In practice it is very unconfortable to start all components of a distributed simulation on all hosts by hand. To facilitate the initialization of a distributed simulation there are the OAWClusterDaemon and the OAWCompStarter in the OAW-tools section. The OAWClusterDaemon is initialized by a file containing a table with the general names of the components, the names of the executables an the paths to the executable. As an example the file may look like this:
GSrv myGSrv.exe ./ ScriptSrv myScriptSrv.exe ./Now you may simply start the OAWClusterDaemon from the commandline.
OAWClusterDaemon oawrepository.txtIt will display what components it has read from the repository file. On windows plattforms there is also a ClusterDaemon available that has an icon in the system tray. You my put the executable into the auto start folder. By default it will then load the file "oawrepository.txt" for the table of the components. The syntax is the same as above.