Workplace XT startup and shutdown

Workplace XT consists of the following components: Workplace XT and workflow-related processes. This topic includes detailed instructions for starting up and shutting down both.

The FileNet P8 Platform components are interdependent. See FileNet P8 component relationships to determine the optimum order for starting up and shutting down your system components.

The tables below contain detailed startup and shutdown instructions. Each step is listed in the first column. The columns to the right contain the detailed instructions or commands necessary to accomplish the step. The first table describes startup and shutdown procedures using the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) available in the component or operating system software. The second table lists the equivalent command line instructions. You can execute the command-line instructions directly from a command prompt, or incorporate them into a script.

GUI procedures

GUI startup

You can start the application server software independently of the workflow-related processes.

You can configure a variety of options for automatic startup. In order to provide you with all of the steps required to start this component, the procedure below assumes that no automatic startup options have been configured. Where automatic startup is configured, the related step becomes unnecessary.

TIP Click Automatic startup tip for instructions on enabling automatic startup for a step.

Workplace XT

Start the application server software.

Use the startup procedures specified by your application server software vendor.

The steps in this section assume you are using Process Task Manager to manage Component Manager. If you have configured the application server to automatically start and stop Component Manager, you can skip the next two steps and go directly to start the component queues.

Start the Process Workplace XT Services Manager service (Windows only). Automatic startup tip

Windows

Use the Windows Services console to start the Process Application Engine Services Manager service.

UNIX

Workplace XT on UNIX does not have a corresponding daemon that must be started. However, if you have enabled any Process-related features for automatic startup, you can start them at this time by entering the following at the command prompt:

routercmd.sh -autostart

Start Component Manager. Automatic startup tip

  1. If it is not already open, open Process Task Manager.
  2. Select the Component Manager node and click Start on the toolbar.

Start component queues. Automatic startup tip

  1. If it is not already open, open Process Task Manager.
  2. Expand the Component Manager node, select each component, and click Start on the toolbar.

    The table below lists component queues that are required for each FileNet P8 component.

    FileNet P8 component Queue name
    FileNet Site Publisher WCMComponentQueue
    Process Engine WS_Request
    Records Manager RM_Workflow_Util
    RM_Operations
    Workplace CE_Operations
GUI shutdown
You can stop the application server software independently of the workflow-related processes.
Workplace XT

Stop the application server software.

Use the shutdown procedures specified by your application server software vendor.

NOTE  If your application server software provides these options, you can do the following:

  • Stop an individual application: you can stop the Workplace XT application.
  • Finish work-in-progress: you can allow in-progress work to complete before stopping Workplace XT.

If you have configured the application server to automatically start and stop Component Manager, you can skip this section.

Stop all Process-related features.

Windows

Use the Windows Services console to stop the Process Application Engine Services Manager service.

UNIX
  1. If it is not already open, open Process Task Manager.
  2. Select the Component Manager node and click Stop on the toolbar.
  3. Close Process Task Manager.

Command-line procedures

Command-line startup
You can start the application server software independently of the workflow-related processes.
Workplace XT

Start the application server software.

Use the startup procedures specified by your application server software vendor.

The procedure below assumes that all processes have been enabled for automatic startup. Refer to the manual steps above for instructions for those processes which do not start automatically, and for more information on enabling automatic startup.

NOTE  If you have configured the application server to automatically start and stop Component Manager, you can skip this step.

Start all Process-related features.

Windows

net start "VWServicesWPXT"

NOTE  You can enable automatic startup for the Windows services — the command-line syntax has been included here for your reference.

UNIX

routercmd.sh -autostart

Command-line shutdown
You can stop the application server software independently of the workflow-related processes.
Workplace XT

Stop the application server software.

Use the shutdown procedures specified by your application server software vendor.

NOTE  If your application server software provides these options, you can do the following:

  • Stop an individual application: you can stop the Workplace XT application.
  • Finish work-in-progress: you can allow in-progress work to complete before stopping Workplace XT.

If you have configured the application server to automatically start and stop Component Manager, you can skip this section.

Stop the Process-related features.

Windows

net stop "VWServicesWPXT"

UNIX

routercmd.sh -autostop