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 creating a backup of Satellite. For more information on creating backups, see Section 8.1, “Backing up Satellite Server or Capsule Server”.

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

# katello-service list

To see the status of running services, execute:

katello-service status

# katello-service status

To stop all Satellite services, execute:

katello-service stop

# katello-service stop

To start all Satellite services, execute:

katello-service start

# katello-service start

To restart all Satellite services, execute:

katello-service restart

# katello-service restart