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Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.5 administration documentation
Administering
This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.5 environments.
Starting and stopping servers
This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime 11.5 servers.
Starting and stopping the Community server
Follow the below process to start and stop the Sametime Community server on Windows and Linux.

Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.5 administration documentation
- Accessibility features for Sametime
  Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully. HCL® strives to provide products with usable access for everyone.
- What's new in HCL Sametime
  This section describes what's new in HCL Sametime® 11.5 and Sametime® Meetings 11.5.
- Checklist to deploy Sametime
  This section provides information on reviewing the checklist to deploy the Sametime clients.
- Planning
  This section describes the system requirements and server configurations needed for HCL Sametime 11.5.
- Installing
  This section provides information on installing and configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.5.
- Configuring
  This section provides information on configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.5.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing HCL Sametime 11.5 environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.5 environments.
  - Managing Sametime clients
    This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.
  - Starting and stopping servers
    This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime 11.5 servers.
    - Starting and stopping the Community server
      Follow the below process to start and stop the Sametime Community server on Windows and Linux.
    - Starting and stopping the Proxy server
    - Starting and stopping Meeting servers
      This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime Meeting servers.
    - Starting and stopping MongoDB
  - Managing policies
    Sametime policies allows administrators to control user access to features.
  - Meeting Server Configuration Files
    Meeting servers are deployed on Docker or Kubernetes. Review the appropriate section for your deployment.
  - Adding additional Sametime administrators
    Sametime Community server is installed on top of a Domino server. There are some administration and installation tasks that must be performed using the HCL Notes Client or HCL Notes Administrator client.
  - Enabling multi-tenancy on the Sametime Community Server
    Multi-tenancy allows multiple organizations to be part of the HCL Sametime® community. With multi-tenancy, Sametime users can chat, add users and groups to contact lists, and have awareness of users in their organization or in other organizations that are configured to be visible to them.
  - MongoDB
    This section provides information relating to administering MongoDB.
  - Disabling persistent chat and MongoDB requirements
    HCL Sametime 11.5 deploys with persistent chat enabled which requires MongoDB. It is possible to remove the MongoDB requirement if persistent chat and chat logging is disabled.
  - Managing Sametime Meetings
    This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.
- Troubleshooting
  Troubleshooting and Support
- Migrating and Upgrading
  This section provides information on migrating and upgrading from an earlier Sametime release.
- Notices

Starting and stopping the Community server

Follow the below process to start and stop the Sametime Community server on Windows and Linux.

About this task

Windows

Use the associated Domino service in the services panel. It will start and stop all Sametime Community processes.

Linux

You must enter the following commands in the command line to stop and start the Community Server.

You must run these commands under the notes user.
Change directories to the /local/notesdata directory (or where the Domino server's notes.ini file resides).
To Start community - . /ststart
Note: This command starts in the foreground.
To start Community in background - ./ststart background
Note: This command starts in the foreground.
To Stop Community - ./ststart stop
To Restart Community - ./ststart restart
To get Status - ./ststart status

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