Running Rational Quality Manager as a Windows service on a 32-bit computer

Apache Tomcat has the ability to run as a Microsoft® Windows® service. Running a server this way can be useful if you want to run the Rational® Quality Manager Jazz™ server on a Windows-based computer without having to be logged on.

Before you begin

The following procedure requires a batch file that is installed with Rational Quality Manager 2.0.1 and later. If you are running an older version of the product, no batch file is provided. See http://jazz.net/library/techtip/72 for further details about setting up the Windows service manually and using other supported databases.

About this task

To run Rational Quality Manager as a Windows service under Apache Tomcat:

Procedure

  1. Open a command prompt, and change to the InstallDir\server directory.
  2. To start the service, type rqm.service.bat install version ,

    where version is a unique identifier that you can assign to a particular version of Rational Quality Manager in the case where you have multiple versions of the product installed. Do not uses spaces in the identifier. This identifier is displayed in the list of Windows services. With the unique identifier, you can identify this version of the product from others that might be running.

  3. After the service starts, verify that the server is running by logging on to the server from your browser.
  4. To remove the service, enter rqm.service.bat remove version ,

    where version is a unique ID that you assign for running that version of the product as a Windows service.

Example

To run version 2.0.1 as a Windows service, enter rqm.service.bat install 2.0.1.

To remove the Windows service for version 2.0.1, enter rqm.service.bat remove 2.0.1.


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