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

  1. Stop the admon self-monitoring service (if enabled).

systemctl stop admon && systemctl status -l admon

  1. Run the following command to know the current running services.

accelo info

  1. Stop and remove all the running containers.

docker stop $(docker ps -aq) && docker rm $(docker ps -aq)

  1. Stop the Docker service and verify its status.

systemctl stop docker && systemctl status -l docker

  1. 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

  1. Deploy the core and addons components.

# Deploy core services accelo deploy core # Get earlier running components from 2nd command accelo info accelo deploy addons

  1. 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:

  1. Stop all the agents by executing the following command.

systemctl stop pulsenode && systemctl stop pulselogs && systemctl stop pulsejmx

  1. Check status with a single command.

systemctl status pulsenode && systemctl status pulselogs && systemctl status pulsejmx

  1. 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:

  1. Stop all the agents with a single command mentioned.

systemctl stop telegraf && systemctl stop filebeat && systemctl stop jmxtrans

  1. Check status with a single command

systemctl status telegraf && systemctl status filebeat && systemctl status jmxtrans

  1. Start all agents with a single command

systemctl start telegraf && systemctl start filebeat && systemctl start jmxtrans

The restart of Pulse agents is now complete.


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