Starting MEF Edge

Log in to the MEF Edge device environment as the root user.
Go to the path where run.sh is stored. The default installation directory is /usr/local/mindx.
```
cd Installation_directory/MEFEdge/software/
```
Run the following command to start MEF Edge:
```
./run.sh start
```
If the following information is displayed, the startup command is successfully executed:
```
Execute [start] command success!
```
If the software is started repeatedly, an alarm is generated. For details, see MEF Edge Is Started or Stopped Repeatedly.

Optional: Run the following command to check whether the process is started successfully.

ps aux|grep MEFEdge|grep -v grep

If the following information is displayed, the MEF Edge process is running properly:

root      588808       1  0 09:15 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/mindx/MEFEdge/software/edge_om/bin/edge-om
MEFEdge   588827       1  0 09:15 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/mindx/MEFEdge/software/edge_main/bin/edge-main
root      588946       1  6 09:15 ?        00:00:13 /usr/local/mindx/MEFEdge/software/edge_core/bin/edgecore --config=/usr/local/mindx/MEFEdge/software/edge_core/config/edgecore.json --logtostderr=false --log_file=/var/alog/MEFEdge_log/edge_core/edge_core_run.log --log_file_max_size=24
root      588948       1  0 09:15 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/mindx/MEFEdge/software/device_plugin/bin/device-plugin --logFile=/var/alog/MEFEdge_log/device_plugin/device_plugin_run.log --useAscendDocker=false

**Table 1** Process description
Process	Description
edge-om	Main process, including the upgrade module. The owner is root.
edge-main	Process for connecting MEF Edge and MEF Center. The owner is MEFEdge.
edgecore	EdgeCore process. The owner is root.
device-plugin	device-plugin process. The owner is root.

Parent topic: Common Operations