Connecting Dsigner to my WebMethods server

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 9, 2014, 4:28pm

Can some tell me how I can get Designer 8.2, that is being used for CAF/Portlet development, to see a remote My webMethods server?

Designer is installed on a Laptop and the MWS is running at a remote location and I am trying to get the the two talk to each other so I can do CAF/Portlet development remotely. I looked through the documentation for the install process and the CAF Development help but didn’t see anything that tells me how to do this.

Rankesh_Kumar1 · April 9, 2014, 4:44pm

Hi Gilbert,

Open UI Perspective → Servers → Right Click → New → Server → My webMethods Server (Remote).

HTH.

Thanks,
Rankesh

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 9, 2014, 5:03pm

I’m a new to this install/setup process so excuse my ignorance.

I did what you suggest and it looks like it tried to connect but it says that it was unable to start the server but the remote server is already running. I don’t understand this.

Here is the exact message:

Server My webMethods Server (Remote) at NRS was unable to start within 20 seconds. If the server requires more time, try increasing the timeout in the server editor.

Rankesh_Kumar1 · April 9, 2014, 7:09pm

Hi Gilbert,

Please share the version of your designer. If you have access to update manager and empower, please update your designer.

HTH.

Thanks,
Rankesh

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 9, 2014, 9:01pm

It’s Designer 8.2

I did a new install on my laptop this morning. So I would expect to have the latest version of Designer. Is that a correct assumption?

Rankesh_Kumar1 · April 10, 2014, 6:32am

Hi Gilbert,

Please check the last post of this thread: MWS Admin Tab in Designer - webMethods - Software AG Tech Community & Forums

HTH.

Thanks,
Rankesh

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 10, 2014, 2:48pm

I think that helped but things are still not setup correctly.

When I try to run a simple test portlet on the remote MWS nothing happens. I was expecting to see a preview of the portlet. The one youtube tutorial I saw has a log in screen appear where you type in sysadmin for the username and the password and then the portlet shows up as it would in a browser. This is not happening for me.

Why?

Is there more setup that need to be done?

Rankesh_Kumar1 · April 10, 2014, 3:07pm

You need to follow the same procedure and create My webMethods Preview Server.

HTH.

Thanks,
Rankesh

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 10, 2014, 3:35pm

I did but I can’t get it to work.
When I try to set up a preview server it will not allow it to be set up as a remote server. When I set it up as a localhost It doesn’t work. So, could you please give me step by step instructions on how to get the preview server to work?

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 10, 2014, 4:55pm

I have preview server configured as local host and I am able to start the preview server but when I try to run my test portlet using the preview server I get this error:

Rankesh_Kumar1 · April 10, 2014, 5:08pm

It seems some other application server is running on 8888 port. Change the port of preview server to some other say 8889.

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 10, 2014, 5:30pm

Where do you do that? I can’t find any place where you can set the port for the preview server.

Rankesh_Kumar1 · April 10, 2014, 5:49pm

edit the following file:

.metadata.plugins\com.webMethods.caf.server.wmportal\previewserver\config\jetty.xml

replace:

with
8889

and start your MWS Preview server at 8889.

HTH.

Thanks,
Rankesh

Gilbert_Gnarley · April 10, 2014, 8:40pm

That did not work I now get this error:

I tried to correct it but I have not been able to. I even shutdown designer and tried restarting but it did not work either. I have no database installed locally is that the issue?

Is there any way of configuring a remote preview server? That is what I was originally trying to do but was not able to.