Manually start the Watson Query Remote Agent on Linux

Manually start the Watson Query Remote Agent for immediate use.

About this task

The following steps allow you to manually start the Remote Agent. By using this method, the Remote Agent does not restart automatically when your system is restarting.

Note: The installation prefix for IBM Java and Watson Query Remote Agent in the examples is /home/<Operating system user>/wqAgent.

Procedure

Change to the installation directory where the Remote Agent was configured.

Run the following command on Linux®:

nohup ./datavirtualization_start.sh &> wqagent.log &

To validate and view that the Remote Agent is running, navigate to the Data Sources page from the Watson Query web client. Each connected remote connector is displayed on a new line.