SAP BASIS & Security: How to Start & Stop SAP Webdispatcher

Thursday, October 27, 2011

UNIX / Linux

In UNIX or Linux operating system. You can use below command to start or stop SAP Webdispatcher. Make sure you logged as SIDadm to perform this task.

Start SAP Webdispatcher

       > sapwebdisp pf=<PROFILE-NAME> 

Stop SAP Webdispatcher
Find the process ID for SAP Webdispatcher by executing command ps -ef and grep the dev_webdisp_SID

       > ps -ef | grep dev_webdisp_SID 
        
       root 24498 1234  0  May 29 /usr/sap/../run/sapwebdisp pf=SID.pfl dev_webdisp_SID 

2. Kill the PID

       # kill -2 1234 

You can start or stop SAP Webdispatcher from Windows Services or from Computer Management MMC