Is there a way to restart IBM Http server remotely from the command line?
We are looking for any methods to restart our IHS server remotely.
Assuming your are using IHS with a Websphere Application Server deployment, then the most obvious method would be do this from the WebSphere Admin console. When you have your IHS server defined with a Web server profile in the WAS Admin console, you have the ability to do some basic management of that IHS server from the console... including starting and stopping:
As long as you can access the network where WAS is running, you can login to the Admin console via any browser and control (start/stop) the IHS server.
In terms of cmd line, this should be doable as well, but would be done via OS and/or Windows based commands, tools... remote desktop or 3rd party..etc.
For example:
>sc \\ihs_machine stop <ihs_service_name>
>sc \\ihs_machine start <ihs_service_name>
>httpd -k restart -n <ihs_service_name>