The Enterprise Gateway can also be started in service mode
as a Windows service, or as a daemon on Linux and Solaris systems.
Windows
The following instructions describe how to install, start, stop, and remove the
Enterprise Gateway as a Windows service. The following examples refer to the directory
in which you installed the Enterprise Gateway as INSTALL_DIR .
You can install and start the Enterprise Gateway as a Windows Service from the
Enterprise Gateway Windows Program Group. You can also stop and remove the Service
from this group. The Enterprise Gateway Program Group is available from the following
location:
Start -> All Programs ->
Enterprise Gateway -> Service
The following options are available from this group:
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Install:
Installs the Enterprise Gateway as a Service.
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Start:
Starts the Enterprise Gateway as a Service. You must install the Enterprise Gateway
as a Windows Service using the Install option before you
can start the service.
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Stop:
Stop the Enterprise Gateway as a Service.
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Remove
Removes the Enterprise Gateway as a Windows Service.
Important Note:
You can encrypt all sensitive Enterprise Gateway configuration data with an encryption
passphrase. For example, you can specify this passphrase in your Enterprise Gateway
configuration file, or on the command line when the Enterprise Gateway is starting up.
For more details on configuring this passphrase, see
Setting the
Encryption Passphrase.
Linux/Solaris
The instructions in this section describe how to stop and start the
Enterprise Gateway as a daemon on Linux and Solaris systems. Open a shell
at the INSTALL_DIR/posix/bin directory, where
INSTALL_DIR refers to the root of your Enterprise Gateway installation.
Start as a Daemon Process:
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prompt# ./enterprisegateway -d
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Kill the Daemon Process:
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prompt# ./enterprisegateway -k
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