14.2. PKI Instance Execution Management The act of starting, stopping, restarting, or obtaining the status of a PKI instance is known as execution management. Each PKI instance, separate or shared, is started, stopped, restarted, and has its status obtained separately. This section describes the execution management for any PKI instance. 14.2.1. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting a PKI Instance A PKI instance is started, stopped, and restarted like other system programs, using systemd . Log in to the server machine as root . Run the systemctl command, specifying the action and the instance name: For example: Alternatively, you can use the pki-server alias: For example: 14.2.2. Restarting a PKI Instance after a Machine Restart If a computer running one or more PKI instances is shut down unexpectedly, more services than just the PKI instances must be restarted, in the proper order, for the subsystem to be available both through the HTML services page and the administrative console. If the Directory Server instance used by the subsystem is installed on the local machine, restart the Administration Server and the Directory Server processes. Start the Certificate System subsystem instances. 14.2.3. Checking the PKI Instance Status The systemctl command can be used to check the status of a process, showing whether it is running or stopped. For example: If the instance is running, the status check returns information similar to the following example: 14.2.4. Configuring a PKI Instance to Automatically Start Upon Reboot The systemctl command can be used to automatically start instances upon reboot. For example, the following commands automatically start the Red Hat Administration Server, Directory Server, and a CA upon reboot: Note The default PKI instance installation and configuration using the pkispawn command automatically enables the instance to start upon reboot. To disable this behavior (that is, to prevent PKI instances from automatically starting upon reboot), issue the following commands: 14.2.5. Setting sudo Permissions for Certificate System Services For both simplicity of administration and security, the Certificate System and Directory Server processes can be configured so that PKI administrators (instead of only root) can start and stop the services. A recommended option when setting up subsystems is to use a pkiadmin system group. (Details are in the Red Hat Certificate System Planning, Installation, and Deployment Guide .) All of the operating system users which will be Certificate System administrators are then added to this group. If this pkiadmin system group exists, then it can be granted sudo access to perform certain tasks. Edit the /etc/sudoers file; on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, this can be done using the visudo command: # visudo Depending on what is installed on the machine, add a line for the Directory Server, the Administration Server, PKI management tools, and each PKI subsystem instance, granting sudo rights to the pkiadmin group: # For Directory Server services %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl * dirsrv.target %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl * dirsrv-admin.service # For PKI instance management %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/sbin/pkispawn * %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/sbin/pkidestroy * # For PKI instance services %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl * pki-tomcatd@ instance_name .service Important Make sure to set sudo permissions for every Certificate System, Directory Server, and Administration Server on the machine - and only for those instances on the machine. There could be multiple instances of the same subsystem type on a machine or no instance of a subsystem type. It depends on the deployment.

Commands:
systemctl start|stop|restart pki-tomcatd@ instance_name .service
systemctl restart pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service
pki-server start|stop|restart instance_name
pki-server restart pki-tomcat
systemctl start dirsrv-admin.service systemctl start dirsrv@ instance_name .service
pki-server start instance_name
systemctl -l status pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service - PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd@.service; enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2015-11-20 19:04:11 MST; 12s ago Process: 8728 ExecStop=/usr/libexec/tomcat/server stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 8465 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/tomcat/server start (code=exited, status=143) Process: 8316 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/pkidaemon start tomcat %i (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 8465 (code=exited, status=143) Nov 20 19:04:10 pki.example.com server[8728]: options used: -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager Nov 20 19:04:10 pki.example.com server[8728]: arguments used: stop Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: Nov 20, 2015 7:04:11 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: INFO: A valid shutdown command was received via the shutdown port. Stopping the Server instance. Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: PKIListener: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer[before_stop] Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: PKIListener: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer[stop] Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: PKIListener: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer[configure_stop] Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: Nov 20, 2015 7:04:11 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol pause Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com server[8465]: INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] Nov 20 19:04:11 pki.example.com systemd[1]: Stopped PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat.
systemctl -l status pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service - PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd@.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-11-20 19:09:09 MST; 3s ago Process: 8728 ExecStop=/usr/libexec/tomcat/server stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 9154 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/pkidaemon start tomcat %i (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 9293 (java) CGroup: /system.slice/system-pki\x2dtomcatd.slice/pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service ������9293 java -DRESTEASY_LIB=/usr/share/java/resteasy-base -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib64/nuxwdog-jni -classpath /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy==/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf/catalina.policy org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start Nov 20 19:09:10 pki.example.com server[9293]: Nov 20, 2015 7:09:10 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal Nov 20 19:09:10 pki.example.com server[9293]: INFO: Starting service Catalina Nov 20 19:09:10 pki.example.com server[9293]: Nov 20, 2015 7:09:10 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal Nov 20 19:09:10 pki.example.com server[9293]: INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.54 Nov 20 19:09:10 pki.example.com server[9293]: Nov 20, 2015 7:09:10 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor Nov 20 19:09:10 pki.example.com server[9293]: INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml Nov 20 19:09:12 pki.example.com server[9293]: Nov 20, 2015 7:09:12 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor Nov 20 19:09:12 pki.example.com server[9293]: INFO: Deployment of configuration descriptor /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml has finished in 2,071 ms Nov 20 19:09:12 pki.example.com server[9293]: Nov 20, 2015 7:09:12 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor Nov 20 19:09:12 pki.example.com server[9293]: INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/Catalina/localhost/pki#admin.xml
systemctl enable dirsrv-admin.service systemctl enable dirsrv.target systemctl enable pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service
systemctl disable pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service systemctl disable dirsrv.target systemctl disable dirsrv-admin.service
visudo
For Directory Server services %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl * dirsrv.target %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl * dirsrv-admin.service For PKI instance management %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/sbin/pkispawn * %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/sbin/pkidestroy * For PKI instance services %pkiadmin ALL = PASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl * pki-tomcatd@ instance_name .service