Starting and Stopping Services

 

May 16, 2006

 

Copyright 2006, R. James Holton. All rights reserved.

 

 

If you need to restart ESS, you need to restart the application and Web servers.  Normally, the database server does not have to be restarted.  To restart the servers, you would:

 

  1. Stop the Web server
  2. Restart the application server
  3. Start the Web server

 

In Windows, the servers are usually installed as services and can be restarted in the Services dialogue box found with the Control Panel, Administrative Tools icon.

 

The rest of this document assumes that ESS has been installed with the ESA installers.  ESA provides a few simple tools that allow the services that support ESS to be started, stopped and/or restarted easily.

 

Windows.

 

When ESS is installed on a Windows machine, the Start menu contains an Expense Submittal System option.  Under this option is ESS Services, which contains options to start and stop the “Expense Submittal System service”.  These options will start and stop all the services

 

Linux.

 

The ESS services can be controlled with the essctl.sh script, which is located in the ESS installation folder. The release 3.1.6 default for this folder is {home}/ESA-3.1.6l.   To start the ESS services, from the installation folder, type:

 

./essctl start

 

To stop the ESS services, type

 

./essctl start

 

The essctl.sh script contains other options, such as restarting ESS,. or starting and stopping one of the associated services.  For more information on essctl.sh functionality type:

 

./essctl help

 

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