The order in which the Secure API Manager components start is very important to ensure that the different components can communicate with each other. If you shut down or restart an appliance in a distributed or clustered environment, you must ensure that you are shutting down or restarting the components on the appliance in the proper order.
You might need to initiate a graceful shutdown or restart the appliance for maintenance purposes. The appliance management console allows you to restart or shut down the appliance. If you shut down the appliance you must use the Power on option in the VMware management tool to start the appliance.
Log in to the appliance management console as the vaadmin user.
https://ip-address-or-dns-name-appliance:9443Ensure that you are shutting down or restarting the components in the proper order, otherwise the components will stop communicating with each other. For more information, see Restarting Secure API Manager.
In the upper right corner of the Appliance Configuration pane, click Reboot or click Shutdown.