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All EMS Server configurations disappear after the EMS server is started manually
This could be because the command to start the EMS server has been changed in the 5.1.4 version. In EMS version 4.x the command to start EMS was "./tibemsd". In EMS v5.1.4 the command is "./tibemsd64 -config ../tibco/cfgmgmt/ems/data/tibemsd.conf". The command uses relative path and it should be executed from "<TIBCO_HOME>\ems\<version>\bin".
To resolve this problem stop the process started by the command:
"./tibemsd"
and start the ems server with correct command:
"./tibemsd64 -config ../tibco/cfgmgmt/ems/data/tibemsd.conf"