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Starting Optimize on a Windows System
To start Optimize, you must start each Analytic Engine, My webMethods Server, and each Web Service Data Collector. Depending on how they were installed, you can choose one of three ways to start these components:
*As a Windows service.
*From a batch file.
*From the Windows Start menu.
Note:
When starting Optimize components under Windows Vista and newer Windows operating systems, the user must have full administrative privileges for the installation directory on the applicable machine (e.g., C:\SoftwareAG). Note that full explicit privileges are required; it is not sufficient for a user to be simply a member of the administrative group.
Before you can start the Optimize components as Windows services, you need to install them as services.