Starting the SLM servers

If the SLM server is not already started during the installation, you can start the SLM server service manually through $SLMHOME\etc\rc.start

Starting the SLM server on Windows

You can start the SLM server service with the Windows Services control panel.

Starting the SLM server on UNIX

To start the SLM server at boot time, create an rc file that is read and carried out by the init process. This file is platform-specific.

For example, on AIX, you can use the extra run level a:

/etc/inittab:
...
slm:a:once:/usr/bin/su - SLM – c
export SLMHOME=/usr/slm
/usr/slm/bin/SlmServer [-p portnumber] [-s] > /dev/console
			 2>&1
/etc/rc:
...
dspmsg rc.cat 5 'Multi-user initialization
			 completed\n'
/usr/sbin/telinit a
exit 0

Ensure that your SLMHOME variable is pointing to the SLM installation directory.

Ensure to use the -p option if another port then 6005 is used, unless you use a slmconfig file (etc/servercfg.xml) to define start up parameters.

Ensure to provide the -s option if this SLM server must run in slave mode, unless you use an slmconfig file (etc/servercfg.xml) to define startup parameters.

You can manually stop and restart the SLM server with the rc.stop and rc.start scripts located in this folder: $SLMHOME/etc