Accessing Rational Application Developer or Rational Test Workbench using a VNC client

Use a VNC viewer to access the desktop for Rational® Application Developer or Rational Test Workbench in the cloud.

Before you begin

About this task

Using a Virtual Network Connection (VNC) client, you access the deployed instance and run the Rational Application Developer or Rational Test Workbench desktop application.

Procedure

  1. Open your VNC client. VNC Viewer is used in this procedure.
  2. Enter localhost:2 for the virtuser user, then click Connect.
    Note: You can also use localhost:1 for the root user, though best practice is to log in as virtuser. There are known issues with root VNC access, including requirements that root access to VNC be enabled in the deployment and that your SSH tunneling session is being run for root.
  3. When prompted, enter the VNC password for virtuser, then click OK. The VNC password was set when the pattern was deployed.
  4. Launch Rational Application Developer or Rational Test Workbench.

Access without SSH tunneling

Before you begin

The instance must be deployed with VNC uses SSH Tunneling set to False. The default is True and requires access using SSH tunneling.

Procedure

  1. Look up the hostname for your deployed instance. See the appropriate topic: .
  2. Open your VNC client. VNC Viewer is used in this procedure.
  3. Enter hostname:2 for the virtuser user, then click Connect.
    Note: You can also use hostname:1 for the root user, though best practice is to log in as virtuser. There are known issues with root VNC access, including the requirement that root access to VNC be enabled in the deployment.
  4. When prompted, enter the VNC password for virtuser, then click OK. The VNC password was set when the pattern was deployed.
  5. Launch Rational Application Developer or Rational Test Workbench.
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