Control

Use this page to confirm that you want to start or stop a region.

Start: Click this to start the region. Clicking this opens the Region Start Options dialog box. Specify the options you require, and then click OK.
Stop: Click this to stop the region. Clicking this opens the Region Stop Options dialog box. Specify the options you require, and then click OK.
Mark as Stopped: Click the arrow-down icon () next to the Stop button and then click Mark as Stopped if you know that all the processes for this server are already stopped.
Stop Polling: This enables you to stop polling for the region's status while starting and stopping a region.
Note: Clicking Stop Polling will not stop the region form starting or stopping.

Region Start Options

Cold Start: Click this to cold start a PAC, this will remove all existing data from each SOR in the PAC. If a region is cold started and another instance is already running in the same PAC, then the start will be changed to a warm start.
Use current user credentials: Start the region as the user you have already logged in as.
User Name: Username of the user you want to use to start the region.
Password: Password of the user you want to use to start the region.
Group: Specifies the sign-on group for the user. By default, when a user requests access some external security managers only apply rules that refer to that user and the user's current sign-on group. If this option is not specified, the user is signed on with a default group as determined by the security manager. This is ignored if Use All Groups is checked in the ESF security configuration. In this case, it uses all groups which the user is a member of.

Region Stop Options

Clear dynamically assigned server address values: Check this to indicate that you want addresses and port numbers that were dynamically assigned when you created new communications processes and listeners to be cleared.
Use "Force stop" option: Check this if you want to perform a forced shutdown of the server.
Use current user credentials: Stop the region as the user you have already logged in as.
User Name: Username of the user you want to use to stop the region.
Password: Password of the user you want to use to stop the region.
Group: Specifies the sign-on group for the user. By default, when a user requests access some external security managers only apply rules that refer to that user and the user's current sign-on group. If this option is not specified, the user is signed on with a default group as determined by the security manager. This is ignored if Use All Groups is checked in the ESF security configuration. In this case, it uses all groups which the user is a member of.

Note: When an enterprise server starts or stops, it connects to Directory Server to obtain its configuration details and, later in the start or stop process, to update Directory Server information. To do this, it requires Directory Server user credentials, that is, credentials that Directory Server will verify and authorize. In order to update the Directory Server information, this user must be granted modify permission on the appropriate enterprise server resource within Directory Server.

The start or stop process also requires user credentials that the enterprise server will verify and authorize. In order to run the command used to start or stop the enterprise server, the user must have Alter permissions on the casstart resource within the OPERCMDS resource class.

It is important to note that the enterprise server is a separate security domain from the Directory Server. For example, it may be using different security configuration and different security managers.

You can specify that startup or stop should use built-in default users or the credentials with which you are currently logged on to Enterprise Server Common Web Administration. Alternatively, you can specify a different username and password.

If you use the currently logged on user, or specify alternative user credentials, you must ensure that the user is present in both the Directory Server and the enterprise server security domains. Within the Directory Server domain, the user must have modify permission on the appropriate enterprise server resource within the Servers resource class. Within the enterprise server security domain, the user must have alter permissions on the casstart resource within the OPERCMDS resource class.

Region Processes Status

The Region Processes bar indicates at which stage of the starting and stopping process the region is at. The Directory Server initiates the starting and stopping processes and queries the status at specific stages.

Communication Process Status

The Communication Process bar(s) indicate the status of each Communication Process used by the region. It indicates if the Communications Processes are started, and each listener owned by it. A disabled listener will not attempt to start, this state is indicated by red bar. A pending listener needs to be started from the Listeners page, but until then it is displayed as a yellow bar.

Monitoring and Control Access Status

The Monitoring and Control Access bar indicates if ESCWA can communicate with the monitoring and control elements of the region (formerly known as ESMAC). This will display Stopped if ESCWA cannot contact it, Starting if monitoring and control is initiating, and Started if the region is fully initiated and any correctly configured region features are started.

Region Features Status

The Region Features indicators display the status of each feature for the region:

When monitoring and control access cannot be contacted, the indicators will be blank.
If it is starting and any of the MSS, JES, IMS, MQ, TCL, CWS, and PL/I features have been enabled, the indicators for these will be displayed as a yellow bar.
If it is started and any of the MSS, JES, IMS, MQ, TCL, CWS, and PL/I features have been enabled but have not been configured correctly, the bars will be red to indicate that these features are not enabled as expected.
If it is started and any of the MSS, JES, IMS, MQ, TCL, CWS, and PL/I features have been enabled and have been correctly configured, or TRANCLASS and CWS have been configured on the region, the bars will be green to indicate that these features are enabled as expected.