Management Scripts is a selection of scripts that can be used to manage one or more Livelink instances, the webserver(s), database(s) and the like. These scripts can be deployed either directly on the server or on the Administrators computer - with minor modifications - to allow control over the composite Livelink universe. This allows for example the ability to stop and restart a Livelink instance with a single click when opentext.ini settings are changed.

The current release (version 1.0) of Management Scripts are implemented only for components running under the Windows Operating System, although similar ones for the Unix Operating System will soon be available. The current selection of scripts include :

Manage Livelink Instance(s) Manage Database Instance(s) Manage WebServer Instance(s) Other
  • Start a Livelink 8 instance.
  • Stop a Livelink 8 instance.
  • Restart a Livelink 8 instance.

  • Start a Livelink 9 instance.
  • Stop a Livelink 9 instance.
  • Restart a Livelink 9 instance.
  • Start an Oracle instance.
  • Stop an Oracle instance.
  • Restart an Oracle instance.

  • Start a SQL Server instance.
  • Stop a SQL Server instance.
  • Restart a SQL Server instance.
  • Start an IIS instance.
  • Stop an IIS instance.
  • Restart an IIS instance.
  • Backup Current Log Files.
        Requires Restart of Livelink
  • Backup Previous Log Files.
        Livelink 9+

The scripts presented here provide a starting point for meeting the management requirements of your Livelink implementation. You may need to further modify or combine the scripts to suit your requirements, for example, you may wish to have the system email you once a back up has completed, or you may wish to have a single startup script that starts the webserver, database and Livelink instance.

To run these scripts, you will need the correct permissions set up on the relevant server(s), you may need to speak to your Server Administrator(s) and / or Database Administrator(s) (DBA) to ensure that you have sufficent permissions to run them.

To modify these scripts so that they will work with your Livelink environment, you will need to replace the default values of the Livelink and Database services with the correct ones for your environment, these can be found in the Services dialog - Start, Settings, Control Panel, Services on Windows NT - or in the Registry (). If you have one or more spaces in your service name then the entire name needs to be in double quotes. If you are using any of the scripts that interact with your servers hard disk, such as the backup ones, then you will also need to amend the paths used in those scripts as appropriate for your environment.

If you are planning to run them from your local computer against a remote component installation then you will need to amend the relevant scripts by prefixing the services names with \\<computer name>, so to start my Livelink Admin service - called Livelink Admin on my server called LLSIM I would use the following :

net start \\LLSIM\Livelink Admin

More information on the NET command is available on the internet. Documentation on the usage of the scripts is included in the readme file included in the download.

If you have some scripts of a similar nature that you use, or even customised versions of those already provided here, then please consider contributing them so that we can improve the offering of Management Scripts here.