Hi Des,

So RBF sits at a higher level than RAFW, so RAFW doesn't know anything about RBF or its agents. You can only execute RAFW actions on the RBF/RAFW server. Its not supported (and it won't work) to execute actions from the target systems themselves.

If you want to use RAFW actions to install the EAR, you will have to upload the EAR to the RAFW server and execute the actions from there. No way to get around that if you want to use RAFW to install the EAR.

The new RAF 3.0 has a new Eclipse based client that works with a server component of RAF to allow administrators to access the user environment tree and make modifications to the RAF environments all from their workstations, and have the client push those back out onto the server. With their changes pushed out, they can then use the client to define and run RBF projects to push their changes back into the WebSphere cells, all without having to log into the RBF/RAF server directly. Here is some more info on the new version of RAF

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=4021&uid=swg24030588

Jesse

Hi,

Has anyone been able to get RAFW to execute using an RBF Agent on a node other than the RBF server? For security reasons we do not want to give end users access to the filesystem on the RBF server (for the purposes of uploading EARs).

Thanks.

Des