Starting and stopping a Configuration Manager on Windows

Use the mqsistart and mqsistop commands from the command line.

The following steps show you how to start and stop aConfiguration Manager.

  1. Run the <install_dir>/bin/mqsiprofile command to set up the environment for a single targeted runtime. You must do this before you can run any of the WebSphere Message Broker commands.
  2. To start a Configuration Manager, enter the following command:
    mqsistart CMGR01

    Substitute your own Configuration Manager name for CMGR01. If you do not specify a name, the default of configmgr is used.

    The Configuration Manager and its associated queue manager are started. The command initiates the startup of the Configuration Manager's Windows service. Check the Application Log of the Windows Event Viewer to ensure that the Configuration Manager has initialized successfully.

    You can also request that the Configuration Manager's queue manager is started as a Windows service. Refer to Starting a WebSphere MQ queue manager as a Windows service.

  3. To stop a Configuration Manager, enter the following command on the command line:
    mqsistop CMGR01 

    Substitute your own Configuration Manager name for CMGR01. If you do not specify a name, the default of configmgr is used.

    You can also request that the Configuration Manager's queue manager is stopped by this command. Refer to Stopping a WebSphere MQ queue manager when you stop a component.

Related concepts
Configuration Manager
Related tasks
Creating a Configuration Manager on Windows
Starting a WebSphere MQ queue manager as a Windows service
Stopping a WebSphere MQ queue manager when you stop a component
Windows: Viewing the local error log
Related reference
mqsistart command
mqsistop command