By default, the Publisher checks the connection to Rhapsody, and provides a diagnosis. For some reason, you may want to ignore the status of this diagnosis, you can use the following option.
To ignore the diagnosis status, set the following option in publisher.properties file:
# Determines whether the publication can be run independently of the diagnostic result. Default: false
publisher.force.publication=true
To check the connection to Rhapsody, set the following option in publisher.properties file:
# Determines whether the publication can be run independently of the diagnostic result. Default: false
publisher.force.publication=false
If the publisher.force.publication property is not set in the publisher.properties file, the property is set to false, by default.