Starting services after installation

This topic describes how to start services after installing MainView Middleware Administrator on a Windows or Linux platform before accessing MVMA. 

You must start MongoDB before starting MVMA services. 

Important

Do not use the root user to start or run the product.

Related topic

Performing-the-installation

To start MongoDB

Make sure that the directories MongoDB should write its log file and the MVMA database is created and MongoDB server starts with the intended configuration.

For more information, see Prepare MongoDB

Before starting MVMA services

Important

Proper implementation of SSL certificates is required for being able to access MVMA services from any other host in the network after installation. MVMA installs its services with Server Name Indication (SNI) enabled using a self-signed certificate assigned to ‘localhost’. This restricts access to ‘localhost’, that is, MVMA can only be accessed using a browser on the MVMA installation system and using ‘localhost’ in the URLs for accessing MVMA through the browser. To make MVMA in your network available from any browser by using the original host name in the URLs, you must add a certificate assigned to the name of the host where MVMA was installed. See the following section on Implementing-SSL-certificates for the implementation of such a certificate.

To start the MVMA service on Windows

  1. Open Windows Service by selecting: Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Component Services.
  2.  In the Console Root window, select Services.
  3. Locate the MainView Middleware Administrator service.
  4. Start the service.

To start the MVMA service on Linux

Run the following commands:

cd <installdir>
./bin/admin --start

 

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