Starting up and shutting down the entire Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure is quite simple and straightforward once you are familiarized with the commands. It is often performed via the command line, WLST, or the console, and choosing one approach over another is merely a matter of preference and choice for the administrator. Generally speaking, using WLST and Node Manager are the recommended approaches for a production environment.

There are cases when the administrator may want to turn on or off a particular service, such as an SOA composite or an OSB service. This is described in Chapter 4, Managing Services.

In this chapter, you learned how to start up and shut down the infrastructure entirely from the command line, mostly from the console, and using WLST. You also learned how to verify that the environment has started up and shut down.