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.

References

1. LoadRunner
2. Oracle Application Testing Suite
3. Linux / Unix Command: chkconfig
4. Service - run a System V init script
5. Using chkconfig & /sbin/service to manage run start up scripts in RedHat
6. How to Restart OATS Services (Xml and More)
7. OATS: Tie All Processes Together — from OpenScript to Scenario (Xml and More)