On Linux, the AdminUI stops running preiodically

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

The documentation states that to start the AdminUI, you run:

standalone.sh

Environment

Applies to AdminUI 12.8.x on Linux

Cause

However, as this is a shell script, the terminal session must be kept open or the process(AdminUI) will die. Terminal shells often have timeouts that unless active, will end the session and the processes running on it.

A customer may then try to put the process to the background using:

standalone.sh &

This will not solve the issue as the terminal session is still tied to that background process, and once it terminates, so will the background process.

 

Resolution

In order to allow the process to be run independently and in the background, you need to use another command, nohup. Short for no hang up, nohup blocks the terminating signal allowing the process to continue running in the background.

Example

nohup ./standalone.sh &