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How to Stop a DSA

You can stop a DSA using DXmanager or a DSA console.

However, if a DSA has a multiwrite queue and Wait for Multiwrite is set to True for that DSA, the DSA does not stop. This is to prevent the queue being lost. If Wait for Multiwrite is True, the DSA does not stop until the queue has been flushed (that is, the target DSA has accepted all of the queued updates).

To ensure a DSA stops, we recommend that you stop processes in this order:

1. Stop any applications.

   This prevents any further updates being sent to the directory.

2. Stop any router DSA.

   This prevents updates being routed from other DSAs.

3. Stop the data DSA.

We recommend that you do not forcibly stop a DSA with queues, because this causes the queues to be permanently lost.