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.
Parent topic: Silk Test Workbench Tests