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Table Of Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Contents
- Updated Information
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Replace Certificates in the vRealize Automation appliance
- Replace the Infrastructure as a Service Certificate
- Replace the IaaS Manager Service Certificate
- Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Managing the vRealize Automation Postgres Appliance Database
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- Configuring the Customer Experience Improvement Program for vRealize Automation
- Adjusting System Settings
- Monitoring vRealize Automation
- Monitoring and Managing Resources
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
- Managing Machines
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Running Actions for Provisioned Resources
Prerequisites
Verify that load balancers that your deployment uses are running.
Procedure
1 Restart the all instances of the vRealize Automation appliance at the same time.
2 Restart the primary Web node and wait for the startup to finish.
3 If you are running a distributed deployment, start all secondary Web nodes and wait for the startup to
finish.
4 Restart all Manager Service nodes and wait for the startup to finish.
5 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.
6 Verify that the service you restarted is registered.
a Navigate to the vRealize Automation 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 startup.
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 Automation appliance
instances and wait for the shutdown to finish.
Managing vRealize Automation
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