Starting up the cloud services software

This topic describes how to start the cloud services software on IBM Storage Scale nodes.

Before you try to start cloud services on a node, ensure that the node is designated as a cloud services node. For more information, see Designating the cloud services nodes.

Start the cloud services before you run any of the cloud services commands.

To start cloud services, issue a command according to this syntax:

mmcloudgateway service start [-N {alltct | Node[,Node...] | NodeFile | NodeClass}]

For example, to start the service on all transparent cloud tiering nodes in a cluster, issue this command:

mmcloudgateway service start -N alltct

To start the service on all cloud services nodes as provided in the node class, TCTNodeClass1, issue this command:

mmcloudgateway service start -N TCTNodeClass1

If you provide this command without any arguments, the service is started on the current node.

If you have more than one node class, then you must start the cloud services individually on each node class, as follows:

mmcloudgateway service start -N TCTNodeClass1

mmcloudgateway service start -N TCTNodeClass2

It is a good practice to verify that the service is started. Enter a command like the following one:

mmcloudgateway service status -N TCTNodeClass

Note: You can run this command from any node in the cluster, not necessarily from a node that is part of a node class.

Next step: See Managing a cloud storage account.