Starting and stopping the Engineering Test Management adapter as a Windows service

You can use the Windows service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

About this task

When you install Rational® Performance Tester, you must install the adapter as a Windows service. The default status of Startup Type is set to Manual.

Performance Tester adapter as a Windows service

Optionally, to configure the service to start automatically, you can right-click the adapter listing, and then select Properties. You can then select Automatic from the drop-down list in the Startup Type field. Therefore, the adapter can start automatically when you restart your computer and does not require you to log in.

Notes:
  • When you start the adapter as a service, you cannot run the Web UI tests of IBM® Rational® Test Workbench from IBM® Engineering Test Management.

  • You must not open Rational® Performance Tester in the same workspace while the adapter is running as a Windows service. You must stop the adapter before you open Rational® Performance Tester in the configured workspace.

When you run the adapter as a service, the status of the adapter is printed to the adapter.log file that can be accessed from product_install_dir\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter\logs.

You can also print the current status of the adapter by navigating to the product_install_dir\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter\bin\ directory, and then run the RQMAdapter.bat STATUS command.

Procedure

  1. Open the Windows services.
  2. Perform the following step either to start or stop the adapter:
    • Right-click IBM RTW-RPT-RST adapter for RQM and, then click Start to start the service.

      Note: The adapter is same for Rational® Test Workbench and Rational® Performance Tester.
    • Right-click IBM RTW-RPT-RST adapter for RQM and, then click Stop to stop the service.

Results

You have started or stopped the Engineering Test Management adapter as a Windows service.