Starting and stopping the BMC Reporting Foundation servers

You can start and stop the CMS servers on Solaris computers by using the startservers and stopservers scripts. On Windows computers, you can start and stop the CMS servers by using the Central Configuration Manager Tool.

To start the CMS servers on Solaris

1. Navigate to the install_directory/sap_bobj directory.
2. Enter the following commands:
   LC_CTYPE="en_US"
   export LC_CTYPE
   LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 (If UTF-8 is not supported, use en_US)
   export LC_ALL
   $tomcatstartup.sh
   $startservers
   $ccm.sh -start cms (Ignore message 'server of this name already exists').
3. Verify whether all BusinessObjects processes are enabled:
   ps -aef|grep boe|grep -v "grep boe"
    Approximately 15 BusinessObjects processes must be running.

To stop the CMS servers on Solaris

1. Navigate to the install_directory/sap_bobj directory.
2. Enter the following commands:
   LC_CTYPE="en_US"
   export LC_CTYPE
   LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 (If UTF-8 is not supported, use en_US)
   export LC_ALL
   $stopservers
   $tomcatshutdown.sh
   $ccm.sh -stop cms
3. Verify whether all BusinessObjects processes are stopped.
   ps -aef|grep boe|grep -v "grep boe"
    There should be no BusinessObjects processes running.

To start the CMS servers on Windows

1. Navigate to Control Panel > Administrative Tools >Services.
2. Start the Apache Tomcat service.
3. Navigate to Start > Programs >SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4 >SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform > Central Configuration Manager.
4. Select all the listed services.
5. Click Start on the menu to start all the services.

To stop the CMS servers on Windows

1. Navigate to Start >Programs > SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4 > SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform > Central Configuration Manager.
2. Select all the listed services.
3. Click Stop on the menu to stop all the services.
4. Navigate to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
5. Stop the Apache Tomcat service.