AWI on UNIX using Jetty stops when started not in background

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• CA Automic One Automation

Issue/Introduction

Starting AWI from Jetty using the command below will stop when closing the UNIX/Linux command prompt.

 

 java -jar aa-webui-launcher.jar 

Environment

Release : 21.0.4

Cause

Running the command below will not run the process in the background. So, closing the UNIX/Linux command prompt will also stop the process.

 

 java -jar aa-webui-launcher.jar 

 

Resolution

Please use the command below. This will run the process in the background.

nohup java -jar aa-webui-launcher.jar &

An alternative is to use the service manager to start the jetty AWI