BuildForge Monitor - Additional Info

Hi All,

I wanted to provide some additional information regarding the BuildForge Monitor in case anyone else ran into similar questions.

BF Monitor - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/downloads/08/bf_monitor_guide/index.html

**This version of the monitor is for an older release of the product and you would need a newer version to work with 7.1.1.3 or above**

The customer had the following questions:

1) In the bfmonitor.conf file that we created are the following two properties the same as the host and port for the Management console, if not how do we find what they should be?
bf.services.host=localhost
bf.services.port=3966

2) After we copy the BuildForgeMonitor.war to $CATALINA_HOME\webapps do we need to restart the console?

3) If we have to make changes to the bfmonitor.conf do we need to restart the console?

4) If I want to test that the Monitor is working is there a URL that we can hit? We tried going to http://<hostname>/BuildForgeMonitor/buildResults.faces but got a not found error.

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Answers from dev team:

1) The host and port there are for the BF services layer. So that value would be set to whatever those values are for the services layer. What you have there would work for the default services port and assumes that the monitor is collocated with BF.

2) Maybe. If the tomcat is the tomcat packaged with Build Forge then yes you would need to restart BF. But the monitor could be deployed on an independent tomcat in which case you would only have to restart the tomcat server.

3) Same answer as above. If you change the settings you would need to restart the tomcat server.

4) You would need to go to http://hostname:<TOMCAT>/BuildForgeMonitor. By default the tomcat port is 8080.

Hi,

Any idea where I can find/download a version of the Build Forge monitor to work with 7.1.1.3 or above?

While I'm unsure if this is officially supported