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Table Of Contents
- System Administration
- Contents
- System Administration
- Updated Information
- Configuring vRealize Automation
- Configuring System Settings
- Configuring IaaS
- The Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Configure the vRealize Automation Appliance Database
- Perform an Appliance Database Failover
- Validate Appliance Database Replication
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Managing Tenants
- Brand Tenant Login Pages
- Install a Hotfix
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Update vRealize Automation Certificates when all are Expired
- Updating the Identity Appliance Certificate
- Updating the vRealize Appliance Certificate
- Updating the IaaS Certificate
- Replace the Identity Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Updating the vRealize Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Resolve Certificate Revocation Errors
- View License Usage
- Monitoring Logs and Services
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Customize Data Rollover Settings
- Remove an Identity Appliance from a Domain
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- Backing Up vRealize Automation
- Activate the Failover IaaS Server
- vRealize Automation System Recovery
2 Restart the primary vRealize Appliance and wait for the start up to finish.
The primary vRealize Appliance is the one containing the writeable Appliance Database, if applicable,
and the last appliance that you shut down in an ordered shut down procedure.
3 For distributed deployments, restart secondary virtual appliances, and wait for all appliances to
restart.
You do not need to wait for one appliance to finish booting up before you restart another appliance.
4 Restart the primary Web node and wait for the startup to finish.
5 If you are running a distributed deployment, start all secondary Web nodes and wait for the startup to
finish.
6 Restart all Manager Service nodes and wait for the startup to finish.
7 Restart the Distributed Execution Manager Orchestrator and Workers and all vRealize Automation
agents, and wait for the startup to finish for all components.
You can restart these components in any order.
8 Verify that the service you restarted is registered.
a Navigate to the vRealize Appliance management console by using its fully qualified domain
name, https://vra-va-hostname.domain.name:5480/.
b Click the Services tab.
c Click the Refresh tab to monitor the progress of service start up.
When all services are listed as registered, the system is ready to use.
Shut Down vRealize Automation
To preserve data integrity, you must shut down vRealize Automation in a specified order.
If you are using vCenter Server to manage your virtual machines, use the guest shutdown command to
shut down vRealize Automation.
Procedure
1 Shut down the Distributed Execution Manager Orchestrator and Workers and all vRealize Automation
agents in any order and wait for all components to finish shutting down.
2 Shut down virtual machines that are running the Manager Service and wait for the shutdown to finish.
3 (Optional) For distributed deployments, shut down all secondary Web nodes and wait for the
shutdown to finish.
4 Shut down the primary Web node, and wait for the shutdown to finish.
5 (Optional) For distributed deployments, shut down all secondary vRealize Appliance instances and
wait for the shutdown to finish.
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