Deployment and Management Guide for Cisco IoT FND on OVA with Postgres and InfluxDB, Release 5.x.x and Later

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Start and stop Cisco IoT FND on OVA

Updated: February 4, 2026

Overview

Use this procedure to start, stop, restart, or check the status of Cisco IoT FND on an OVA. It provides instructions for using the fnd-container script to manage the application container through the command line.

Use the fnd-container.sh {start|stop|status|restart} script in the following directory to start, stop, obtain status, and restart Cisco IoT FND.

Procedure

1.

In the SSH terminal, run the following command to change the directory to where the script is located:

Example:

cd /opt/fnd/scripts/
2.

Execute the following command to start the Cisco IoT FND container:

Example:

./fnd-container.sh start
Starting FND container...
            FND container started successfully.
3.

To stop the FND container, run:

Example:

./fnd-container.sh stop
Stopping FND container...
            FND container stopped successfully.
4.

To obtain the current status of the FND container, use:

Example:

./fnd-container.sh status
Checking FND container status...
            FND container is currently running.
5.

To restart the FND container, use:

Example:

./fnd-container.sh restart
Restarting FND container...
            FND container restarted successfully.