Shutting Down the Primo Servers

This information is not applicable to Primo VE environments. For more details on Primo VE configuration, see Primo VE.

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The order in which the servers are shut down is important and should be applied to single server topologies as well.
To shut down the Primo servers:

  1. Enter the following command to stop the Primo Apache server:

    stop_apache
    If you are receiving Primo requests on HTTP port 80, log in as the root user and enter the following commands to stop the Apache server:
    apcb
    ./apachectl stop

    If the Apache server is not running, you will see and can ignore the following error message:

    ./apachectl stop: httpd (no pid file) not running

  2. Shut down the Back Office (BO) servers:

    1. Enter the following command to stop the BO:

      be_stop

    2. Repeat these steps for each BO in your Primo topology.

  3. Shut down the Front End (FE) servers, starting with the primary FE:

    1. Enter the following command to stop the FE:

      fe_stop

    2. Repeat these steps for each FE in your Primo topology.

  4. Shut down the Search Engine (SE) servers:

    1. Enter the following command to stop the SE:

      se_stop

    2. Repeat these steps for each SE in your Primo topology.