To start the monitoring process log to the machine: cs-ccr-lsa2 as lhcop and type: wreboot -n LHC_SDA_SDDS To stop it: wreboot -kill LHC_SDA_SDDS To see status of monitoring you can run monitoring GUI from here: http://abwww.cern.ch/ap/dist/lhc/lhc-sda-sdds/PRO/MonitoringGui.jnlp If you suspect some troubles (errors), log file you can find here (on the same machine): /local/lsa/lhc-sda-sdds -> MonitoringService.log