To start running Rational® DOORS® Web Access, you must start
its components in a specific order.
Before you begin
Review the Installation roadmap for Rational DOORS Web Access and related help topics for
prerequisites, installation topology and minimum requirements, and license options.
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. These interruptions can stop the interoperation server and cause Rational
DOORS Web Access to fail.
If your version of Rational
DOORS Web Access is earlier than 9.5.2.1, then see this
topic in a previous version of the help.
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. Also, add this command line
parameter to the script: -Dderby.drda.portNumber=%DERBY_PORT%. Alternatively, you
can add the following entry with the new port number in the
derby/derby.properties file:
derby.drda.portNumber=derby_port_number.
- Start the web access broker:
- On the computer that hosts the web access broker, log in as the
owner of Rational DOORS Web Access.
- Go 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.
For more startup options, see
Command-line switches for the Rational
DOORS client and interoperation server.
- Start the web access server:
- On the computer that hosts the web access server, log in as the
owner of Rational DOORS Web Access.
- Go to the directory where you installed Rational
DOORS Web Access.
- Enter server.start.sh.