Problem

When running the InterPlay/extra/Tools/startConsole.sh multiple times in a shell script, each call of the InterPlay console starts a separate process, and most of the time that is not spent on Interplay server, is the time it takes to start the Interplay console.

Resolution

There is a way to decrease the start time of the console: just add a new property called ComponentUrl in the file InterPlay/extra/Tools/configuration/configuration.properties. The value of the property should be the URL of InterPlay which can be found in Administration UI on Interplay component's page.

As example, the new property should look like this:

ComponentUrl=https://interplay_hostname:8443/interplay-web

Adding this property will help the Interplay console to quickly know the URL of the InterPlay server and it won't be needed to start the config-repository, where this information is stored otherwise (the initialization of the Repository is the part that takes most of the time when the console is started).