The startServer command reads the configuration file for
the specified application server and starts the server.
If you are using the Windows platform and the you have
the application server running as a Windows service, the startServer command
will start the associated Windows service and it will be responsible for starting
the application server.
For more information about where to run this command, see the Using
command line tools article.
Syntax
The command syntax is as follows:
startServer <server> [options]
where
server is
the name of the application server to start.
This
argument is required.
Parameters
The following options are available for
the startServer command:
- -?
- Prints a usage statement.
- -help
- Prints a usage statement.
- -logfile <fileName>
- Specifies the location of the log file to which trace information is written.
By default, the log file is named startServer.log and is created in your logs directory.
- -nowait
- Tells the startServer command not to wait for successful initialization
of the launched server process.
- -profileName
- Defines the profile of the Application Server process in a multi-profile
installation. The -profileName option is not required for running in a single
profile environment. The default for this option is the default profile.
- -quiet
- Suppresses the progress information that the startServer command
prints in normal mode.
- -replacelog
- Replaces the log file instead of appending to the current log.
- -recovery
- Specifies that the server will start in recovery mode, perform a transactional
recovery, and shut down. The server will not accept any new transactions while
it is in recovery mode. When you start the server again, resources that were
unavailable due to questionable transactions will be available.
Use this
option if a server fails and you do not want to accept new transactions during
the recovery process.
- -statusport <portNumber>
- Specifies that an administrator can set the port number for server status
callback.
- -script [<script fileName>] -background
- Generates a launch script with the startServer command instead
of launching the server process directly. The launch script name is an optional
argument. If you do not supply the launch script name, the default script
file name is start_<server> based on the <server> name
passed as the first argument to the startServer command. The -background parameter
is an optional parameter that specifies that the generated script will run
in the background when you execute it.
Note: The startserver.sh script launches
a new process from the app_server_root directory to initialize the
application server. The start_server1.sh script launches the application server
from the directory in which the script is located. Because of this, the directory
for the process launched using the startserver.sh script is the app_server_root directory
and the directory for the process launched using the start_server1.sh script
is the app_server_root/bin directory. Any system properties that are
dependant on the process directory such as user.dir, might be different for
processes launched using the startserver.sh and start_server1.sh scripts.
- -trace
- Generates trace information to the log file for debugging
purposes.
- -timeout <seconds>
- Specifies the waiting time before server initialization times out and
returns an error.
Usage scenario
The following examples
demonstrate correct syntax:
startServer server1
startServer server1 -script (produces the start_server1.sh or .bat files)
startServer server1 -trace (produces the startserver.log file)