Shutting down services (Windows)

Follow this procedure to shut down the IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server services and IBM WebSphere® Application Server services in a Microsoft Windows installation. Shut down services before you back up or restore your system, or do other maintenance tasks.

Before you begin

If your metadata repository tier is set up in a clustered configuration, make sure that the databases are shut down last, if you shut them down at all.
Note: To perform a cold backup, you must shut down the databases.

About this task

The paths shown in this task assume that WebSphere Application Server and InfoSphere Information Server are installed in the default locations. Your paths and profile names are different if you installed these products in different locations.

Procedure

  1. Stop the following services: IBM InfoSphere DataStage® Telnet Service, InfoSphere DataStage Engine Resource Service, InfoSphere DataStage AppWatcher Service, DSRPC Service, and ASB Agent.
    To stop the services:
    1. On each computer that hosts an engine tier, log in as a user that has local administrator privileges.
    2. Use the Services Administrative Tool or the sc command-line tool to stop the services. Stop the services in the order in which they appear in the table.
      Table 1. Services to stop, in the order in which they must be stopped
      Service full name Service short name Process name
      DataStage Telnet Service dstelnet tl_dsservice.exe
      DataStage Engine Resource Service DSEngine dsservice.exe
      DataStage AppWatcher Service
      Note: This service is optional. It may not be running if you have not configured and started it.
      DSAppWatcher DSAppWatcher.exe
      DSRPC Service dsrpc dsrpcd.exe
      ASB Agent ASBAgent ASBAgent.exe
  2. Stop WebSphere Application Server.