Recommended Portal Server Reboot Order

I work in a project where we also have control over the servers. Each time patches are installed or for some godforsaken reason if the portal environment shows signs of breathing its last.......What do we do ?......

Voila!!! Restart the servers so that we delete all connection pools and have an environment as good as new. In medical parlance....restarting the servers is like giving CPR to a dying person....
Oh!! By the way, recently I had seen a man performing CPR on a monkey that was eloctrucuted infront of our office.
Coming back to the CPR procedure.....I mean the server reboot order, Oracle WCI/BEA ALUI/Plumtree has a specific order to it which unfortunately is not present in any of the Admin guides available. Thats the reason I decided to document it for your benifit.

Shutdown

1. Portal server
2. Other component servers
3. Database server

Startup

1. Database server
2. Other component servers
3. Portal ServerPortal servers depend on the database server being up.

It is required that the database server is up first and shut down last.

My personal experience with portals says that, one should shut down the main portal server first but refrain the temptation of restarting it first. The main portal server should be started up the last with the other component servers being turned on before that.