To start running Rational® DOORS® Web Access, you must start
its components in a specific order.
Before you begin
Before you start the interoperation server, you must set up
a valid DISPLAY variable and then make it accessible to the user who
starts the interoperation server. You can use either an X server or
virtual DISPLAY with a solution, such as Xvfb.
Attention: Do
not use a remote DISPLAY variable. If you export a DISPLAY variable
from another system for the interoperation server to use, the interoperation
server becomes vulnerable to network interruptions that can stop the
interoperation server and cause Rational DOORS Web Access to fail.
About this task
If users and groups are managed in IBM® Rational Directory
Server, and the directory server is backed up or restarted, users
cannot log in to the web client until all of the interoperation servers
are restarted.
For instructions to start Rational DOORS Web
Access on Linux systems when
the server starts, see technote 1420620.
The Derby installation supports data exchange and reporting that uses tracked resource sets (TRS)
and the Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE). For more information, see Tracking changes by using TRS and LQE
Procedure
- If your system is configured for data exchange and reporting, start the Derby database server.
Browse to the directory where you installed Rational DOORS Web Access and run
derby.start.sh.
Important: If you use a Derby port number other than the default port 1527, you must
change the value of the DERBY_PORT variable in the
derby.start.sh script before you run the script.
- If your version of Rational
DOORS Web Access is earlier than 9.5.2.1, then run the
script dwa_install/derby/scripts/init_trs.sh.
Important: If you use a Derby port number other than the default port 1527, you
must change the value of the DERBY_PORT variable in the
init_settings.sh script before you run the script.
- Start the web access broker:
- On the computer that hosts the web access broker, log in as the
owner of Rational DOORS Web Access.
- Navigate to the directory where you installed Rational DOORS Web
Access.
- Enter broker.start.sh.
- If the Rational
DOORS database server is not already started, start
it.
- Configure and start the interoperation server:
- On the computer that hosts the interoperation server, log in as
the owner of Rational DOORS Web Access.
- Set these environment variables:
DOORSHOME=doors-home-path
DOORSDATA=36677@myserver
PATH=$DOORSHOME/bin:$PATH
export DOORSHOME PATH DOORSDATA
where the DOORSHOME variable
relates to where the interoperation server is installed. This variable
might be different from the DOORSHOME variable
that you use for the database server.
- Browse to $DOORSHOME/bin and start the interoperation
server by entering its command-line attributes in this format:
./doors9 -interop -data port@myserver -brokerHost myBroker -brokerPort brokerport &
where:
- port is the port number that
the Rational DOORS database server is using.
- myserver is the name of the
system where the Rational DOORS database server is installed.
- myBroker is the name of the
system that hosts the broker.
- brokerport is the port that
the broker is using, which by default is 61616.
- Start the web access server:
- On the computer that hosts the web access server, log in as the
owner of Rational DOORS Web Access.
- Navigate to the directory where you installed Rational DOORS Web
Access.
- Enter server.start.sh.