Starting and stopping HCL® Quality Server
You can start HCL® Quality Server to enable users to log in by using a web browser. If the server is installed as a service, you can configure it for automatic startup on boot or for manual startup on demand.
About this task
On Windows™ systems, the server is, by default, configured to be installed as a service, and for automatic startup on boot. If you cleared these selections during the installation, then use the Modify option of Installation Manager to update the installation. See Starting and stopping on Windows systems.
On non-Windows systems, after installation, you must manually configure the server as a service.
See the following procedures for non-Windows systems:
Note: You must run commands as an Administrator from the Windows command line.
Starting and stopping on Windows systems
Procedure
Start and stop the server from the Windows command line:
-
Start the server from the command line. Run the
startup.bat
file from the default locationC:\Program Files\HCL\HCLProducts\QualityServer\bin
. -
Stop the server from the command line. Run the
shutdown.bat
file from the default locationC:\Program Files\HCL\HCLProducts\QualityServer\bin
.
Start and stop the server if the server was installed as a Windows™ service:
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Start the service from the Start menu. Click
.
Note: By default, the server is configured to start automatically on boot.
- Stop the service from the Start menu. Click .
Modify the Windows™ service from automatic
startup to manual startup:
-
Follow these steps to change from automatic startup to manual startup:
Starting and stopping on non-Windows systems
Before you begin
About this task
/opt/HCL/HCLProducts/QualityServer/bin
.Procedure
Start the server on non-Windows systems. Do one of the following steps:
-
If you are using the init shell script run the
startup.sh
file from the default location or where you installed HCL® Quality Server. -
If you are using the systemd script, follow these steps:
Stop the server on non-Windows systems. Do one of the following steps:
-
If you are using the init shell script, run the
shutdown.sh
file from the default location:/opt/HCL/HCLProducts/QualityServer/bin
. -
If you are using the systemd script, run
sudo systemctl stop hqs
.
Configure automatic start on boot on non-Windows systems. Do one of the following
steps.
-
Follow these steps to configure automatic start on boot for the init shell script:
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Follow these steps to configure automatic start on boot for the systemd script:
Configuring automatic start on boot on RedHat Linux systems
Before you begin
About this task
The steps for RedHat Linux systems are different from those for non-Windows systems.
Procedure
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Add the
startup.sh
script to the path/etc/init.d
. -
Create symbolic links to the script in the run-level folders, for example,
/etc/rc3.d
. -
Edit
startup.sh
(located at both/etc/init.d
and/etc/rc3.d
) by using the following command:nano startup.sh
. -
Replace the following lines:
#!/bin/sh . /opt/HCL/QualityServer/bin/setenv.sh /opt/HCL/QualityServer/bin/server start defaultServer
with the following:#!/bin/sh #chkconfig: 345 99 01 #description: startup.sh . /opt/HCL/QualityServer/bin/setenv.sh /opt/HCL/QualityServer/bin/server start defaultServer
This adds
startup.sh
tochkconfig
. -
Run the following command:
ntsysv
.This command runs
startup.sh
automatically on boot.