Starting a stand-alone catalog service

You must start the catalog service manually when you are using a distributed WebSphere® eXtreme Scale environment that is not running in WebSphere Application Server.

Before you begin

Deprecated feature Deprecated: The startOgServer and stopOgServer commands start servers that use the Object Request Broker (ORB) transport mechanism. The ORB is deprecated, but you can continue using these scripts if you were using the ORB in a previous release. The IBM eXtremeIO (XIO) transport mechanism replaces the ORB. Use the startXsServer and stopXsServer scripts to start and stop servers that use the XIO transport.

About this task

Start the catalog service with the startOgServer script. When you call the start command, use the startOgServer.sh script on UNIX platforms or startOgServer.bat on Windows.

The catalog service can run in a single process or can include multiple catalog servers to form a catalog service domain. A catalog service domain is required in a production environment for high availability. For more information, see High availability catalog service. You can also specify additional parameters to the script to bind the Object Request Broker (ORB) to a specific host and port, specify the domain, or enable security.

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