This assumes you are able to start, stop, and restart your IBM IHS admin server using the apachectl command.

Use the ps command to ensure your system is using init.

ps -ef | head -2
UID         PID   PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root          1      0  0 Mar01 ?        00:06:58 /sbin/init

If your system is using init, create a file in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. You can give the file any name you would like.

touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/ibm-ihs-web-server

Update the file to contain the following.

#! /bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 345 96 06
# description: IBM IHS Admin Server

# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

case $1 in
  start)
    /opt/IBM/IHS/bin/apachectl -k start $2
    ;;
  stop)
    /opt/IBM/IHS/bin/apachectl -k stop $2
    ;;
  *)
    echo "/opt/IBM/IHS/bin/apachectl -k start|stop"
    ;;
esac

The service command should now be able to be used to start or stop the web server.

service ibm-ihs-web-server start
service ibm-ihs-web-server stop

Multiple web servers

Let's say you have two (or more) httpd.conf files, like this.

/opt/IBM/IHS/conf/httpd1.conf
/opt/IBM/IHS/conf/httpd2.conf

Include the -f conf/example.conf parameter.

service ibm-ihs-web-server start "-f conf/foo.conf"