Attending to an Unresponsive ServerChapter 8 Starting and Stopping CMS Instances 3253. In the right pane, check the Server Status field.If the selected instance of Certificate Management System is running, the statuswill be Started. Otherwise it will be Stopped or Unknown.Attending to an Unresponsive ServerIf an error causes Certificate Management System to become unresponsive, and allattempts to stop it from Netscape Console fail, it may be necessary to kill the serverprocesses manually. For this purpose, Certificate Management System provides acommand-line tool killproc, which is explained in CMS Command-Line ToolsGuide.CMS Watchdog ProcessThe CMS watchdog is a native bootstrapping program that provides specific nativefunctions. It works with Certificate Management System to enable it to start upusing a single password—instead of multiple passwords—called the single sign-onpassword. In addition, it manages the start-up, stop, and restart states of CertificateManagement System.The watchdog process (identified as cms_watchdog) implements the followingoperations:• Starts Certificate Management System and the Virtual Java Machine, or JavaVM—the watchdog allows you to start Certificate Management System byusing a single password instead of the multiple passwords that wouldotherwise be required. For details, see “Required Start-up Information” onpage 312. (During CMS installation the watchdog stores all the passwordsrequired by the server for starting up in a password cache, which is explainedin “Password Cache” on page 326.)• Stops Certificate Management System.• Restarts Certificate Management System (after configuration changes).• Detects Certificate Management System crashes and restarts the server—thewatchdog monitors Certificate Management System and the Java VM,restarting the server in the case of a failure.• In the Unix version of Certificate Management System, the watchdog recordsthe server process ID (pid) and sets the user ID (uid) of the process.
