Checking whether the server is stopped

You must check whether the server is stopped before you can uninstall the management component of WebSphere® Appliance Management Center manually.

To check whether the server is stopped, complete the following steps:

• On Windows:
  1. Start the Windows Task Manager.
  2. Click the Processes tab.
  3. If the Command Line column is not showing, click View > Select Columns, and select Command Line, click OK.
  4. On the Processes tab, find the process with the Image Name java.exe and the Command Line, for the default location, "C:\Program Files\IBM\WAMC\bin\..\jre\jre\bin\java" -XX:MaxPermSize=256m "-Xmx2g" "-javaagent:C:\Program Files\IBM\WAMC\server\lib\bootstrap-agent.jar" -jar "C:\Program Files\IBM\WAMC\server\lib\ws-launch.jar" "runtime"

     The content of the Command Line column depends on your installation location.

     If you cannot find this Image Name and Command Line on the Processes tab, the server is not running.
• On Linux and UNIX: When the server is running, it writes a file at installation_directory/server/usr/servers/.pid/runtime.pid, where installation_directory is the installation directory, the default installation directory is /opt/ibm/wamc, which contains the process identifier number for the server process.

  To find out whether the server process is running, run one of the following commands:

  • ps process_id

    where process_id is the process identifier. If the command returns a line that starts with the process identifier, the server is running.

  • ps ax | grep installation_directory | grep -v grep

    If the command returns any data, the server is running and its process identifier is the number at the start of the line.
    For example:

    [user@server ~]$ ps ax | grep /opt/ibm/wamc | grep -v grep
    26418 pts/4    Sl     0:19 /opt/ibm/wamc/jre/jre//bin/java 
    -javaagent:/opt/ibm/wamc/server/lib/bootstrap-agent.jar 
    -jar /opt/ibm/wamc/server/lib/ws-launch.jar runtime
    [user@server ~]$ 

    where the process identifier is 26418.