrades of Pega, you can also externalize access to prconfig.xml and prlogging.xml like you did within WAS. My assumption is you are using 7.1.x (I believe it will also work in 7.x but I have not tested it). Of course, with an upgrade of Pega you would still want to validate the differences in XML files to make sure you are safe that way. But like @PaulGentile_GCS states, it is, by default auto expanded (usually) by Tomcat and accessible within the webapps directory of tomcat installation
With those caveats out of the way, and if you still want to externalize, I believe the configuration explanation (from System Administrator Specialist online course 7.1) is as follows,
prlogging.xml can be externalized by placing this file in the directory that is defined by the JVM System property "user.home"
prconfig.xml can be externalized by placing this file in a directory that is defined by the JVM System property, "pegarules.config"
I hope this helps.
Rob
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hi Mark,
Externalizing the prconfig.xml and prlogging.xml in a Tomcat deployment is pretty straightforward.
Just define JVM system properties as mentioned below:
- prlogging.xml
-Dpegarules.logging.configuration=<path>/prlogging.xml
- prconfig:
-Dpegarules.config=<path>/prconfig.xml
Hi Mark,
Externalizing the prconfig.xml and prlogging.xml in a Tomcat deployment is pretty straightforward.
Just define JVM system properties as mentioned below:
- prlogging.xml
-Dpegarules.logging.configuration=<path>/prlogging.xml
- prconfig:
-Dpegarules.config=<path>/prconfig.xml
As per the installation guide, you are advised (by Apache Tomcat) to create a custom script setEnv.sh where you can append the abovementioned JVM system properties to the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. Also ensure that the user under which Tomcat server runs has read/write/execute permission to the server filesystem <path> above.
~Ankur
Ameriprise Financial
US
Thanks all for the replies. As our Middleware team wants to do a repackage/redeploy rather than let us update the file in the war folder directly, the information on externalizing is very helpful. Thanks again.
Link Group
AU
On Tomcat on Windows, ensure you put each environmental variable setting on its own line:
