How to Start, Stop and Restart IPA Properly
Issue
When starting, stopping or restarting IPA, it has been clarified that we should not use the ipactl commands and we should use the IPA systemd service instead.
ipactl commands should be used only for troubleshooting purposes.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Identity Management/IPA
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