Saturday, March 2, 2013

Managing OATS Services Manually

Similar to LoadRunner[1], OATS (Oracle Application Testing Suite)[2] provides solution enables you to define and manage your application testing process, validate application functionality, and ensure that your applications will perform under load.

At the time of installation, there are three OATS services
  • OracleATSAgent
  • OracleATSHelper
  • OracleATSServer
deployed in the /etc/rc[0-6].d hierarchy and configured to start in runlevels 3, 4, and 5 automatically. In this article, we will show how to manage them using the following Linux commands
  • chkconfig[3]
  • service[4]

Checking Current Status and Startup Information



To list the current status of services, you can do:

# /sbin/service --status-all | grep OATS
OATS Agent Manager is running
OATS Helper Service is running

To list the current startup information for services, you can do:

bash-3.2# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep OracleATS
OracleATSAgent  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
OracleATSHelper 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
OracleATSServer 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Managing OATS Services Manually


You use chkconfig to disable starting services at boot time. By default, OATS services are configured to start in runlevels 3, 4 and 5 automatically.

To disable OATS init scripts, do the following
# chkconfig --level 345 OracleATSHelper off
# chkconfig --level 345 OracleATSServer off
# chkconfig --level 345 OracleATSAgent off
After you disable all OATS services, you can confirm the results with:

bash-3.2# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep OracleATS
OracleATSAgent  0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
OracleATSHelper 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
OracleATSServer 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

Then you can manage them with "service [start|stop]" command manually:

bash-3.2# /sbin/service OracleATSAgent status
OATS Agent Manager is running

bash-3.2# /sbin/service OracleATSAgent stop
Shutting down oats-am:                                     [  OK  ]

bash-3.2# /sbin/service OracleATSAgent status
OATS Agent Manager is not running

bash-3.2# /sbin/service OracleATSAgent start
Starting oats-am:                                          [  OK  ]

bash-3.2# /sbin/service OracleATSServer start
Starting OracleATSServer:Server is starting in running mode...

bash-3.2# /sbin/service OracleATSHelper start
Starting oats-hs:                                          [  OK  ]

Final Words


Be warned that OATS support team recommends you to use the original way of service set up, not this manual way of starting or stopping services.




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