Stopping a service

Some maintenance procedures require you to stop a single service while keeping other services on the grid node running. Only stop individual services when directed to do so by a maintenance procedure.

Before you begin

You must have the Passwords.txt file.

About this task

When you use these steps to administratively stop a service, Server Manager will not automatically restart the service. You must either start the single service manually or restart Server Manager.

If you need to stop the LDR service on a Storage Node, be aware that it might take a while to stop the service if there are active connections.

Procedure

From the service laptop, log in to the grid node:
1. Enter the following command: ssh admin@grid_node_IP
2. Enter the password listed in the Passwords.txt file.
3. Enter the following command to switch to root: su -
4. Enter the password listed in the Passwords.txt file.
When you are logged in as root, the prompt changes from $ to #.
Stop an individual service: service servicename stop
For example:
```
service ldr stop
```
Note: Services can take up to 11 minutes to stop.
Log out of the command shell: exit