Starting the wire listener

RTC 31288 IH 4/11/16You can start the wire listener for the MongoDB API by using the start command.

Before you begin

Stop all wire listeners that are currently running.
If you plan to customize the Logback logger or another custom Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) logger, you must configure the logger before starting the wire listener.
Configuring the wire listener for the first time
Requirements for JSON compatibility

Procedure

To start the wire listener, run the wire listener command with the -start option.

For example:

java -jar $INFORMIXDIR/bin/jsonListener.jar
-config $INFORMIXDIR/etc/jsonListener.properties -start

Results

The wire listener starts.

Example

In the following example, the wire listener is started with the configuration file specified as jsonListener_mongo.properties, the log file specified as jsonListener_mongo.log, and the log level specified as info:

java -jar $INFORMIXDIR/bin/jsonListener.jar
-config $INFORMIXDIR/etc/jsonListener_mongo.properties
-logfile $INFORMIXDIR/jsonListener_mongo.log
-loglevel info -start

Here is the output from starting the wire listener:

starting mongo listener on port 27017