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Using MBeans to Stop or Restart Method Servers
To stop or restart your Windchill method servers, connect to the server manager.
From JConsole, complete the following steps to stop or restart a specific method server:
1. Start JConsole and select the connection for your server manager.
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If you are connecting to a remote machine, select the Remote Process option and then specify the host name and port number for the server manager on that machine.
2. Select the MBeans tab from the details panel.
3. From the tree, select com.ptc > MethodServers > MethodServer.<id> > Operations, where <id> identifies the method server.
4. Clicking stopMethodServer stops the method server and clicking restartMethodServer restarts the method server.
From JConsole, complete the following steps to restart all method servers:
1. Start JConsole and select the connection for your server manager.
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If you are connecting to a remote machine, select the Remote Process option and then specify the host name and port number for the server manager on that machine.
2. Select the MBeans tab from the details panel.
3. From the tree, select com.ptc > MethodServers > Operations.
4. Clicking restartAllLocalMethodServers restarts all local method servers and clicking restartAllClusterMethodServers restarts all methods servers in a cluster.