Stopping/Starting of the Servers

Server Stopping

The PMOD servers have been programmed such that they complete ongoing operations before shutting down, even when receiving a kill signal. For instance, the DICOM server will continue until the last image of a data transfer has been received.

If for maintenance reasons the servers have to been stopped the following order is recommended:

1. Stopping the DICOM server and waiting for its termination, so that received images can yet be announced to the database.
2. Stopping the study database transaction servers.
3. Stopping the audit trail and license server.

Server Starting

After maintenance it is recommended ot start the servers with the scripts in the Start_ATL folder in the following order:

1. Start the audit trail and license server.
2. Start the study database transaction servers.
3. Start the DICOM server.