{"id":8938,"date":"2026-10-19T23:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/support-articles\/how-to-stop-or-start-policy-manager-servers-service-in-linux-server\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:29:32","slug":"how-to-stop-or-start-policy-manager-servers-service-in-linux-server","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-stop-or-start-policy-manager-servers-service-in-linux-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop or start Policy Manager Server&#8217;s service in Linux Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How to stop or start Policy Manager Server&#39;s service in Linux Server?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For Policy Manager 16.03 and ealier:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To stop :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms stop<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To start :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms start<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To check status :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms status<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To restart :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms restart<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For Policy Manager 16.10,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To stop :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># systemctl stop fspms<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To start :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># systemctl start fspms<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To check status :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># systemctl status fspms<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To restart :\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"language-markup\" style=\"background: #efefef;padding: 8px;display: block;border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);overflow-x: auto;\"><code># systemctl restart fspms<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stop or start Policy Manager Server&#8217;s service in Linux Server<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-8938","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000007038","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-19 20:03:27","import_hash":"f86f22926837e7a56f71ad818ae390bb958e2b50","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/8938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}