WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 6.0.x     Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Starting servers

Why and when to perform this task

Starting a server starts a new server process based on the process definition settings of the current server configuration.

The node agent for the node on which the Application Server resides must be running before you can start the Application Server.

[Version 6.0.2]This procedure for starting a server normally also applies to restarting a server. The one exception might be if a server fails and you want the recovery functions to complete their processing prior to new work being started on that server. In this situation you must restart the server in recovery mode.

If you created a new server definition using a base WebSphere Application Server, you cannot start, stop, or manage the new server using the original base Application Server.

Note: After you start an Application Server, other processes might not discover the running Application Server immediately. Application Servers are discovered by the node agent. Node agents are discovered by the deployment manager. Node agents usually can discover local Application Servers quickly but it can take a deployment manager from 2 to 60 seconds to discover a node agent.
Note: If you are using clusters, note that the Initial State property of the Application Server subcomponent (Servers > Application Server > server_name > Administration > Server Components > Application Server) is not intended to be used to control the state of individual servers in the cluster at the time the cluster is started. It is intended only as a way to control the state of the Application Server subcomponent of a server. It is best to start and stop the individual servers of a cluster using the Server options of the Administrative Console or command line commands (startServer and stopServer).

There are several options for starting an Application Server:

Steps for this task (dependent on configuration)

Result

Once the server is started, you can install your applications.



Sub-topics
Restarting an application server in recovery mode

Related reference
addNode command
removeNode command
serverStatus command
startNode command
startServer command
stopNode command
stopServer command
startManager command
stopManager command

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