Starting and stopping the WebSphere Application Server node agent

Starting and stopping the WebSphere Application Server node agent is accomplished by using the startNode and stopNode commands.

Procedure

1. To start or stop the WebSphere Application Server node agent:
   1. Ensure that you are logged in as the non-root user ID created before installing WebSphere Commerce.
   2. Ensure that your database management system is started.
   3. Enter the following commands in a terminal window:

      su - non_root_user
      cd WC_profiledir/bin

   • To start the node agent, enter the following command: ./startNode.sh
   • To stop the node agent, enter the following command: ./stopNode.sh
2. To start or stop the WebSphere Application Server node agent:
   1. Log on using Windows user ID with Administrator authority.
   2. Start a command prompt session.
   3. Issue the following command: cd WC_profiledir/bin
   • To start the node agent, enter the following command: startNode
   • To stop the node agent, enter the following command: stopNode