Starting and Stopping up.time

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• Windows Installations
• Solaris and Linux Installations

Use the command references provided below to stop, start and restart up.time services. Note that in all sections, the individual up.time services are listed in the actual order that they should be started or stopped.

Windows Installations

The services that belong to up.time on Windows monitoring stations are: up.time Data Store, up.time Data Collector and up.time Web Server.

To start the up.time services, perform the following steps:

• Login to the monitoring station as a system administrator or user with privileges to control the up.time services.
• Double click Administrative Tools and then double click Services.
• In the Services window, find the following entries and click Start the following services:
  • up.time Data Store
  • up.time Data Collector
  • up.time Web Server

Alternatively, the following commands can be executed from the Windows command prompt to start the services:

> net start "up.time Data Store"
> net start "up.time Data Collector"
> net start "up.time Web Server"

To stop the up.time services, perform the following steps:

• Login to the monitoring station as a system administrator or user with privileges to control the up.time services.
• Double click Administrative Tools and then double click Services.
• In the Services window, find the following entries and click Stop the following services:
  • up.time Web Server
  • up.time Data Collector
  • up.time Data Store

Alternatively, the following commands can be executed from the Windows command prompt to stop the services:

> net stop "up.time Web Server"
> net stop "up.time Data Collector"
> net stop "up.time Data Store"

Solaris and Linux Installations

The services that belong to up.time on Solaris and Linux systems are: uptime_datastore, uptime_core and uptime_httpd.

To start the up.time services, perform the following steps:

• Login to the monitoring station as user root.
• At the command line, type the following commands to start up.time:

  # /etc/rc.d/init.d/uptime_datastore start
  # /etc/rc.d/init.d/uptime_core start
  # /etc/rc.d/init.d/uptime_httpd start

To stop the up.time services, perform the following steps:

• Login to the monitoring station as user root.
• At the command line, type the following commands to stop up.time:

  # /etc/init.d/uptime_httpd stop
  # /etc/init.d/uptime_core stop
  # /etc/init.d/uptime_datastore stop