HP 3PAR Policy Server Administrator's Guide (QR483-96003, December 2012)

HP 3PAR Policy Server 6-2
Starting and Stopping HP 3PAR Policy Server
Why would you want to stop and start Policy Server? Although it may not be necessary, you may find that
after running Policy Server for a few months, you need to change the external directory server or your IT
department moved the directory server to a new machine. Such changes require changes to the configuration
files for Policy Server and Tomcat. For those changes to take effect, you need to restart Policy Server.
Important! Due to limitations of Tomcat, the directory server must be running during startup and
shutdown of Policy Server. Follow the sequence given below for starting up and shutting down the
components to ensure that the directory server is running.
If you need to change only Policy Server and Tomcat configuration files, you do not need to stop and start
the HSQL database. You can simply stop Policy Server, make the changes to the configuration files, and
start Policy Server back up. For information about the configuration files, refer to Chapter 8, "Configuration
Files."
If however, you need to stop and start all components, the order in which you start and stop them is
important. Policy Server should always be started last and stopped first.
• Always START the components in the following order:
a. Directory Server
b. HSQL Database
c. Policy Server
• Always STOP the components in the following order:
d. Policy Server
e. HSQL Database
f. Directory Server
If you installed Policy Server components as services, you can start and stop the services as you would any
other service on the machine. On Windows 7, for example, go to Start menu > Control Panel >
Administrative Tools > Services, and locate the services (HP 3PAR Policy Server, HP 3PAR Policy Server
Database, OpenDS, if all three are running on the same machine). Then use the Start service or Stop service
link to perform the desired operation.
Important! Due to limitations of Tomcat, the directory server must be running during startup and
shutdown of Policy Server. If you follow the rule that you always start the directory server first and stop
the directory server last, you'll be all set.