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title: "Initializing Platform Services"
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published: 2026-07-07T13:13:58Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/initializing-platform-services-1"
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# Initializing Platform Services

To make the installation faster, features that take a long time to initialize are not started automatically. These tools are required for the following:

- CTERA Messaging Service
- CTERA Edge Filer Syslog Service
- Using an S3 Browser
- Setting the Local Quota

**To initialize platform services:**

1. Log in as `root` over SSH to the CTERA Portal.
2. Run the following command:  

`set /settings/platformServicesSetting/enabled true`

Your features will be initialized.

**Notes**

Because these features take a long time to initialize, CTERA recommends that you finish installing all the production servers. You then initialize the features by running the CLI in the primary database server and it will initialize the features on every server.

After initializing the features, if you add more servers, the features are automatically initialized on these servers.