Before you can start the solidDB High Availability Controller (HAC), you must have a solidhac.ini configuration file in the HAC working directory, see HotStandby with HAC quick start procedure for a short description of configuring HAC.

For more information about configuring HAC, see Configuring HA Controller and HA Manager.

For a list of parameters and detailed parameter descriptions, see High Availability Controller (HAC) configuration parameters and The solidhac.ini configuration file.

The syntax for starting HAC is:

The ? argument, or any other argument except -c prints the usage message.

When HAC starts, it starts to listen to the port specified in the HAController.Listen parameter in the solidhac.ini configuration file. The port is used, for example, for transporting commands between HAC and the HAManager, and for running HAC-specific administration commands.

To stop the HAC, you must first connect to the HAC by specifying the port that is defined with the HAController.Listen parameter in the solidhac.ini configuration file. For example, you can use solsql or the ODBC interface to connect to HAC.

You can stop (terminate) HAC by running the following command:

If solidhac.exe is located in c:\solid\hac, which is also the current directory, and you use c:\solid\run\server1 as the working directory for the HAC, you start the HAC by running the following command:

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