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Last updated: Sep 27, 2026 15:03 UTC

Reboot Pulse Server and Agent

This page describes how to reboot and restart the Pulse Server and Agent during scheduled maintenance or when a reboot is required to apply configuration changes.

Rebooting Pulse Server

  • Stop the admon self-monitoring service (if enabled).
systemctl stop admon && systemctl status -l admon
  • Run the following command to know the current running services.
accelo info
  • Stop and remove all the running containers.
docker stop $(docker ps -aq) && docker rm $(docker ps -aq)
  • Stop the Docker service and verify its status.
systemctl stop docker && systemctl status -l docker
  • Continue with the scheduled maintenance.

Once the server is back online, perform the following steps to restart the Docker service.

systemctl start docker && systemctl status -l docker
  • Deploy the core and addons components.
# Deploy core services
accelo deploy core
# Get earlier running components from 2nd command accelo info
accelo deploy addons
  • Restart the admon service.
systemctl start admon && systemctl status -l admon

The Pulse server has now completed a restart.

To reboot the Pulse agents follow the steps:

  • Stop all the agents by executing the following command.
systemctl stop pulsenode && systemctl stop pulselogs && systemctl stop pulsejmx
  • Check status with a single command.
systemctl status pulsenode && systemctl status pulselogs && systemctl status pulsejmx
  • Start all agents with a single command
systemctl start pulsenode && systemctl start pulselogs && systemctl start pulsejmx

Rebooting Pulse Legacy Agent

Note

Legacy Agent are for Pulse v1.8 or older.

To reboot the Pulse agents, follow the steps:

  • Stop all the agents with a single command mentioned.
systemctl stop telegraf && systemctl stop filebeat && systemctl stop jmxtrans
  • Check status with a single command
systemctl status telegraf && systemctl status filebeat && systemctl status jmxtrans
  • Start all agents with a single command
systemctl start telegraf && systemctl start filebeat && systemctl start jmxtrans

The restart of Pulse agents is now complete.