Before you can generate Forge metrics, you have tell Forge the port on which to set up the Forge Metrics Web service. By doing so, you also turn Forge metrics on.
In the Endeca Application Controller, you set the web-service-port when you provision the Forge component. You can do this three ways:
Outside of the Application Controller environment, you can also set or change the Web service port (and thus turn on Forge metrics) at the Forge commandline. The commandline argument for setting the metrics port is --wsport .<port-number>
You can enable SSL on the Forge component to make the Forge Metrics Web service secure.
For information about enabling SSL on the Forge component programmatically or while provisioning with eaccmd, see the Endeca Application Controller Guide.
Note
The Web services port disregards the cipher sub-element of the ssl-configuration element.
