Overview of administering the system

To begin administering the system, you must start all necessary components of the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server.

The recommended order for starting up the system is: IBM WebSphere MQ Listener, InterChange Server, then IBM WebSphere System Manager. Connectors are automatically started when you start InterChange Server.

There is some flexibility for starting components. MQ Listener can be started later, however, the connectors that depend on it are started in a paused state. System Manager can be open at any time, but you must connect to the server instance again after starting the WebSphere InterChange Server. However, if you are using IBM Java Object Request Broker (ORB) on a different machine than WebSphere InterChange Server, you must start the ORB before starting WebSphere InterChange Server.

When shutting down an instance of InterChange Server, you have two choices. You can shut down the system gracefully or immediately. A graceful shutdown allows the system to complete work that is in progress before shutting down, whereas an immediate shutdown stops the system without allowing pending events to process.

Before you can start the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server system, make sure all of the necessary third-party software is running. This includes the database on which the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server repository resides. This section assumes that you have already started the system and loaded the repository. If you are starting the system for the first time, refer to the System Installation Guide for Unix or for Windows .

The following tasks describe the recommended order to start the system:

  1. Check that all necessary third-party software is running.
  2. If you are using IBM Java Object Request Broker (ORB) on a different system than where WebSphere InterChange Server is located, start the ORB. For more information about using ORB, see Administering the Object Request Broker.
  3. If you are using IBM WebSphere MQ, start the MQ Listener.
  4. Start InterChange Server. See "Steps for starting InterChange Server".
  5. Start any connectors not automatically started. See "Starting, stopping, and pausing connectors".
  6. Start collaborations. See "Viewing collaboration object states".
  7. Start System Manager. See "Using System Manager".

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