How does sapcontrol know what profile to use?

[richard_howard]

When starting MDM, we first start a Service:

sapcontrol -nr 00 -function StartService SID

This service uses an Instance Profile for startup.  (ie SID_MDS00_hostname).  How does the above sapcontrol command know what the Instance Profile name is?  My service is not starting because it cannot find the profile it needs. 

Thanks.

[richard_howard · Accepted solution]

Found the answer on the help page for SAP Start Service.  The /usr/sap/sapservices file has the path to the profile that is used for starting the sapstartsrv service that mds, mdis and mdss will each use.