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Error – System cannot be stopped when it is not currently started.

Products

Webtrends Analytics 8.x
Webtrends Analytics 9.x

Issue

When using the systemshutdown.exe executable to shutdown all services within webtrends to make a backup, the error “Error – System cannot be stopped when it is not currently started” displays and the system fails to shut down.

Cause

At some point in the past, entries in the wt_systemstate table were not cleared, and the wt_systemstate table must be empty when the system starts.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, perform the steps below:

1. Stop all the Webtrends Scheduler Services so no jobs are running.
2. Backup the wtmaster and wt_sched databases (to be safe).
3. In SQL Management Studio or SQLCMD, connect to the wt_sched database and run the following delete statement:

  • DELETE FROM WT_SystemState;
Once this has completed, the systemshutdown option can be run from the following location:

\Webtrends\modules\analysis


Example of a successful execution of systemshutdown:

D:\Program Files\WebTrends\modules\analysis>systemshutdown mode=stop
System Shutdown/Startup Tool
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=============== System Shutdown/Startup Tool Started ===============
System Successfully Stopped
=============== System Shutdown/Startup Tool Finished ===============