2.1 Starting the Messaging Agent

When you finish creating your Messenger system, the Installation program starts the Messenger agents for you. You can manually start, stop, restart, or check the status of the service it in a terminal window so status messages are displayed. In addition, you can monitor the Messaging Agent from your browser, as described in Using the Messaging Agent Web Console.

To start the Messaging Agent:

  • At the Linux server, become root by entering su and the root password.

  • Enter the following command:

    systemctl start gwm-nmma.service

    You can also use the stop, restart, and status options for the Messaging Agent using systemctl.

    Messaging Agent log files are created in the /var/opt/novell/log/messenger directory. The Messaging Agent can be monitored using the agent Web Consoles from your browser, as described in Using the Messaging Agent Web Console.