Running the Smart Data Bridge

Running on Windows

You can run a Smart Data Bridge in Windows installations as a service or standalone.

Run As A Service:

To control the service, open the Windows Services Management Console.

To control the service, open the Windows Services Management Console.
To Start the service, right click on ActivID Smart Data Bridge and click Start.
To Stop the service, right click on ActivID Smart Data Bridge and click Stop.

Alternatively, this can be performed in a command line running as Administrator.

To start the service enter the following command:
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```
net start SmartDataBridge
```

To stop the service enter the following command:
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```
net stop SmartDataBridge
```

Run as Standalone:

At times you might want to run the Smart Data Bridge standalone to verify that configurations are correct without the need to start and stop windows services. You can do this with a command line.

Go to C:\Program Files\HID Global\Smart Data Bridge\smart-data-bridge\bin
Run the bat file: smart-data-bridge.bat

Running on Linux

To start the Smart Data Bridge in Linux:

In a terminal, go to the bin directory:

cd /opt/hidglobal/smart_data_bridge/smartdb/bin
Run the smartdatabridge shell script:
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```
smart-data-bridge.sh
```

To stop the Smart Data Bridge, kill the existing process running.