Running the Micetro Components (Central, Agents)
Windows
Micetro Central
Micetro Central runs as a service and you can start and stop Micetro Central using the Services application. You can also control Micetro Central using these command line options:
mmcentral –i |
Installs Micetro Central as a service |
mmcentral –u |
Uninstalls Micetro Central |
mmcentral –start |
Starts the Micetro Central service |
mmcentral –stop |
Stops the Micetro Central service |
mmcentral –v |
Displays version information |
mmcentral –h |
Displays available command line options for Micetro Central |
Micetro Agents
The Micetro DNS agent runs as a service and you can start and stop the agent using the Services application. You can also control the Micetro DNS agent using these command line options:
mmremote –i |
Installs the Micetro DNS agent as a service |
mmremote –u |
Uninstalls the Micetro DNS agent |
mmremote –start |
Starts the Micetro DNS agent service |
mmremote –stop |
Stops the Micetro DNS agent service |
mmremote –v |
Displays version information |
mmremote –h |
Displays available command line options for the Micetro DNS agent |
Linux
After installation, all Micetro components are configured as system processes available through systemctl. Only use systemctl to stop, (re)start, and query the status of the components:
systemctl status|start|stop|restart mmcentral
systemctl status|start|stop|restart mmremote
You can set several options when starting Micetro Central (by default /usr/sbin/mmcentral):
-ll <level> |
Micetro Central sends event messages to the system log. You can change the log level for Micetro Central by using the –ll command-line option when starting the daemon. Possible levels are 0 - 5 (the default value is 3) |
-p <port> |
Set port number to listen to (default 1231) |
-u <user> |
Specifies the user name or user id that the program should run as |
-g <group> |
Specifies the group name or group id that the program should run as |
-d <path> |
Sets the path where the data files should be located (the default path is /var/mmsuite/mmcentral) |
-v |
Displays version information |
–h |
Displays available command line options for Micetro Central |
For example:
mmcentrald -p 9876 -ll 5 -d /temp/data