OSI Troubleshooting Guide, May 1997

78 Chapter 3

Using OSI and OTS Tools

Starting and Stopping OSI

Occasionally, while conﬁguring, verifying, or troubleshooting any of the

OSI products, you'll need to start or stop the OSI products. Use the

commands described here.

osistart Command

Execute the osistart command from the system prompt. Use it to start

services, such as FTAM and X.400 along with the OTS component and

whatever links are being used. Issue the osistart command with no

options.

You can start the services separately by using the -s option. This also

starts the OTS and link components (if necessary). For example:

osistart -s x400

For more details on the osistart command and its options, refer to the

HP-UX online man pages.

NOTE If you make OTS conﬁguration changes via osiadmin to start OTS

automatically, OTS/9000 is automatically started when the system is

booted. Thus, OTS is usually up and will rarely (if ever) be started by

osistart. See “OSIADMIN” on page 72 for the list of tools that

osistart uses to start the OSI stack. If you don’t make the

conﬁguration changes using osiadmin, you must use otsstart

manually to start OTS.