Chapter 3. Startup and Shutdown

Oracle SOA Suite 12c provides an administrator numerous ways to start up and shut down various entities and components, which are perhaps a little confusing to new administrators. However, these multitude of options provide power and flexibility in the long run.

This chapter focuses exclusively on the startup and shutdown of the Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure and how to verify the completion of each component. Many cases exist in which the administrator may want to turn off specific services if they are redundant or not being used in order to increase the performance and stability of the environment. Learning how to start up and shut down individual SOA composite applications and OSB services is detailed in Chapter 4, Managing Services.

The startup and shutdown of the infrastructure holistically or at a component level can be done through Fusion Middleware Control, the command line, or WLST. This chapter will provide you with directions on how to perform each of the following:

• Starting up and shutting down the entire infrastructure using the console
• Starting up and shutting down the entire infrastructure using the command line
• Starting up and shutting down the entire infrastructure using WLST

Once you have familiarized yourself with the various approaches, you can decide to script the startup and shutdown process in a way that is preferable to you. All command-line instructions in this chapter are based on Linux, the recommended operating system for Oracle SOA Suite 12c installations.