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User Commands | restart-instance(1)

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- OPERANDS
- EXAMPLES
- EXIT STATUS
- SEE ALSO

## NAME

| restart-instance - restarts the specified server instance and all the services associated with it

## SYNOPSIS

| `restart-instance [ --user admin_user ] [ --password admin_password ] [ --host localhost ] [ --port 4848 ] [ --local=false ] [ --domain domain_name ] [ --passwordfile filename ] [ --secure|-s ] instance_name`

## DESCRIPTION

| Use the `restart-instance` to restart the instance with the instance name specified. The `restart-instance` command can be run both locally and remotely. To restart remotely, the administration server must be running on the hostname and port number specified. The user authenticates using the password identified for the administration server. Additionally, the instance must already exist within the domain served by the administration server, and the instance must be running. The `restart-instance` command is not supported on Windows.

## OPTIONS

| --user administrative user associated for the instance. --password administrative password corresponding to the administrative user. --host host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance. --port administrative port number associated with the administrative host. --local determines if the command should delegate the request to administrative instance or run locally. --domain name of the domain. --passwordfile file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance). --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the administrative instance.

## OPERANDS

| instance_name name of the instance to be restarted.

## EXAMPLES

| Example 1. Using `restart-instance` in local mode
    asadmin> restart-instance --local --domain domain1 server1
    Instance server1 started
Where: `server1` is the name of the instance restarted on the `domain1` domain.
Example 2. Using `restart-instance` in remote mode
    asadmin> restart-instance --user admin --password adminadmin --host bluestar
    --port 4848 server1
    Instance server1 started
Where: `server1` is the name of the instance restarted. The restarted instance is associated with the user, password, host, and port number specified.

## EXIT STATUS

| 0 command executed successfully 1 error in executing the command

## SEE ALSO

| `delete-instance`(1), `start-instance`(1), `create-instance`(1), `stop-instance`(1), `start-appserv`(1), `stop-appserv`(1), `start-domain`(1), `stop-domain`(1)

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