When Caching Proxy is installed as a Windows application, the installation procedure creates a Caching Proxy entry as a submenu of the Start menu. To start Caching Proxy as an application, click Start -> Programs -> IBM WebSphere -> Edge Components -> Caching Proxy.
This startup procedure runs the proxy server with the current configuration settings. If you want to specify other settings at startup time, use the command startup procedure (see the next section).
To start the server from any Windows or DOS command prompt, use the ibmproxy command. If you have not shut down and restarted Windows since you installed the server, enter the full path name for this command, as follows, (by default):
c:\Program Files\IBM\edge\cp\bin\ibmproxy.exe
The ibmproxy command starts the server with the current configuration settings. If you have not changed the server configuration since installation, the current configuration is based on the information you entered during installation and on the default options.
The ibmproxy command starts the server as an application, even if you have installed Caching Proxy to run as a service. To force the server to run as an application, you can also specify the command option -noservice. Other command options change the configuration settings at run time.