Enabling the REST API outside of awinstall

Products

• CA Automic Applications Manager (AM)

Issue/Introduction

With Applications Manager 9.6.0, the REST API was introduced.  It can be enabled when awinstall is run to update the system.  Is there a way to enable it outside of awinstall if you don't want to run awinstall again to enable it?

Environment

AM: 9.6.0 and above

Resolution

You should be able to do the following:

1. Navigate to the $AW_HOME directory (on linux - windows will be %AW_HOME%)
2. cd to the site directory and open the awenv.ini file
3. Under the [Install] section, make sure that there is an APACHE_PORT specified
4. Under the APACHE_PORT, also add the following line:
   
   ENABLE_API=Y
   
   
5. Save the changes to the awenv.ini file
6. Source the sosite file
7. stop all processes currently running (the RMI Server requires a restart to pick up changes to awenv.ini):
   
   stopso all
   
   
8. start the processes using:
   
   startso all
   
   
9. The api server should now be running.  One linux you can see this by running a ps command:
   
   ps -ef|grep api-server.jar