ingstart Command—Start an Ingres Instance

Permission required: Installation owner, privileged user.

The ingstart command starts an Ingres installation. It also checks that you have sufficient operating system resources to run Ingres and have initialized the log file.

The ingstart utility starts all the elements of your installation in the correct sequence. It starts the Name Server, recovery and archiver processes, and DBMS servers. If you are authorized to run them, it also starts the Communications Server, Visual DBA Remote Command Server, ICE Server, and Star Server.

Note: If a server or process is specified, only that component is started.

The ingstart command has the following format:

ingstart [-iigcn | -dmfrcp | -dmfacp | -client | -rmcmd | -icesvr |
[-iidbms|-iigcc|-iigcb|-iigcd|-iijdbc|-iistar|-oracle|-informix|
-mssql|-sybase|-db2udb|-rdb|-rms [= config_name]]] [-cluster]
[-node nodename] [-help]

• -iigcn

  Starts the Name Server.

• -dmfrcp

  Starts the recovery process.

• -dmfacp

  Starts the archiver process.

• -client

  Starts a client service by starting only a Name Server and Communications Server. Valid on Windows only.

• -rmcmd

  Starts the Remote Command Server required by Visual DBA.

• -icesvr

  Starts the ICE Server.

• -iidbms

  Starts the DBMS Server. You can optionally specific a config_name as the name of the server.

• -iigcc

  Starts the Communications Server. You can optionally specify a config_name as the name of the server.

• -iigcb

  Starts the Bridge Server. You can optionally specify a config_name as the name of the server.

• -iigcd

  Starts the Data Access Server. You can optionally specify a config_name as the name of the server.

• -iistar

  Starts the Star Server. You can optionally specify a config_name as the name of the server.

• -informix

  Starts Enterprise Access for Informix. Valid on UNIX and Windows only.

• -mssql

  Starts Enterprise Access for MS SQL Server. Valid on Windows only.

• -oracle

  Starts Enterprise Access for Oracle.

• -rdb

  Starts Enterprise Access for RDB. Valid on VMS only.

• -rms

  Starts Ingres RMS Access. Valid on VMS only.

• -sybase

  Starts Enterprise Access for Sybase. Valid on UNIX and Windows only.

• -db2udb

  Starts Enterprise Access for IBM DB2 UDB. Valid on UNIX and Windows only.

• config_name

  Specifies the name of the server being started. To see a list of server names, click the Configure tab in Configuration Manager.

• -cluster

  Starts Ingres on all nodes in the cluster. Valid in a cluster installation only.

• -node nodename

  Starts Ingres on the specific node. Valid in a cluster installation only.

• -help

  Displays command syntax online.

ingstart Examples

This command starts an additional default DBMS Server:

ingstart -iidbms

This command starts the "speedy" Communications Server:

ingstart -iigcc=speedy

On UNIX, this command starts the installation interactively using the configuration option, where $II_SYSTEM is set to /install/r6:

setenv II_SYSTEM /install/r6
ingstart

On UNIX, this command starts the installation automatically by including ingstart in the /etc/rc or other boot script, where userid is the user ID defined during installation:

su userid -c /install/r6/ingres/utility/ingstart \
> /dev/console