Stopping and Starting Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

You are not expected to regularly stop and start the Alation services. If there is an issue, an Alation Support engineer will guide you through the restart process.

Alation runs in a root jail environment, and access to services in the Alation environment is through the Alation shell.  You need to have an account with the sudo access to the Alation server to run the commands given below.

Stop Alation

To stop all Alation services:

sudo /etc/init.d/alation stop

Start Alation

To start all Alation services:

sudo /etc/init.d/alation start

Accessing individual services and checking the Alation status

To access information on individual services running in the Alation environment, enter the Alation shell:

sudo /etc/init.d/alation shell

In the Alation shell you can check status, start, and stop individual services as follows using one of the actions start, stop, or status:

Postgres

2021.3.x and newer

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-13 status | start | stop

V R6 (5.10.x) - 2021.2.x

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.6 status | start | stop

Releases Before V R6 (5.10.x)

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.3 status | start | stop

Other Services

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx status | start | stop
sudo /etc/init.d/sensu-client status | start | stop
sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server status | start | stop
sudo /etc/init.d/download-client status | start | stop
alation_supervisor status all

System Reboot

In Linux distributions that use sysvinit, Alation services are registered with chkconfig and will be shut down and restarted on reboot. In particular, Debian 9 and 10 may optionally use sysvinit, although they install with systemd by default. Other Linux distributions that Alation supports don’t use sysvinit and use systemd instead. On such distributions, you may need to restart Alation services manually after a system reboot.