Using iWay Service Manager Startup Command Line Switches

You can use various command line switches to start iWay Service Manager (iSM) for special processing control. To view a list of all available switches use the -> or -help command line options.

Note: If you are using the standard provided startup scripts, you must specify an iSM configuration to add the switches. For example:

iway61 base -help

Key startup command line switches are listed and described in the following table.

Startup Command Line Switch

Description

-config <name>

Name of a specific iSM configuration to start, which is required to start iSM.

-b

Starts iSM in hot backup mode. If your iSM instance shadows another iSM instance for backup purposes (as configured in the Backup Settings section of the iSM Administration Console), using the -b startup command line switch starts iSM as the shadowing (backup) server. This switch does not apply to backup situations where a backup listener controls the backup process.

-n <name>

Sets the name that is assigned to iSM. Usually this is the host or configuration name, but can be modified by this switch. The use of this startup command line switch is reserved for future use.

-v

Displays current version information for your iSM instance.

-r

Bypasses the use of a startup process flow. iSM will start without attempting to run the configured startup process flow.

-u

Ignores the iSM Authentication Realm settings and uses the iSM Administration Console realm instead. You can use this startup command line switch in a scenario where you are required to adjust the realm information and cannot access the iSM Administration Console to do so because a realm (such as LDAP) is unreachable.

Additional startup command line switches are used internally by iSM, and are not recommended for use in production environments.


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