Administering services

Follow these procedures to administer IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server services and IBM WebSphere® Application Server services. For example, check the status of services and stop and restart them when you back up or restore your system, or to do other maintenance tasks.Commands to start and stop services are listed here.

For further information about the WebSphere Application Server tools and processes mentioned in these procedures, see the WebSphere Application Server Information Center:
For further information about various tools to use to manage a WebSphere Application Server, see the following topics in the WebSphere Application Server documentation:
WebSphere Application Server 8.5
Starting the Deployment Manager by using the startManager tool: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/rxml_startmanager.html
Stopping the Deployment Manager by using the stopManager tool: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/rxml_stopmanager.html
Starting a node agent by using the startNode tool: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/rxml_startnode.html
Stopping a node agent by using the stopNode tool: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/rxml_stopnode.html
Starting cluster members: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/ae/trun_wlm_cluster_start.html
Stopping cluster members: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/ae/trun_wlm_cluster_stop.html
Starting stand-alone application servers and cluster members by using the startServer tool: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/ae/rxml_startserver.html