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Use this command to shut down the Indexers running in your environment.

Note

If there are multiple Indexers instances (forming an Indexer cluster) running in your environment, then by running this command all Indexer instances are shut down.

BMC recommends that instead of stopping individual Indexers, use this command to stop the whole Indexer cluster. This is important when the Indexers in a cluster are deployed on more than one host.

Warning

Stopping the individual Indexer nodes can result in data loss and performance degradation.

When you restart an Indexer, the Indexer cluster rebalances the data collected to spread them equitably across all Indexers; this helps even the load of searches across Indexers. Rebalancing happens automatically each time an Indexer is added to the cluster.

To understand the syntax and examples, see:

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Syntax

Note

Prefix this command with the following, as appropriate:

  • For Windows: itda.bat
  • For Linux: ./itda.sh

shutdown -u <userName> [-v] [-s] -w <password> -d <hostName> -p <portNumber> -c <componentName>
  • Angle brackets (< >) indicate a variable value that needs to be user defined.

  • Square brackets ([ ]) indicate optional parameters.

The following table describes the parameters used in the syntax:

ParameterDescription
-d
MultiExcerpt named host was not found -- Please check the page name and MultiExcerpt name used in the MultiExcerpt-Include macro
-c

Enter indexer

(Component name)

-p
MultiExcerpt named port was not found -- Please check the page name and MultiExcerpt name used in the MultiExcerpt-Include macro
-u
MultiExcerpt named username was not found -- Please check the page name and MultiExcerpt name used in the MultiExcerpt-Include macro
-v
MultiExcerpt named version was not found -- Please check the page name and MultiExcerpt name used in the MultiExcerpt-Include macro
-w
MultiExcerpt named password was not found -- Please check the page name and MultiExcerpt name used in the MultiExcerpt-Include macro
-s
MultiExcerpt named ssl was not found -- Please check the page name and MultiExcerpt name used in the MultiExcerpt-Include macro

Example input

The following example provides the input for shutting down the Indexer(s):

shutdown -u admin -w admin -d localhost -p 9797 -c indexer