5.3 Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Oracle Traffic Director Instances

You can start, stop, and restart Oracle Traffic Director instances by using either the administration console or the CLI.

Note:

The CLI examples in this section are shown in shell mode (tadm>). For information about invoking the CLI shell, see Section 2.3.1, "Accessing the Command-Line Interface."

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Oracle Traffic Director Instances Using the Administration Console

To start, stop, or restart Oracle Traffic Director instances by using the administration console, do the following:

1. Log in to the administration console, as described in Section 2.3.2, "Accessing the Administration Console."

2. Click the Configurations button that is situated at the upper left corner of the page.

   A list of the available configurations is displayed.

3. Select the configuration for which you want to start, stop, or restart instances.

4. In the navigation pane, select Instances.

5. Click the Start/Restart or Stop button, as required, for the instance that you want to start, restart, or stop.

   Note:

   To start or restart all instances of the selected configuration, click Start/Restart Instances in the Common Tasks pane. To stop all instances of the configuration, click Stop Instances.

6. If a PKCS#11 token that provides the interface to the certificates database is protected with a pin (see Section 11.5, "Managing PKCS#11 Tokens"), when you click Start/Restart or Start/Restart Instances, a prompt to enter the token pin is displayed. To proceed with starting the instances, you should enter the pins for the tokens that are protected with pins.

   A message is displayed in the Console Messages pane confirming that the instances were started, stopped, or restarted.

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Oracle Traffic Director Instances Using the CLI

To start, stop, or restart one or more Oracle Traffic Director instances of a configuration, run the start-instance, stop-instance, or restart-instance command.

For example, the following three commands start, restart, and stop the instances of the configuration soa on the nodes apps1.example.com and apps2.example.com.

tadm> start-instance --config=soa apps1.example.com apps2.example.com

tadm> restart-instance --config=soa apps1.example.com apps2.example.com

tadm> stop-instance --config=soa apps1.example.com apps2.example.com

If a PKCS#11 token that provides the interface to the certificates database is protected with a pin (see Section 11.5, "Managing PKCS#11 Tokens"), when you run start-instance, a prompt to enter the token pin is displayed, as shown in the following example:

Enter password for token "internal">

To proceed with starting the instances, you should enter the pins.

For more information about the CLI commands mentioned in this section, see the Oracle Traffic Director Command-Line Reference or run the commands with the --help option.

Note:

Alternatively, you can use the following commands from within the instance directory to start, restart, and stop the instances:

> $INSTANCE_HOME/net-config_name/bin/startserv

> $INSTANCE_HOME/net-config_name/bin/restart

> $INSTANCE_HOME/net-config_name/bin/stopserv