3.1.1 Managing an Identity Server

The Identity Servers page is the starting point for managing Identity Servers. You can use this page to stop and start servers, and to assign servers to Identity Server clusters. Identity Server cannot operate until you assign it to an Identity Server cluster.

  1. Click Devices > Identity Servers.

  2. Under the Servers tab, the following options are available:

    Start: Starts the selected server. See Restarting Identity Server.

    Stop: Stops the selected server. See Restarting Identity Server.

    Refresh: Refreshes the server list.

    Actions: Enables you to perform the following task:

    This page also displays links in the following columns:

    Column

    Description

    Name

    Lists Identity Server and cluster configuration names.

    Status

    Lists the status of each configuration.

    Current: Indicates that the server is using the latest configuration data.

    Update: A link to update an Identity Server’s configuration data without stopping the server.

    Update All: A link displayed for cluster configurations. This lets you update all Identity Servers in a cluster to use the latest configuration data, with options to include logging and policy settings.

    For more information, see Updating Identity Server Configuration.

    Health

    Lists the health of each configuration and each server.

    Alerts

    Displays alerts. You can monitor and acknowledge server alerts.

    Commands

    Displays the Command Status page.

    Statistics

    Displays the Server Statistics page and allows you to view the server statistics. See Monitoring Identity Server Statistics.

    Configuration

    Lists Identity Server configuration to which this server belongs.

Starting and Stopping an Identity Server Through Commands

Start: Run one of the following commands:

  • /etc/init.d/novell-idp start

  • systemctl restart novell-idp.service

For the Docker deployment, perform the following steps:

  1. Run the kubectl get pods command to view the Access Manager pods.

  2. Go to the Identity Server pod by running the kubectl exec --namespace <name-of-the-namespace> -it pod/<name-of-the-identity-server-pod> -- sh command.

  3. Run the /etc/init.d/novell-idp start or systemctl restart novell-mag.service command.

Stop: Run one of the following commands:

  • /etc/init.d/novell-idp stop

  • systemctl stop novell-idp.service

For the Docker deployment, perform the following steps:

  1. Run the kubectl get pods command to view the Access Manager pods.

  2. Go to the Identity Server pod by running the kubectl exec --namespace <name-of-the-namespace> -it pod/<name-of-the-identity-server-pod> -- sh command.

  3. Run the /etc/init.d/novell-idp stop or systemctl stop novell-idp.service command.