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Starting the Communication component on UNIX

On UNIX, the SPI Server is an executable that runs as a daemon process.
To start the SPI Server, navigate to the directory in which you installed the SPI Server and enter the following command:
spiserver
Check the SPI Server log file to make sure that the server started successfully. For more information about the location of the log file, see Configuring the Communication component
To stop the SPI Server, enter the following command:
spiserver stop <host> <portnumber> <administrator name> <password>
You can build an initialization script to start the SPI Server automatically when the system starts. For more information, see your system documentation.
Note: If the SPI Server does not shut down normally, it might not restart. If this issue occurs, remove the SPI Server lock file in the SPI Server working directory, and then restart the SPI Server.