Have my server started with rhqctl console --server Now I do snert:/tmp/49/rhq-server-4.8.0-SNAPSHOT hrupp$ bin/rhqctl stop 15:25:15,270 INFO [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.2.0.CR1 Stopping RHQ Agent... RHQ Agent (pid=1075) is stopping... RHQ Agent has stopped. Trying to stop the RHQ Server... RHQ Server (pid=1326) is stopping... RHQ Server has stopped. Stopping RHQ storage node... RHQ storage node (pid=546) is stopping... RHQ storage node has stopped In reality the server continues running snert:/tmp/49/rhq-server-4.8.0-SNAPSHOT hrupp$ jps -l 2624 sun.tools.jps.Jps 1324 /tmp/49/rhq-server-4.8.0-SNAPSHOT/jbossas/jboss-modules.jar 1355 /private/tmp/49/rhq-server-4.8.0-SNAPSHOT/jbossas/jboss-modules.jar 893 org.jetbrains.idea.maven.server.RemoteMavenServer 877 Server console just shows 15:25:16,898 INFO [org.rhq.enterprise.server.core.AgentManagerBean] (http-/0.0.0.0:7080-4) Agent with name [snert] just went down 15:26:17,546 WARN [org.rhq.enterprise.server.cassandra.CassandraClusterHeartBeatJob] (RHQScheduler_Worker-4) Server[id=10001,name=snert,address=snert,port=7080,securePort=7443] is unable to connect to any Cassandra node. Server will go into maintenance mode. 15:26:17,547 INFO [org.rhq.enterprise.server.cassandra.CassandraClusterHeartBeatJob] (RHQScheduler_Worker-4) Moving Server[id=10001,name=snert,address=snert,port=7080,securePort=7443] from NORMAL to MAINTENANCE 15:26:17,556 INFO [org.rhq.enterprise.server.cassandra.CassandraClusterHeartBeatJob] (RHQScheduler_Worker-4) Preparing to shut down storage client subsystem