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Websense Content Filtering Services Shutdown and Startup Order

July 28, 2009

When stopping or starting the services for Websense content filtering software, there is a specific order in which the services should be stopped and started. While this information is documented by Websense, it can sometimes be difficult to find so I’ve decided to publish this information here as an additional reference.

Begin by stopping the following services in any order:

Apache Services (Websense 7.x)

Apache2Websense
ApacheTomcatWebsense

Transparent Identification Agents

Websense DC Agent
Websense e-Directory Agent

Logging and Reporting Services

Websense Explorer Report Scheduler
Websense Information Service for Explorer
Websense Reporter Scheduler
Websense Log Server

Other Websense Services

Websense Usage Monitor

Once these services has been stopped you can proceed with stopping the Websense core services in the following order:

Websense Network Agent
Websense Filtering Service
Websense User Service
Websense Policy Server
Websense Policy Broker (Websense 7.x)
Websense Policy Database (Websense 7.x)

To start these services simply proceed in the reverse order of that listed above.

  1. July 30, 2009 at 4:52 am

    Hi Richard,

    great info!

    Regards,
    Paulo Oliveira.

  2. Jeff Hagedorn
    January 7, 2010 at 7:09 am

    @echo off
    echo “Starting Websense (core components)”
    net start “Websense Policy Database”
    net start “Websense Policy Broker”
    net start “Websense Policy Server”
    net start “Websense User Service”
    net start “Websense Filtering Service”
    net start “Websense Network Agent”

    echo “Starting Websense (optional components)”
    net start “Apache2Websense”
    net start “ApacheTomcatWebsense”
    net start “Websense Log Server”
    net start “Websense Explorer Report Scheduler”
    net start “Websense DC Agent”
    net start “Websense Logon Agent”
    net start “Websense Information Service for Explorer”
    net start “Websense Usage Monitor”

    —————–
    @echo off

    echo “Stopping Websense (optional components)”
    net stop “ApacheTomcatWebsense”
    net stop “Apache2Websense”
    net stop “Websense Usage Monitor”
    net stop “Websense Information Service for Explorer”
    net stop “Websense Logon Agent”
    net stop “Websense DC Agent”
    net stop “Websense Explorer Report Scheduler”
    net stop “Websense Log Server”

    echo “Stopping Websense (core components)”
    net stop “Websense Network Agent”
    net stop “Websense Filtering Service”
    net stop “Websense User Service”
    net stop “Websense Policy Server”
    net stop “Websense Policy Broker”
    net stop “Websense Policy Database”

  3. January 11, 2010 at 7:18 am

    Thanks Jeff!

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