While in rare cases it is needed to use OSGi commands to analyse problems occurring in a BusinessWorks application this article presents the most simple way to do that.

The approach is to use curl to send commands thru the available appnode OSGi http.

# How to find the appnode OSGi port number

You can find it in the appnode config.ini file, located in the folder <TIBCO_HOME>/bw/6.X/domains/<DOMAIN_NAME>/appnodes/<APPSPACE_NAME>/<APPNODE_NAME>

For example :

You can also find it using the bwadmin command with the following options:
bwadmin –d <DOMAIN_NAME> -a <APPSPACE_NAME> appnode <APPNODE_NAME>

# How to send an OSGi command using Curl

This can be done with the following command:

curl -v http://localhost:<PORT>/bw/framework.json/osgi?command=<COMMAND>

For example :

curl -v http://localhost:9585/bw/framework.json/osgi?command=la

You can use the command ‘help’ to get the list of all available commands.

The list of available commands is also available, with additional explanations, in the BWCE documentation at the following URL:
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/bwce/2.6.1/doc/html/GUID-4AC8019F-701F-48BD-BC44-2A293E4C3796.html

# Useful to know

In a BusinessWorks 6.X context this approach can only be used while being connected on the machine where the appnode is running (for security reasons).

In a BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE) context this approach is the only one available, explanations on how to use Curl in a container environment are available in the BWCE documentation:
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/bwce/2.9.1/doc/html/Default.htm#bwce-app-monitoring/using-http-client-to.htm