Restarting system service instances

Before you begin

You must be a cluster administrator or your user account must be assigned the EGO service control permission set for this consumer.

About this task

You may have to restart a system service instance to have a configuration change take effect (for example, you may choose to change your log level for a service). You can also restart a service instance that was held. You can restart any service instance through the cluster management console.

Restarting a service instance restarts all service instances of that system service on the same host (if there are more than one). The system chooses the best host to start the service on again; the system may or may not start the service on the same host as before.

You cannot restart the WEBGUI service instance.

You can restart service instances in the Start and Run. You can also restart service instances in the Hold state. You can manually restart a service instance from the command line by running the egosh service instance restart -s service_name sequence_number command.

Procedure

  1. From the cluster management console Dashboard, select Common Tasks > EGO Services.

    The Services page displays.

  2. Click the service name that runs the service instance you want to restart.

    The Service Properties for that service display.

  3. Click Service Instances.

    A list of service instances displays.

  4. (Optional) Click Filter Settings to narrow your search.
    • To filter service instances by ID, enter the ID of the service instance in the Instance ID text box and click Find.
    • To filter service instances by state, click the state START, RUN, or HOLD (to select all three, press Ctrl and click), optionally enter the name of the host, and click Filter.
    One or more service instances that match your criteria displays.
  5. Restart one or more service instances.
    • To restart one service instance, locate the service instance, click Actions, and select Restart.
    • To restart more than one service instance, from Global Actions, click Select all instances on this page or (if you used filters) Select all instances in found set, and select Restart all selected instances.