IIS Start and Stop: Automation
Calling IISReset will stop the W3svc Service and all related Services and Start Services. This is ok, if we are using it to do in DEV or Test boxes. When we reach production, this is not valid as there might be case that there are more than 1 applications or websites on one box. Stoping and starting might raise an issue to the working applications.
Automation Commands:
a. IISRESET – Will Stop all Internet Services and Start them
b. IISRESET /STOP : This is ran when we just want to stop all Internet Services and keep Stop till action take to start the service.
c. IISRESET /START: This is Ran to Start the Internet Services. This just starts the services which was Stop by the above command.
In special Cases, if we want to Stop and Start only particular Websites perform the following actions and commands…
Win2k3:
IISWEB.vbs is the file found in C:WindowsSystem32IISWEB.vbs.
we can use this for this kind of automation
IISWEB /STOP “Default Web Site”
IISWEB /STOP W3svc/1
1 – is the Wibsite Identifier
IISWEB /STOP “Default Web Site” w3svc/1 w3svc/1121212
Can stop multiple websites
Similarly with Start also
IISWEB /START “Default Web Site”
Get more info by getting to help IISWEB /?
For Win2k8/IIS 7+
In IIS 7+, we have facility of appcmd.exe for performing any actions related to IIS.
appcmd.exe stop site /site.name:”Default Web Site”