Prerequisites to Run STW.EXE with Silk Central

To run STW.EXE with a Silk Central execution server and to successfully connect to a Silk Test Workbench database, the following prerequisites are required:

1. Run the Silk Central execution server as a process, and not as a service.
2. Use database authentication to connect to the Silk Test Workbench database. Silk Test Workbench can use Windows authentication or database authentication when connecting to a Silk Test Workbench SQL Server database.
3. Configure the database server instance to use a static port.

If these prerequisites are not met, Silk Test Workbench might return the following error when trying to run STW.EXE with a Silk Central execution server:

Error 3: DSN, username, or password incorrect.