HQ install
Sh To started InformixHQ with java -jar, saw no output and could not reach port 8080 remotely. Andreas Legner said it simply runs in the foreground and needs nohup. Doug Lawry suggested checking firewalls; the internal firewall was the cause and it worked. Benjamin Thompson offered a systemd service definition and Vicente Salvador Cubedo an IIUG article.
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Hello, Based on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/informix-servers/14.10?topic=started-starting-informixhq-server I try to install HQ Java is installed, and when I run this command : java -jar informixhq-server.jar informixhq-server.properties The command hangs without any output. A h2db.mv.db was created And the last rows in informixhq-server.log are 2021-08-10 14:33:27.305 [main] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.util.log - Logging initialized @1608ms 2021-08-10 14:33:27.330 [main] INFO com.informix.hq.server.JettyServer - Serving UI from JAR... 2021-08-10 14:33:27.402 [main] INFO com.informix.hq.server.JettyServer - Configuring server for HTTP on port 8080 2021-08-10 14:33:27.417 [main] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - jetty-9.3.z-SNAPSHOT 2021-08-10 14:33:28.660 [main] INFO o.e.j.server.handler.ContextHandler - Started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@6754ef00{/,jar:file:/IDS/informix/hq/informixhq-server.jar!/webapp/,AVAILABLE} 2021-08-10 14:33:28.720 [main] INFO o.e.jetty.server.AbstractConnector - Started ServerConnector@5d332969{HTTP/1.1,[http/1.1]}{0.0.0.0:8080} 2021-08-10 14:33:28.720 [main] INFO org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server - Started @3024ms 2021-08-10 14:33:28.721 [main] INFO c.i.h.s.j.RepositoryDataCleanupManager - Next runtime for data cleanup: 2021-08-11 00:00:00 Any idea ? Thanks ------------------------------ Sh To ------------------------------ #Informix
I'd say it is simply running. It doesn't daemonize, so starting it from command line requires running it under 'nohup' (and in background). ------------------------------ Andreas Legner ------------------------------
Hello, I forgot to say that i cannot reach the "web page" http://myserverip:8080 I don't have GUI on the HQ server, so I try to open it from another computer. This could be the problem ?? Now i see that the doc gives this address (localhost) : http://localhost:8080/ I just found this https://docs.deistercloud.com/mediaContent/Databases.30/IBM%20Informix.2/media/informixhq_Architecture.png There is any configuration to reach the HQ server from the network ? Thanks ------------------------------ Sh To ------------------------------
See article here: https://www.oninitgroup.com/faq-items/informixhq-setup Later IDS versions provide a start/stop script, but we still prefer ours! See another thread on this forum for a startup sensor solution. You should be able to connect to 8080 from another machine provided a firewall is not blocking it and you have that port exposed if using Docker. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------
Of course !!!! I thought about the network firewall but i forgot the internal one. It works Thanks ------------------------------ Sh To ------------------------------
Hi Doug, Assuming you're using Linux, it would not be too much extra work to make your script work with systemd, which has many advantages. A systemd service definition like this would work if the PIDFile and ExecStart settings matched your set up. On RHEL/CentOS you would put this content in a file /etc/systemd/system/informixhq-server.service [Unit] Description = InformixHQ server Documentation = https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.ifxhq.doc/informixhq.htm After = network.target [Service] Type = forking User = informixhq Group = informixhq PIDFile = /home/informixhq/informixhq-server.pid ExecStart = /opt/informixhq-server/InformixHQ.sh startserver SuccessExitStatus = 143 Restart = always [Install] WantedBy = multi-user.target ------------------------------ Benjamin Thompson ------------------------------
Hi Ben. Indeed, though my current preference is to have a startup sensor which both stops and restarts HQ which doesn't always cope with IDS being bounced rather than the host being rebooted. A proper article on this is in the works... ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------
Also, If you are using RHEL or similar Linux, you can see at this IIUG Blog post about how to start HQ as a service https://www.iiug.org/en/2020/05/11/managing-informix-services-in-systemd/ ------------------------------ Vicente Salvador Cubedo ------------------------------
Thank you ------------------------------ Sh To ------------------------------