Scripts

The $GS_HOME/bin folder includes the following scripts that can be used to manage and monitor service grid components and applications in runtime.

General Scripts

Script Description Open Source XAP Enterprise GigaSpaces Enterprise
setenv Configure the settings for the Common Environment Variables. ✔ ✔ ✔
setenv-overrides Use this script to override default settings in the setenv script. ✔ ✔ ✔
gs Starts the Command Line Interface (CLI)   ✔ ✔
gs-agent Starts the Grid Service Agent. ✔ ✔
gs-ui Starts the GigaSpaces Management Center. ✔ ✔
gs-webui Starts the Web Management Console. ✔ ✔

The gs-agent script is deprecated as of version 14.0, as noted in the Release Notes. Use the gs host run-agent command in the new CLI instead.

The GigaSpaces Management Center has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Advanced Scripts

In addition to the scripts listed above, the bin folder (in the GigaSpaces commercial editions) contains additional scripts in the advanced_scripts.zip folder, which are only provided to maintain backwards compatibility with earlier versions of GigaSpaces products.

Script Description Open Source Enterprise
gsc Starts a Grid Service Container.
Instead of this script, start a GSCClosed Grid Service Container. This provides an isolated runtime for one (or more) processing unit (PU) instance and exposes its state to the GSM. as described in Managing Containers.		   ✔
gsm Starts a Grid Service Manager.
Instead of this script, start a GigaSpaces Manager as described in Managing the Grid Service Agent.		   ✔
gsm_nolus Starts a Grid Service Manager without a Lookup Service.   ✔
gs-memcached Starts a standalone, unmanaged instance of a Memcached API listener.   ✔
lookupbrowser Used for special debug scenarios to inspect the Lookup Service.   ✔
platform-info Prints GigaSpaces version info.
Instead of this script, use the gs versioncommand in the CLI.		 ✔
pu-instance Runs a standalone Processing UnitClosed This is the unit of packaging and deployment in the GigaSpaces Data Grid, and is essentially the main GigaSpaces service. The Processing Unit (PU) itself is typically deployed onto the Service Grid. When a Processing Unit is deployed, a Processing Unit instance is the actual runtime entity..
Instead of this script, use the gs puClosed This is the unit of packaging and deployment in the GigaSpaces Data Grid, and is essentially the main GigaSpaces service. The Processing Unit (PU) itself is typically deployed onto the Service Grid. When a Processing Unit is deployed, a Processing Unit instance is the actual runtime entity. run command in the CLI.		   ✔
startJiniLUS Starts a Lookup Service.   ✔
startJiniTX_Mahalo Starts an instance of the distributed transaction manager.   ✔