I am having an issue with AUTOSTART=1 not working on 2 of my systems. The system does not start until I open the MMC, interestingly I don't have to manually start the instance, just opening the MMC kicks off the AUTOSTART process. I opened a ticket with SAP and I was told that AUTOSTART=1 should be not used any more because
Apart from the fact that using Autostart parameter can change the control in the start of the instances, the recommendations of changes
in the service definition are not necessary and can be dangerous because customer could use versions in other directories that could
change the security settings and even provoke the instance doesn´t start. This is dangerous and can create more problems in the systems.
Juding from the number of topics on SDN, I see that many people are still using AUTOSTART=1 but what does one use to start an instance after a reboot if we can't use AUTOSTART=1.