To start the platform daemon on a Linux Supervisor, type the following at the command line.

<user>@<host>:/usr/bin# niagaradctl start
Starting Niagara Daemon:                            [  OK  ]

To verify that the daemon has started, type the following at the command line.

<user>@<host>:/usr/bin# niagaradctl status
niagarad (pid 4815162342) is running...

The platform daemon is now running on your platform and can accept platform connections.