services

This command starts, stops, restarts, or lists the services running on an appliance without affecting the state of the appliance. 

service group action [perm|noperm]
group The values for group can be:
  • ems

    applies to all EMS server and related processes, including monitoring processes.

  • dr

    applies to the disaster recovery synchronization service.

  • all

    includes all configured services on the appliance.

action The values for action can be:
  • enable to start sevice(s).
  • disable to stop service(s).
  • restart to stop and then restart the service(s).
  • list to list the service status.

When action is enable or disable, the optional perm attribute causes the new state to be preserved across appliance reboots. If noperm is included, the new state is not preserved across reboots. For the enable action, the default is perm. For the disable action, the default is noperm.

This command is used to:

  • Shutdown services on a DR backup site after testing and prior to DR activation.

  • Shutdown services on an appliance in preparation for support or maintenance activities, or both.