How do you mark a server process for shutdown in NW04

[michael_hill]

In the documentation for J2EE Engine load balancing, it talks about marking a server process for shutdown. I have two instances installed on my machine, one of which has two server processes and the other which has one. How do I mark a server process for shutdown?

My environment: NetWeaver 04, SP8, Microsoft SQL Server, on Windows XP.

Thanks,

Michael

Here is the text from the manual:

When there is a server process marked for shutdown, it is excluded from the Load Balancing System. The mark for shutdown option is used if you want to stop a particular server process without terminating the work of the clients that are currently connected to it. The SAP J2EE Engine waits for the current requests to be processed and then stops the corresponding element. After the element is stopped the Load Balancing System stops sending requests to it.

[Former Member]

Hi Michael,

you can mark a server process for shutdown (that is, stop it after some timeout) using the Telnet Administrator and the SHUTDOWN shell command. You use the -mark option to specify the time to wait before the server process is stopped. For more info on the command syntax, refer to http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/03/5d0b8d2cac2c4883c706defc12ed33/frameset.htm

Also, the startup and control framework (which controls the cluster elements within an instance) does soft shutdown of a cluster element as described here: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/a2/852aca5cd96f4796e51ba0f7a28926/frameset.htm.

Best regards,

Ivo.