Since the RHN Satellite Server consists of a multitude of individual components, Red Hat provides a master service that allows you to stop, start, or retrieve status information from the various services in the appropriate order: rhn-satellite. This helper service accepts all of the typical commands:

service rhn-satellite start
service rhn-satellite stop
service rhn-satellite restart
service rhn-satellite status

Use the rhn-satellite service to shut down and bring up the entire RHN Satellite Server and retrieve status messages from all of its services at once.