RECYCLING TOOL USING SCRIPTS TO STOP MIDDLEWARE INSTANCES AND RESTART SERVICES AFTER SNAPSHOTS ARE TAKEN

A recycling tool includes a memory, a monitoring engine, a script execution engine, and a status check engine. The memory stores a stop script and a restart script. The monitoring engine receives a request to begin maintenance. The script execution engine executes the stop script to stop processes on middleware servers and databases. The status check engine determines that maintenance has completed. The script execution engine executes the restart script to restart processes on middleware servers and databases.