Stopping Instant Messaging Components

You can stop all the components together or a single component separately.

Use the imadmin command with the stop option to stop the Instant Messaging Server, multiplexor, Calendar agent, cluster agent, and watchdog depending on which components are enabled.

To Stop All Components

1. At the command line, type the following:

   imadmin stop

   If the watchdog is running, imadmin brings the watchdog down first, and then stops the server and/or the multiplexor.

   This command stops the server, multiplexor, Calendar agent, cluster agent, and watchdog, terminates all end user connections, and disconnects any inbound and outbound servers configured.

To Stop a Single Component

1. At the command line, type the imadmin stop command with an argument that designates the component as follows:

   Server:

   imadmin stop server

   Multiplexor:

   imadmin stop multiplexor

   Calendar agent:

   imadmin stop agent-calendar

   Watchdog:

   imadmin stop watchdog