Shutdown
The application server is in the shutdown phase, that is, it will be terminated. This state is similar to the passive state, but cannot be changed to the active state. This state or phase ends with the termination of the server.
Soft Shutdown : To ensure that no requests or data are lost when closing an application server instance (AS instance), we use the soft shutdown function. A soft shutdown waits for transactions to be completed in a specific order. In this order, some states have a timeout, which can be configured with profile parameters. Other states have no timeout. Therefore, it cannot be guaranteed that the soft shutdown will terminate within a certain time span (sum of all timeouts).
We trigger the soft shutdown in transaction SM51. At the start the AS instance has status Active.
The following overview describes soft shutdown process and the actions of the system in the various states.
