Restarting the EPAP and PDBA

Caution:

Perform this procedure only when directed to by one of the procedures in Alarms. This is not a standalone procedure.

The PDBA items that appear in the screens in this procedure apply only to the EPAP application. These items will not appear for the ELAP application.

  1. Log in to the User Interface screen of the EPAP GUI (see Accessing the EPAP GUI).
  2. Check the banner information above the menu to verify that you are logged into the problem EPAP indicated in the UAM.
    If it is necessary to switch to the problem EPAP, select Select Mate.
  3. From the epapmaint screen, select Process Control > Stop Software.
    The screen shown in Figure A-2 appears:

    Figure A-2 Stop Software Confirmation

    Stop Software Confirmation
  4. On the Stop EPAP Software screen, make sure the following checkboxes are all checked, so that the PDBA software is stopped along with the EPAP software and so that both the PDBA and EPAP software are automatically restarted on reboot (see Figure A-2 for an example):
    1. Check to cause the software to automatically start on reboot
      This checkbox causes the EPAP software to automatically reboot.
    2. Check to stop the PDBA software along with the EPAP software
    3. Check to cause the PDBA software to automatically start on reboot

      Figure A-3 Stop Software

      Stop Software
  5. Click the Stop EPAP Software button to stop the software.
    The screen shown in Figure A-3 appears (the PDBA item appears only if performing this procedure on Side A).

    Figure A-4 Stop Software Completion Screen

    Stop Software Completion Screen
  6. Select Process Control > Start Software.
  7. From the Start EPAP Software screen, make sure the checkboxes are checked as shown in Figure A-5 (this item applies only if performing this procedure on Side A):

    Figure A-5 Start EPAP Software

    Start EPAP Software
  8. Click the Start EPAP Software button to start the software.
    The screen shown in Figure A-6 confirms that the software has started (the PDBA item appears only if performing this procedure on Side A):

    Figure A-6 Start Software Completion Screen

    Start Software Completion Screen