Starting the Endeca IAS Service from a command prompt

In UNIX environments, you start the Endeca IAS Service from a command prompt. In Windows environments, you can start the service from a command prompt, but it is optional.

On either UNIX or Windows, you can leave the Endeca IAS Service running as a background process. The only time you must restart the service is if you modify any of the configuration files in <install path>\IAS\<version>\conf. For example, you might change the IAS Service logging configuration and therefore have to restart the service.

Note: The IAS Service can be slow to start up if it contains large Record Store instances and has not been cleanly shut down.

To start the Endeca IAS Service from a command prompt:

  1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the <install path>\IAS\<version>\bin directory.
  2. Run the ias-service.bat script (for Windows) or ias-service.sh script (for UNIX).

    For example, in a default installation on a Windows machine, the command is as follows: 

    C:\Oracle\Endeca\IAS\3.1.0\bin>ias-service

    This command starts the Endeca IAS Service on the default port 8401 with a workspace directory of <install path>\IAS\workspace.

    Note that you do not see any startup messages. All messages are sent to the IAS Service log (by default, workspace\logs\ias-service.log). However, if there is an error in setting up logging, all messages are sent to the console.

  3. Verify that the server is running by opening a Web browser and entering http://<host name>:8401/ias/?wsdl. For example, in a default installation: 
    http://localhost:8401/ias/?wsdl

    You see the IasCrawlerService WSDL in the Web browser window, which indicates that the Endeca IAS Service is running.