Remember, I'm running WildFly remotely, bound to 192.168.59.103 as IP. WildFly is already up and running.

We will walk through the stop, start, restart, and reload commands separately to better explain their invocation, and eventually, the differences. For example, the start command only makes sense when running in the domain mode, as starting WildFly in the standalone mode is a manual operation.

$ cd $WILDFLY_HOME
$ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --controller=192.168.59.103:9990 --user=wildfly --password=cookbook.2015 --command=":shutdown(restart=false)"
{"outcome" => "success"}