Starting and Stopping the Admin Backend Service

The LizardTech Express Server Admin Backend service or daemon handles communication between the Express Server Manager and the web server. The Admin Backend service or daemon processes requests to start or stop the web server and performing licensing tasks.

Starting and Stopping Tomcat on Windows

On Windows, the Admin Backend service is called esadminagent. To restart the service, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Windows Services utility.
2. Find the LizardTech Express Server Admin Backend service.
3. Right-click on the service and click Start or Stop.

Starting and Stopping Tomcat on Linux

On Linux, Tomcat runs as a daemon called lttagentd. To restart the daemon, complete the following steps:

1. Open a terminal.

2. Run one of the following commands with root permissions:

   /etc/init.d/lttagent start

   OR

   /etc/init.d/lttagent stop