Now we have completed the installation or upgrade of our Blackboard Learn instance. Blackboard has on-board ability to manage its services. These allow you to control when Bb-Tomcat
, Bb-Collab
, and the web service (either Apache or IIS) are available to users. These three services start the different components we mentioned in Chapter 1, Planning a Blackboard Learn Instance. For clarification, Bb-Tomcat
is the service that oversees the starting and stopping of the Tomcat server and Bb-Collab
controls the collaboration server. The utilities that we will discuss should be run by the user that we created during the installation of our instance. The two biggest options we need to discuss would be ServiceController
and PushConfigUpdates
.
The ServiceController
utility available to administrators resides in the tools\admin
subfolder of the Blackboard home
folder. If you are working on an application server, such as making changes or fixing a bug, this will stop...