Starting the service interface on an application server

To use the service interface to run and manage test- or production-level services, you must first start the service interface on its application server. After the service interface is started on the application server, any application can access the service interface at any time.

Before you can start the service interface, you must first install the service interface on a computer. The service interface is installed as a part of the IBM® InfoSphere® Optim™ Web Applications package, which also contains the manager and the connection manager. You must then configure and deploy the connection manager to an application server before you can deploy and start the service interface.

To start the service interface on an application server:

  1. Start the application server.
    If the application server is set to start the service interface web application automatically, then the service interface is started immediately after the application server.
    If you deployed the service interface to the version of WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition that is delivered with the manager, then complete the following step. In this step, shared_installation_directory is the installation directory that you specified for the manager.
    • Microsoft Windows computers: Click Start > All Programs > IBM InfoSphere > Optim > Start WAS-CE, or run the script shared_installation_directory\WebSphere\AppServerCommunityEdition\bin\startup.bat.
    • Linux® or UNIX computers: Run the script shared_installation_directory/WebSphere/AppServerCommunityEdition/bin/startup.sh.
  2. If the service interface is not started after a few minutes, start the service interface web application by using the application server console.
    If you deployed the service interface to the version of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition that is delivered with the manager, then complete the following steps:
    1. Use a web browser to access and sign into the Administrative Console.
      The default location is at http://hostname:port/console/, where hostname is the host name or IP address of the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition computer and port is the port number. The default port number is 8080.
      Use user ID system and password manager to access the Administrative Console.
    2. Click Web App WARs.
    3. Click Start for the component with an URL of /server.
To automate the starting of the service interface after you restart the computer, configure the application server as a Windows service or Linux or UNIX daemon.