Starting, stopping, and restarting the Dispatcher service on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems

When you edit an adapter or Security Directory Integrator properties file, you must stop and restart the dispatcher service for the changes to take effect.

About this task

The ITIMAd script file starts and stops the service. The adapter installation copies the file to a specific directory, depending on the operating system.
Table 1. UNIX based and Linux directories
Operating system Directory
AIX timsol
HP-UX timsol
Linux and Solaris timsol
On Solaris operating system, the ITIMAd script file creates the itimadpid file in the adapter solution directory. The file contains the process ID of the dispatcher service. Do not modify or delete this file. When you start the dispatcher service, the ITIMAd script file creates the itimadpid file. When you stop the dispatcher service, the ITIMAd script file deletes the itimadpid file. This file is not created on other platforms.

Procedure

  1. From the command line, navigate to the directory that contains the ITIMAd script file.
  2. Run the following commands to start, stop, and restart the dispatcher service:
    Table 2. UNIX based and Linux commands
    AIX HP-UX Linux and Solaris
    ITIMAd startsrc ITIMAd start ITIMAd start
    ITIMAd stopsrc ITIMAd stop ITIMAd stop
    ITIMAd restartsrc ITIMAd restart ITIMAd restart