3.5 Stopping and Restarting an Administration Node

You can stop and restart administration nodes by using either the administration console, CLI commands, or shell commands.

Note:

For information about stopping and restarting the administration server, see Section 2.4, "Stopping and Restarting the Administration Server."

Stopping and Restarting an Administration Node Using the Administration Console

To stop or restart an administration node 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 Nodes button near the upper left corner of the page.

   The administration server and all of the administration nodes that are registered with it are displayed.

3. From the list of nodes, select the node that you want to stop or restart.

4. In the Common Tasks pane, select Restart or Stop, as required.

Stopping and Restarting an Administration Node Using the CLI

• To stop an administration node, run the following command:

  tadm> stop-admin node_host
  

  The following message is displayed:

  OTD-70201 Command 'stop-admin' ran successfully.
  

• To restart an administration node, run the following command:

  tadm> restart-admin node_host
  

  The following message is displayed:

  OTD-70201 Command 'restart-admin' ran successfully.
  

For more information about the stop-admin and restart-admin commands, see the Oracle Traffic Director Command-Line Reference or run the commands with the --help option.

Stopping and Restarting an Administration Node Using Shell Commands

• To stop an administration node from the shell, run the following command:

  $INSTANCE_HOME/admin-server/bin/stopserv
  

  The following message is displayed:

  server has been shutdown
  

• To restart an administration node from the shell, run the following command:

  $INSTANCE_HOME/admin-server/bin/restart