Starting and running services for Data Protection for VMware

By default, when you start the Windows operating system, recovery agent is started under the Local System Account.

Running recovery agent services on Microsoft Windows

When you start the recovery agent from the Windows Start menu, the service is automatically stopped. When the recovery agent, started from the Start menu finishes, the service starts automatically. In addition, for these operating systems, the service does not provide a GUI. In order to use the GUI, go to the Windows Start menu and select All Programs > IBM Spectrum Protect > Data Protection for VMware > recovery agent.

Data Protection for VMware command-line interface

You can verify that the Data Protection for VMware command-line interface is running by completing the following task:

Windows operating systems Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and verify that the status of Data Protection for VMware command-line interface is Started.

Go to the scripts directory (/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdpvmware/common/scripts/) and issue this command:

./vmclid status

If the daemon is not running, issue this command to manually start the daemon:
```
/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdpvmware/common/scripts/vmcli --daemon
```
These init scripts can also be used to stop and start the daemon:
```
./vmclid stop
./vmclid start
```