BW6.X - How to start BusinessWorks 6.X appnodes and applications automatically at server boot

This is a common question and the answer is quiet simple.

The simplest approach to start appnodes and applications automatically after a server boot is to use the ‘startBWAppNode.sh’ scripts generated when an appnode is created.

There is one such script for each appnode and it is located in the following folder :

<TIBCO_HOME>\bw\6.7\domains\<DOMAIN_NAME>\appnodes\<APPSPACE_NAME>\<APPNODE_NAME>\bin

Note that this script is used when starting an appnode from the TEA or from bwadmin. If you need something to be done at appnode start-up, like for example loading Hawk rules, you can then safely update the script to include the needed action.

To start applications automatically you can consider the two following approaches:

#1 Default behaviour

By default BusinessWorks remember the state of each application (‘Running’ or ‘Stopped’) at the moment the appnode was shutdown.

This is managed in the following file: <TIBCO_HOME>\bw\6.6\domains\<DOMAIN>\appspaces\<APPSPACE>\apps\<Application>\<Version>\<Application>_<Version>.config (for example: /opt/tibco/bw/6.7/domains/TEST/appspaces/AS01/apps/TestApp.application/1.0/ TestApp.application_1.0.config).

Then when the appnode is restarted, applications that were in ‘Running’ state are restarted and the others are not.

#2 — Starting all applications when an appnode is restarted

This can be done by updating the following property in the appnode config.ini file (uncomment and set the property to ‘true’):

bw.engine.start.all.applications.on.appnode.startup=true

The config.ini file is located in the following folder:

<TIBCO_HOME>\bw\6.7\domains\<DOMAIN_NAME>\appnodes\<APPSPACE_NAME>\<APPNODE_NAME>

In Windows environment you can also use the approach to run appnodes as Windows services, this is described in the following article :

https://community.tibco.com/articles/tibco-activematrix-businessworks/bw6x-how-to-run-businessworks-6x-bwagents-and-appnodes-as-windows-services-r3378/

You may also refer to the following support KB article :

https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Tibco-KnowledgeArticle-Article-43897

Additional elements:

Scripts to start and stop appnodes are attached.

TIBCOScriptsENG.zip