Start-msg utility

The start-msg utility starts enabled Messaging Server components.

Syntax
start-msg &#x5b;-m&#x5d; &#x5b;-l&#x5d; &#x5b;-L&#x5d; &#x5b;components ...&#x5d;

Restrictions
Must have superuser privileges or use the Solaris RBAC feature in order to use this utility. Only one start-msg or stop-msg process may run at a time on the system.

The  parameter starts the server in high-availability mode and is normally only used by a cluster agent control script.

One or more   parameters may be supplied to start a specific enabled component. Valid values for   include:



 - watches for process failure and triggers restart of appropriate components. 

 - event notification server (enpd); required for IMAP IDLE. 

 - legacy RAM-based storage facility similar to memcache or Redis; see MeterMaid documentation. 

 - stored message store maintenance process. 

 - impurge message store daemon. 

 - IMAP server. 

 - POP3 server. 

 - Indexed search converter service (required by Elasticsearch feature). </li>

 - Certificate validation daemon used by Convergence S/MIME feature. </li>

 - Convergence mshttpd proxy. </li>

 - Scheduler daemon for period tasks. </li>

 - feature in development. </li>

 - Multi-process service controller used by the MTA and LMTP server (starts other processes). </li>

 - MTA&#x27;s outbound delivery controller (starts other processes). </li>

 - SNMP monitoring sub-agent. </li>

 - SMS gateway service. </li>

 - Messaging Multiplexor (POP and IMAP proxy). </li>

 - Time-based log-file rollover service. </li>

 - an alias for the dispatcher and job_controller. </li>

</ul>

Description
This starts one or more enabled Messaging Server components. Which components are started can be controlled by using the appropriate enable option, e.g.,  to enable the store, or the appropriate enablesslport option the appropriate component&#x27;s scope., e.g.,   for IMAP&#x27;s SSL port. If a specified component is already running, the component will continue running unchanged. If a specified component is not enabled, an error will be displayed for that component.

List active servers and exit.

List enabled servers and exit.

Start the message stored process as the preferred replication master when using classic Message Store with automatic failover and DB replication enabled. This should be used once when setting up a replication affinity group.

Examples
The following command starts all enabled Messaging Server components: The following command starts the imap server process(es):
 * 1) start-msg
 * 1) start-msg imap

See also:
 * Messaging Server command line utilities
 * refresh utility
 * restart utility
 * stop-msg utility