Chapter 2. Starting and Stopping Red Hat Satellite

Satellite provides the foreman-maintain 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:

# foreman-maintain service list

To see the status of running services, execute:

# foreman-maintain service status

To stop all Satellite services, execute:

# foreman-maintain service stop

To start all Satellite services, execute:

# foreman-maintain service start

To restart all Satellite services, execute:

# foreman-maintain service restart