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Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.6 administration documentation
Administering
This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
Starting and stopping servers
This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime 11.6 servers.
Starting and stopping the Community server
Follow the below process to start and stop the Sametime Community server on Windows and Linux.

Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.6 administration documentation
- Accessibility features for Sametime
  Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully. HCL® strives to provide products with usable access for everyone.
- What's new in HCL Sametime
  This section describes what's new in HCL Sametime® 11.6 and Sametime® Meetings 11.6.
- Checklist to deploy Sametime
  This section provides information on reviewing the checklist to deploy the Sametime clients.
- Encryption usage in Sametime
  HCL® Sametime® uses several types of encryption to protect data.
- Planning
  This section describes the system requirements and server configurations needed for HCL Sametime 11.6.
- Installing
  This section provides information on installing and configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.6.
- Configuring
  This section provides information on configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.6.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
  - Managing Sametime clients
    This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.
  - Starting and stopping servers
    This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime 11.6 servers.
    - Starting and stopping the Community server
      Follow the below process to start and stop the Sametime Community server on Windows and Linux.
    - Starting and stopping the Proxy server
    - Starting and stopping Meeting servers
      This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime Meeting servers.
    - Starting and stopping MongoDB
  - Managing policies
    Sametime policies allows administrators to control user access to features.
  - Configuration files
    There are a number of configuration files that a backup copy should be retained after the server configuration is complete.
  - Adding additional Sametime administrators
    Sametime Community server is installed on top of a Domino server. There are some administration and installation tasks that must be performed using the HCL Notes Client or HCL Notes Administrator client.
  - Enabling multi-tenancy
    Multi-tenancy allows multiple organizations to be part of the HCL Sametime® community. With multi-tenancy, Sametime users can chat, add users and groups to contact lists, and have awareness of users in their organization or in other organizations that are configured to be visible to them.
  - MongoDB
    This section provides information relating to administering MongoDB.
  - Disabling persistent chat and MongoDB requirements
    HCL Sametime 11.6 deploys with persistent chat enabled which requires MongoDB. It is possible to remove the MongoDB requirement if persistent chat and chat logging is disabled.
  - Managing Sametime Meetings
    This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.
  - Changing user names
    When you change user or group names in the directory, the change is not reflected in HCL® Sametime Community Server databases. In order to synchronize the directory names with the names in the Community Server databases, you must run the name conversion utility.
- Uninstalling Sametime
  In the event that Sametime must be uninstalled, follow these steps to uninstall the Community, Proxy, and Meetings servers.
- Troubleshooting
  Troubleshooting and Support
- Migrating and Upgrading
  This section provides information on migrating and upgrading from an earlier Sametime release.
- Notices

Starting and stopping the Community server

Follow the below process to start and stop the Sametime Community server on Windows and Linux.

About this task

Windows

Use the associated Domino service in the services panel. It will start and stop all Sametime Community processes.

To get a list of the Sametime related services on windows, you can use these two commands:

sc queryex type=service state=all | find "ST " | find "SERVICE_NAME"

sc queryex type=service state=all | find "Sametime " | find "SERVICE_NAME"

The list will look like this:

SERVICE_NAME: Sametime Server
SERVICE_NAME: Sametime Services Framework

SERVICE_NAME: ST Admin Service
SERVICE_NAME: ST Chat History
SERVICE_NAME: ST Chat Logging
SERVICE_NAME: ST Community
SERVICE_NAME: ST Community Launch
SERVICE_NAME: ST Conference
SERVICE_NAME: ST Configuration
SERVICE_NAME: ST Convomap
SERVICE_NAME: ST Directory
SERVICE_NAME: ST File Transfer
SERVICE_NAME: ST Logger
SERVICE_NAME: ST Mux
SERVICE_NAME: ST Offline Messages
SERVICE_NAME: ST OnlineDir
SERVICE_NAME: ST Places
SERVICE_NAME: ST Policy
SERVICE_NAME: ST Polling
SERVICE_NAME: ST Presence
SERVICE_NAME: ST Presence Compatibility
SERVICE_NAME: ST Presence Subscriptions
SERVICE_NAME: ST Privacy
SERVICE_NAME: ST Resolve
SERVICE_NAME: ST Security
SERVICE_NAME: ST User Storage
SERVICE_NAME: ST UserInfo
SERVICE_NAME: ST Users

Linux

You must enter the following commands in the command line to stop and start the Community Server.

You must run these commands under the notes user.
Change directories to the /local/notesdata directory (or where the Domino server's notes.ini file resides).
To Start community - . /ststart
Note: This command starts in the foreground.
To start Community in background - ./ststart background
Note: This command starts in the foreground.
To Stop Community - ./ststart stop
To Restart Community - ./ststart restart
To get Status - ./ststart status

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