Deactivating and stopping installed process applications

Use the Process Admin Console to deactivate and, if necessary, stop snapshots that are installed on a process server. All installed snapshots except the default version can be deactivated. However, you can stop only those snapshots that contain Advanced Integration Services (such as SCA modules or BPEL processes).

About this task

Deactivating a snapshot allows all existing business process definition process instances to complete, but no new process instances can be started.

Stopping a process application snapshot stops the associated business level application (BLA). Use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to verify that the BLA is in the stopped state.

Using the Deactivate Application action from the Process Admin Console does not stop a BPEL process. Unless you are running the server in development mode or you are running the process application on a Process Center server, you might need to perform additional actions for process applications that include BPEL processes:

If your process application uses a BPEL process as the main entry component, you must stop the corresponding BPEL template in the WebSphere administrative console. See "Administering BPEL process and task templates."
Additionally, if this BPEL process invokes a BPD, you must allow any existing instances to complete after you stop the template but before you deactivate the snapshot. See "Administering BPEL process and task templates."
In all cases, you must clean up the associated process instance data from the Business Process Choreographer database, as described in "Cleanup procedures for Business Process Choreographer."

In order to deactivate a default version of the snapshot, first designate another snapshot as the default version. (If you have only one version installed on the server, you need to create and install another snapshot and then designate that as the default version.) After the snapshot is no longer the default version, you can deactivate it.

Procedure

Open the Process Admin Console and select the installed snapshot.
Deactivate the snapshot by clicking Deactivate Application in the Process Admin Console.
If the snapshot contains Advanced Integration Services, stop it by clicking Stop Application.