5.5.4 Starting and stopping Dispatcher components
Each component has a start and stop command available. To stop all components in the Dispatcher server
dscontrol executor stop
dsserver stop
If you run only dsserver stop, Executor continues running, so the load balancing mechanism is still active. When you intend to fully stop Dispatcher first stop Executor and then stop dsserver.
In Windows systems, stopping the IBM Dispatcher service only stops the administration server. We need to stop Executor manually before stopping the service.
To start Dispatcher, simply run dsserver (or start the Windows service called IBM Dispatcher) and it automatically loads the configuration file default.cfg, which contains the start commands for all other necessary components.