On occasion, you may want to suspend a single process, or suspend all processes that are currently running; the latter capability is useful for enabling periods of maintenance.

The WmPRT Process Engine package installed on webMethods Integration Server contains two built-in public services to support this functionality:

You can use the suspendProcesses service to suspend a single specified process, or all running processes; the action applies to all versions of the targeted process model(s). Similarly, the resumeProcesses service enables you to resume a single specified process, or all suspended processes. This capability can be applied to a single server instance of Process Engine, or to a clustered installation.

For more information about these and other services, see Process Engine Services. This topic is also available in the PDF publication Administering webMethods Process Engine.