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Starting and Stopping a Broker Process from the Command Line

You may start and stop a broker process from the command line. To do this, follow these steps at the DOS shell prompt:

  1. Set the environment variable MSSSRV to the name of the executable (including the path) of the DataServer for SQL Server™. Be sure to set this variable on the host machine.
  2. To start the DataServer broker process, enter the following command at the system prompt on your NT host machine. Select a value for service–name from the list of available services in your \windows-install-dir\system32\drivers\etc file:
  3. brokername -H host-name -S service-name -N TCP 
    

    For example, the following command uses the default broker executable. The service name demosv is a service listed in that file:

    _probrkr -H paris -S demosv -N TCP 
    

  4. To stop the broker process, enter this command:
  5. proshut -Gw -H host-name -S service-name -N TCP 
    

After you start the NT broker process, you are ready to start a Progress client on a PC running Windows or NT or on a UNIX machine. See the "Starting the NT or Windows Client Process" section or the "Starting the UNIX Client Process" section for instructions.


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