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Administering
This section describes how to plan for, install, configure, operate, and manage the SafeLinx Server.
Administering
The SafeLinx Administrator administration client is the primary tool for viewing, adding, configuring, and managing HCL SafeLinx resources. Along with the SafeLinx Administrator, you can use the HCL SafeLinx Monitor to view information about packet flow through the SafeLinx Server. You can also use a set of command line tools to perform common SafeLinx Server tasks.
Stopping the SafeLinx Server

Administering
This section describes how to plan for, install, configure, operate, and manage the SafeLinx Server.
- Overview
  HCL SafeLinx uses standards-based protocols to enable secure access from mobile computing devices outside the firewall to business applications and data on your organization's internal network.
- Security
  HCL SafeLinx includes a range of options for configuring the security of your network, applications, and data.
- Installation planning
  Before you install HCL SafeLinx, verify that you meet the hardware and software requirements, and that the network connections that you want to use are available.
- Roadmaps: Installing and setting up SafeLinx
  The following "roadmap" topics guide you through installing and initially configuring SafeLinx. Refer to the topic that corresponds to your relational database and server operating system.
- Installing and initial configuration
  Initial configuration and installation of HCL SafeLinx varies based on your operating system and relational database.
- Adding a secure login profile
  By default, the SafeLinx Administrator communicates with the access manager over an unencrypted connection. If you want the connection between the SafeLinx Administrator and the access manager to use transport layer security (TLS) protocols, add a secure login profile to the SafeLinx Administrator.
- Adding and configuring resources
  After you complete the installation and initial configuration, continue to prepare the deployment by configuring other network resources.
- Administering
  The SafeLinx Administrator administration client is the primary tool for viewing, adding, configuring, and managing HCL SafeLinx resources. Along with the SafeLinx Administrator, you can use the HCL SafeLinx Monitor to view information about packet flow through the SafeLinx Server. You can also use a set of command line tools to perform common SafeLinx Server tasks.
  - Using the SafeLinx Administrator
    SafeLinx Administrator is the console for the administrator to the SafeLinx Server. Review the ways in which SafeLinx Administrator presents information and the ways you can use it to administer the resources.
  - Monitoring packet flow
    Use HCL SafeLinx Monitor to view packet flow through the SafeLinx Server.
  - Starting the SafeLinx Server
    When you first install the SafeLinx Server, you can specify whether you want it to start automatically when the operating system starts. You can also start and stop the SafeLinx Server independently from the operating system from the SafeLinx Administrator, from the command line, or from the service monitor for your operating system.
  - Stopping the SafeLinx Server
- Programming reference
  There are several programming considerations of which you might want to take advantage.
- Database schema information
  HCL SafeLinx uses a DB2, Oracle, MySQL, or SQL database to store tables of information about current and past activity of SafeLinx Server sessions. The following tables are created and accessed by using the qualifier name wg for DB2 installations.
- Step by step: Nomad configuration
  Here are step-by-step instructions that serve as an example of how to install and configure HCL SafeLinx for Nomad on MySQL on Linux.

Stopping the SafeLinx Server

About this task

Use any of the following methods to stop the SafeLinx Server:

Procedure

From the SafeLinx Administrator, open the Resources page, right-click the SafeLinx Server, and then click Shutdown.
On Windows, open the Services snap-in (services.msc) of the Microsoft Management Console, right-click SafeLinx Server service (wgattachd) and then click Stop.
You do not have to stop the SafeLinx Access Manager Service (wgmgrd) or SafeLinx Secure Access Manager Service (wgmgrsd) to stop the SafeLinx Server.
From a command line on the SafeLinx Server, type the command for the operating system you use:
Windows:
```
wgstop
```
Linux:
```
sudo systemctl stop safelinx
```

What to do next

You can check whether the SafeLinx Server is running, by viewing its status from the SafeLinx Administrator. Open the Resources panel, right-click the SafeLinx Server, and then click Properties. The Current state field on the Gateway page, indicates whether the SafeLinx Server is running or stopped.

On Windows, you can also check the status of the SafeLinx Server service from the Services snap-in (services.msc) of the Microsoft Management Console. Similarly, on Linux, you can view the status of the wgated process from the operating system's services monitor.

On Linux, you can type the following command and examine the output to verify whether the SafeLinx Server process (wgated) is running:

ps -ef |grep wgated

If the output shows that a process ID assigned to wgated, then the process is running.