Starting the Design Center

This section describes how to start the Design Center.

The documentation server is started when the Design Center is started with the following command issued in the directory containing the dc directory:

swdc -c start

The following information is displayed:

        Starting design center ...
                Installing Registry ...
                Updating Registry ...
                Installing Components ...
                Starting Components ...
                Waiting for components to initialize ...
                Waiting for design center services to start ...
        Startup complete

        Design Center is configured to use PRODUCTION executables
        Design Center shared memory size is 400Mb
        Design Center path: /opt/kabira/users/iphillip/data/dc
        
        System Coordinator Host: All Interfaces
        System Coordinator Port: 3556
        
        Web Server Host: All Interfaces
        Web Server Port: 3557
        
        Documentation System Server Port: 10989
Note:

For the next section you should note down the Documentation System Server Port: number. In this example the Server Port number is 10989

To stop the design center use the following:

swdc -c stop

To find the port number of an existing design center the swdc -c status command will return the following information:

>swdc -c status

        Design Center is configured to use PRODUCTION executables
        Design Center shared memory size is 400Mb
        Design Center path: /opt/kabira/users/iphillip/dc
        Design Center host: banks
        
        System Coordinator Host: All Interfaces
        System Coordinator Port: 19493
        
        Web Server Host: All Interfaces
        Web Server Port: 19494
        
        Documentation System Server Port: 1523
        
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