Citrix Systems 6 User Manual

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Run the following service commands on the Workload Balancing appliance. To do so, you must log in to the
Workload Balancing virtual appliance.

Before you can run any service commands or edit the wlb.conf file, you must log in to the Workload Balancing
virtual  appliance.  To  do  so,  you  must  enter  a  user  name  and  password.  Unless  you  created  additional  user
accounts on the virtual appliance, log in using the root user account. You specified this account when you ran
Workload Balancing Configuration wizard (before you connected your pool to Workload Balancing). You can,
optionally, use the Console tab in XenCenter to log in to the appliance.

1.

At the 

<name-of-your-WLB-VPX>

 login prompt, enter the account user name. For example, where wlb-vpx-

pos-pool is the name of your Workload Balancing appliance:

wlb-vpx-pos-pool login: root

2.

At the Password prompt, enter the password for the account:

wlb-vpx-pos-pool login: root

To  log  off  the  Workload  Balancing  virtual  appliance,  simply  type  logout  at  the  command
prompt.

Run the service workloadbalancing start command from anywhere in the Workload Balancing appliance to stop
and then restart the Workload Balancing Data Collection, Web Service, and Data Analysis services.

Run the service workloadbalancing start command from anywhere in the Workload Balancing appliance to start
the Workload Balancing Data Collection, Web Service, and Data Analysis services.

Run the service workloadbalancing stop command from anywhere in the Workload Balancing appliance to stop
the Workload Balancing Data Collection, Web Service, and Data Analysis services.

Run the service workloadbalancing status command from anywhere in the Workload Balancing appliance to
determine the status of the Workload Balancing server. After you execute this command, the status of the three
Workload Balancing services (the Web Service, Data Collection Service, and Data Analysis Service) is displayed.