Stopping an application server ends a server process based on the
process definition settings in the current application server configuration.
Before you begin
Make sure you understand the impact of stopping a particular server
has on your ability to handle work requests, especially if you need to maintain
a highly available environment.
About this task
There are times you need to stop an application server. For example,
you might have to apply service to an application running on that server,
or you might want to change one of the application server's configuration
setting. Use one of the following options when you need to stop an application
server.
Procedure
-
For the z/OS and distributed platforms, except AIX, you can issue the stopServer command
from the command line to stop a single server or the stopManager command
to stop the deployment manager.
You should not use the CANCEL appserver_proc_name command
to stop a server. Every time a server is started, a new temp directory
is created off of the servant process token, such as profile_root/default/temp/node_name/server_name. When the server
is cleanly stopped, these temp directories are normally
removed. However, if the server is frequently not stopped cleanly, which
happens if you cancel rather than stop the server, these temp directories
are not removed and the HFS used for these temp directories
eventually becomes full. You can also prevent this storage problem from occurring
if you precompile your JavaServer pages when you install an application or
if you use the JspBatchCompiler function to precompile them before they are
invoked.
- You can use the
administrative console to stop an application server:
- In the administrative console, click Servers > Application
Servers.
- Select the application server that you want stopped and click Stop.
- Confirm that you want to stop the application server.
- View the Status value and any messages or logs to see
whether the application server stops.
Results
The specified server stops as soon as requests assigned to that server
finish processing. To verify that the server is in stop state, in the administrative
console, click Servers > Application Servers.