The Metadata Manager Agent uses HTTP to communicate with the Metadata Manager Service when you load a resource.

Metadata Manager Agent connects to the Metadata Manager Service using the default port 19983 or any port you specify in the Tomcat configuration file, server.xml. You can verify or update the port number in the Tomcat configuration file that is available in the following location:

After you install the Metadata Manager Agent, verify that the agent and the Metadata Manager Service can communicate.

You can use one of the following options to verify that the agent and the Metadata Manager Service can communicate:

If the commands fails, make sure that the Metadata Manager Service and the Metadata Manager Agent service are available. If the machines are separated by a firewall, contact the administrator to make the port numbers available.

To view the home page of the Metadata Manager agent when you access the

http://server:port/MIMBWebServices

URL, you can perform the following steps:

Stop the Metadata Manager Agent service.
Navigate to the
<MM_Agent_HOME>\MetadataManagerAgent\tomcat\bin
location.
Open the
setenv.bat
file.
Append the parameter
-D"miti.debug=true"
after the following line in the file:
"set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms%M_START_MEMORY%M -Xmx%M_MAX_MEMORY%M -D"catalina.data=%CATALINA_DATA%" -D"connector.port=%M_CONNECTOR_PORT%" -D"shutdown.port=%M_SHUTDOWN_PORT%"
Start the Metadata Manager Agent service.
Access the
http://server:port/MIMBWebServices
Metadata Manager Agent URL from a web browser.