server task offline

The server task offline command places the server located at this junction in an offline operational state.

Requires authentication (administrator ID and password) to use.

server task instance-webseald-host offline [-i server_uuid] junction_point

The server task offline command places the server located at this junction in an offline operational state. No additional requests are sent to the specified server. If a server is not specified, all servers that are at this junction are placed in an offline operational state.

Options

instance-webseald-host

Full server name of the installed WebSEAL instance. Specify in the exact format as displayed in the output of the server list command.

The instance_name specifies the configured name of the WebSEAL instance. The webseald designation indicates the WebSEAL service performs the command task. The host_name is the name of the physical machine where the WebSEAL server is installed.

For example, if the configured name of a single WebSEAL instance is default, and host machine name where the WebSEAL server is installed is abc.ibm.com, the full WebSEAL server name is default-webseald-abc.ibm.com.

If an additional WebSEAL instance is configured and named web2, the full WebSEAL server name is web2-webseald-abc.ibm.com.

-i server_uuid

UUID of the server to place in an offline operational state. If a server is not specified, all servers that are located at this junction are placed in an offline operational state. Use the server task show command to determine the ID of a back-end server.

junction_point

Name of the directory in the WebSEAL protected object space where the document space of the back-end server is mounted.

Authorization

Users and groups that require access to this command must be given the c (control) permission in the ACL that governs the /WebSEAL/host_name-instance_name/junction_point object. For example, the sec_master administrative user has permission by default.

Return codes

0

The command completed successfully. For WebSEAL server task commands, the return code will be 0 when the command is sent to the WebSEAL server without errors. Even if the command was successfully sent, the WebSEAL server might not be able to successfully complete the command and can return an error message.

1

The command failed. When a command fails, the pdadmin command provides a description of the error and an error status code in hexadecimal format (for example, 0x14c012f2).

See "Error messages" in the IBM Knowledge Center which provides a list of the ISAM error messages by decimal or hexadecimal codes.

Examples

The following example places the backappl server located at the /pubs junction point in an offline operational state. To determine the UUID of this junctioned server, run the server task show command:

pdadmin> server task default-webseald-cruz show /pubs

Output is similar to:

Junction point: /pubs
...
Server 1:
ID: 6fc3187a-ea1c-11d7-8f4e-09267e38aa77
Server State: running
Operational State: Throttled
Throttled at: 2005-03-01-17:07:24
Hostname: backapp1.diamond.example.com
...
Current requests: 0
...

Place this server in an offline operational state:

pdadmin> server task default-webseald-cruz offline -i 6fc3187a-ea1c-11d7-8f4e-09267e38aa77 /pubs

See also

server task online
server task throttle
server task virtualhost offline
server task virtualhost online
server task virtualhost throttle

Parent topic: Command reference