StorMan is running as a service handled by the system daemon "systemd". The service is configured to start automatically after installation and restarts automatically in case of failures and during a reboot.
With root privilege StorMan can be started and stopped manually by using the systemctl command:
systemctl start storman[.service]
systemctl stop storman[.service]
systemctl status storman[.service]
To check if StorMan is running, also the command storcheck can be used.
Upon startup, StorMan reads its configuration file /var/opt/SMAWstor/StorMan/config/smserver.ini. The server listens on port 4178. For StorMan server access from the network, the firewall has to grant access to port 4178.
Once the server has started and performed some initialization activities, it waits for requests from clients and responds to them.