You can start the Tivoli® Storage Manager server as a Windows service, which is the preferred method, or in the foreground.
On the Windows operating system, you must close all applications before you log off. As a production server, Tivoli Storage Manager must be available to clients 24 hours a day. At many sites, it is a security exposure to leave an administrator ID logged on at an unattended computer. The solution is to run the server as a Windows service. When you run the server as a service, it can be configured to start automatically when the system is restarted.
Alternatively, if you plan to configure the server or use it in a test environment, you might want to start the server in the foreground. When you start the server in the foreground, Tivoli Storage Manager provides a special administrator user ID that is named SERVER_CONSOLE. All server messages are displayed directly on the screen. The messages can be useful for debugging startup problems.
If you install a Tivoli Storage Manager server and run it in the foreground, you must stop the server in the foreground before you start the server as a service. Similarly, if you start the server as a Windows service, you must stop the server before you can successfully start it in the foreground.
Starting the server as a Windows service Starting the server in the foreground