"Run Administrative Console" menu becomes disabled with RAD 9 and WebSphere 8.5

Question

I'm using RAD 9.0 with a local WebSphere Application Server v8.5. Twice the "Run Administrative Console" menu has become disabled:

This happened randomly; it was working one day when I left, and the next morning it isn't working.

When this happened before, the only way I found to fix it was to create a new profile, which required me to set up all of my data sources and environment variables all over again. I don't want to do that again.

How can I fix this?

Solution

I have ran into this issue before, but it did not occur randomly. Have you tried running RAD as administrator? In windows 7 you can do this by going to the start menu then right-clicking on the RAD application and choosing run as administrator. I have found that the administrative console is not available if I do not start RAD this way.