Starting and Exiting MDM Console

This section gets you up and running as quickly as possible in MDM Console. Before you begin, you need to be sure that the SQL DBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, or MaxDB) is up and running and that the MDM software is already installed on your system.

NOTE ►► You can run multiple MDM Console sessions on the same computer.

 To start MDM Console from either the Desktop or the Start menu:

♦ From the Desktop, double-click the MDM Console icon (shown at left), or from the Start menu, choose Programs > SAP MDM > MDM Console.

After a few seconds, the MDM Console main window comes up.

NOTE ►► Once MDM Console has been started, you may still need to perform some or all of the following additional steps before an MDM repository can be accessed by an MDM client or other clients on the network:

(1) Mount a Master Data Server (see “Mounting and Unmounting the Master Data Server” on page 192);

(2) Start the Master Data Server (see “Starting and Stopping ” on page 193);

(3) Create a new MDM Repository (see “Creating an MDM Repository” on page 105) or mount an existing one (see

“Mounting and Unmounting the Master Data Server” on page 44;

and/or

(4) Load the MDM repository (see “Loading and Unloading an MDM Repository” on page 47).

 To exit MDM Console:

1. Click the close button in the upper right corner of the window, or choose File > Exit from the main menu.

NOTE ►► If you exit MDM Console without stopping a running MDM server, the server remains running without the connection to your MDM Console session.

2. MDM prompts you to ask if you would like to save the list of mounted servers to an MDM Console Settings file (described in the following section). Click:

 Yes – save the settings and exit

 No – exit without saving

 Cancel – return to the MDM Console session

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Normally, each time you launch MDM Console, you must manually mount one or more MDM servers one at a time (even if you left them mounted when you exited the previous MDM Console session).

However, when you exit MDM Console, MDM allows you to save the list of currently mounted MDM servers to an MDM Console settings file, which then can be used to remount the servers as a group during a subsequent MDM Console session.

NOTE ►► Just as the MDM Console settings file maintains a list of currently mounted MDM servers that you can use to remount them as a group during subsequent MDM Console sessions, each Master Data Server maintains a list of currently mounted MDM repositories that persists even after the Master Data Server is stopped that it uses to automatically remount them as a group each time the Master Data Server is restarted.

During a subsequent MDM Console session, you can either load the list from the file using the File > Open command from the main menu, or you can load the list automatically by appending the full pathname of a specific .mcs file to the command line that launches MDM Console.

NOTE ►► You can save different sets of mounted MDM servers in different .mcs files, which allows you to define and choose the specific sets of MDM servers that you want to mount as a group.

 To load a specific MDM Console Settings file from within MDM Console:

1. Choose File > Open from the main menu

2. MDM prompts you to save the current mounted settings. Click:

 Yes – save the settings and exit

 No – exit without saving

 Cancel – return to the MDM Console session

3. MDM opens the Windows file Open dialog. Navigate to the desired folder, select the .mcs settings file you want to load, and click Open.

4. MDM replaces the set of mounted MDM servers with the group of servers listed in the file.

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 To automatically load an MDM Console Settings file at MDM Console startup:

1. If a Desktop shortcut to MDM Console does not already exist, create one.

2. In the Shortcut properties of MDM Console Desktop shortcut, add the following text to the Target field:

-f "full-pathname-of-settings-file.mcs"

3. where full-pathname-of-settings-file is the full pathname of the .mcs file you want to use when launching MDM Console.

4. When you start MDM Console from the Desktop shortcut, MDM automatically mounts the MDM server(s) that were saved in the specified .mcs file.

 To automatically save an MDM Console Settings file when exiting MDM Console:

1. If a Desktop shortcut to MDM Console does not already exist, create one.

2. In the Shortcut properties of MDM Console Desktop shortcut, add the following text to the Target field:

- q

3. When you exit MDM Console, MDM automatically saves the list of currently mounted MDM servers to the .mcs file.

TIP ►► You can save the list of currently mounted MDM servers to the current .mcs file at any time by choosing File > Save from the main menu. You can also use the File > Save As command to save the list to an .mcs file that you name yourself.

NOTE ►► If you unmount all MDM servers from MDM Console, you will not be prompted to save changes when exiting MDM Console nor will the .mcs file be saved automatically.

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For convenience, several “command line” arguments can be used when starting MDM Console from the command line or a Windows shortcut.

The arguments are either “-” switches or arguments to a particular switch, as described in Table 1.

Table 1. MDM Console Command Line Arguments

Argument Description

-f "filepath"

Starts MDM Console and mounts the MDM servers specified in a previously saved MDM Console Settings (.mcs) file.

Console –f "C:\Desktop\SAP MDM Servers.mcs"

Can be used with either -x or –q.

-m <Servername>

Mounts (and starts, if needed) the specified Master Data Server.

Console –m MyMDM

By also setting Autostart=True in the mds.ini file, you can not only start the specified Master Data Server, but cause it to automatically load the repositories it has mounted.

-q

Saves the MDM Console Settings (.mcs) file without prompting when you exit MDM Console.

Console –f "C:\Desktop\SAP MDM Servers.mcs" -q Works only with -f but is superceded by -x.

-x

Does not save or prompt you to save the MDM Console Settings (.mcs) file when you exit MDM Console.

Console –f "C:\Desktop\SAP MDM Servers.mcs" -x Works only with -f and supersedes -q.

-h Displays and describes these command line arguments.

NOTE ►► Use CLIX to perform Console operations from the command line (see “Command Line Interface to MDM” on page 352 for more information).

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