Starting a service

You can start individual services in IBM® Product Master from the command \-line.

Before you begin

Before you can start a service, you must:

Ensure that the service is not already running. See Checking the status of the system and all services to determine what services you are currently running.
Ensure that the machines are listed in the admin_properties.xml configuration file, if you are running services on other machines in a horizontal clustering environment.

Note: If you start a service with the name of a service that is already running, the service that is running is first aborted then restarted.

Ensure that the RMI registry is running.
You must start the RMI registry before you start any services. To start the RMI registry, run the svc_control.sh --action=start --svc_name=<rmi service name> script.
Run the shell script of the specified service from the <install dir>/bin/go directory. For Product Master services, the svc_control script is useful for displaying information about the configuration of a service. The <install dir>/bin/go/svc_control.sh –action=show_config –svc_name=<svc full name> script displays all configuration information that includes the class path and JVM system properties that are used to start a service.
1. Display a list of the full names for all the services that are running on your system. Type svc_control --action=list.
2. Start a service on your system. Type svc_control --action=start --svc_name=<full name>.

In this example, the scheduler service is started and given the service name sch1.

svc_control --action=start --svc_name=sch1_MYHOST

You can check the status of the service to ensure that it is started correctly, see Getting the short status of a service.