Recycling the Application Pool

Bill Krantz
October 27, 2017

1. What is the purpose of the Application Pool?

2. Where is the Application Pool and how do I find it?
3. How do you recycle the Application Pool?

What is the purpose of the Application

Pool?
An Internet Information Services (IIS) application pool is a grouping of URLs that is
routed to one or more worker processes.

The purpose of the Application pools is to increase both the reliability and manageability
of a Web infrastructure. Their process boundaries separate each worker process;
therefore, a Web site or application in one application pool will not be affected by
application problems in other application pools. Because application pools define a set
of Web applications that share one or more worker processes, they provide a
convenient way to administer a set of Web sites and applications and their
corresponding worker processes.

Where is the Application Pool and how do

I find it?
The Application Pool is part of the Internet Information Services (IIS) and can be found
using the following steps:

1. Access the globe button at the bottom left hand corner of the tool bar and click.
2. Type in iis at the bottom search field and then <enter>

3. This will bring you to the iis manager page. From the Connections Pane on the
left. Expand out your options. Click on the “>”

4. Then from the expanded view click on Application Pools

5. You have now found the Application Pool Screen

How do you recycle the Application Pool?
There are several ways that the Application Pool can be recycled. Two of the options
are from the Application Pool window and a third option from the Command Line.
Option 1
User can simply click on the Recycle option from the Application Pool Task Action
Pane. There will be no confirmation message.

Option 2
User can click on Stop then click on Start. This will recycle the application pool.
Click Stop

then
Click Start
Option 3

Using the Command Line

To recycle an application pool, use the following syntax:

appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name: string

The variable string is the name of the application pool that you want to recycle. To
recycle the AutomationAnywhereAppPool your command would look like this:

appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name: AutomationAnywhereAppPool

Then press <ENTER>.

Special Note:
Regarding Recycle Pool intervals and Automation Anywhere

The IIS by default configures newly created application pools to recycle every 1740
minutes that is every 29 hours. If the AutomationAnywhereAppPool recycles while BOTS
are running, then they will be interrupted. To stop this from happening or to make sure
it does not happen to begin with, please check your recycling interval and if it has 1740
in it, please reduce this to 0.