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.

To get a list of the Sametime related services on windows, you can use these two commands:
sc queryex type=service state=all | find "ST " | find "SERVICE_NAME"

sc queryex type=service state=all | find "Sametime " | find "SERVICE_NAME"
The list will look like this:
SERVICE_NAME: Sametime Server
SERVICE_NAME: Sametime Services Framework

SERVICE_NAME: ST Admin Service
SERVICE_NAME: ST Chat History
SERVICE_NAME: ST Chat Logging
SERVICE_NAME: ST Community
SERVICE_NAME: ST Community Launch
SERVICE_NAME: ST Conference
SERVICE_NAME: ST Configuration
SERVICE_NAME: ST Convomap
SERVICE_NAME: ST Directory
SERVICE_NAME: ST File Transfer
SERVICE_NAME: ST Logger
SERVICE_NAME: ST Mux
SERVICE_NAME: ST Offline Messages
SERVICE_NAME: ST OnlineDir
SERVICE_NAME: ST Places
SERVICE_NAME: ST Policy
SERVICE_NAME: ST Polling
SERVICE_NAME: ST Presence
SERVICE_NAME: ST Presence Compatibility
SERVICE_NAME: ST Presence Subscriptions
SERVICE_NAME: ST Privacy
SERVICE_NAME: ST Resolve
SERVICE_NAME: ST Security
SERVICE_NAME: ST User Storage
SERVICE_NAME: ST UserInfo
SERVICE_NAME: ST Users

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