Gracefull shutdown/restart nGeniusPULSE

Introduction

To minimize the risk of data loss, it is recommended that all services are stopped before restarting or shutting down the machine.

 

Solution

nGeniusPULSE (version 2.5 and above)

• Connect to the host using an SSH client of your choice
• Login as nGPadmin (for default credentials read default credentials)
• Change to the folder /opt/ipm/appliance/

# cd /opt/ngp/appliance/

To restart all relevant services without restarting the applicance

• 24 services need to be stopped and started in the reverse order
• Execute the stop script, followed by the start script

# ./ngp-stop-services.sh
# ./ngp-start-services.sh

To restart the applicance

• 24 services need to be stopped first
• Execute the stop script, followed by "shutdown -r" 

# ./ngp-stop-services.sh
# shutdown -r now

To shutdown the applicance

• 24 services need to be stopped first
• Execute the stop script, followed by "shutdown -h"

# ./ngp-stop-services.sh
# shutdown -h now