Chapter 2. Starting and Stopping Red Hat Satellite

Satellite provides the katello-service command to manage Satellite services from the command line. This is useful when upgrading Satellite or when creating a backup, see the Red Hat Satellite Installation Guide for details on these use cases.

After installing Satellite with the satellite-installer command, all Satellite services are started and enabled automatically. View the list of these services by executing:

# katello-service list

To see the status of running services, execute:

# katello-service status

To stop all Satellite services, execute:

# katello-service stop

To start all Satellite services, execute:

# katello-service start

To restart all Satellite services, execute:

# katello-service restart