The adc command may be used to start and stop processes as well as obtain information about the process that are running. This is a low level command that may be used for troubleshooting.

To run this command you have to be on the adcserver running under the appropriate account name. Simply running

adc

produces the following output that displays all available options.

Use:
    adc [opts]  [info|start|restart|stop|status|pid|config]  subsystem...

where
     Subsystem              Description             Invokes
   -----------              -----------           ---------------
   engr or engineering      Engineering GUI       adc.engr.sh
   observer                 Observer GUI          adc.obs.sh

   dispatchers or daemons   All ADC dispatchers   gal pul
   galil                    Galil disp            k1adcd.sh
   pulizzi                  Pulizzi disp          pulizzi.sh

Options:
-p,arg...       Pass arg,... to subsys as preargs (for debugging)
-P,arg...       Pass arg,... to subsys as postargs (for debugging)

as an example if you want to stop and start the dispatchers

 adc stop dispatchers
      adc start dispatchers