In a flexible management environment, you can submit the Start
application job to start enterprise applications that
are deployed on managed nodes of the job manager.
Before you begin
Start the job manager and the target nodes. If a target
node is a stand-alone application server, also start the administrative
agent.
The application that you want to start must be installed
on a managed node and not be running.
About this task
You can use the administrative console of the job manager
to submit a job that starts the running of a deployed application
file. From the job manager console, choose the Start application job,
specify the file to start, specify job options, review the summary,
and submit the job.
Starting the application changes the application
status to active, loads the application in the run time, and opens
the application to receive client requests.
Instead of using
the job manager console, you can run the startApplication job script
in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job
types topic.
Procedure
- Click from the navigation tree of the job manager administrative
console.
- Choose a job to start applications on managed nodes.
- Select the Start application job
type from the list.
- Optionally specify a description of the job.
- Click Next.
- Choose the job targets on which to start the application.
- Select a group of nodes from the list, or select Node
names.
Only groups of nodes that are valid
for the job type that you selected are displayed in the list of groups
of nodes.
- If you selected Node names, then
specify a node name and click Add, or click Find and
specify the chosen nodes on the Find nodes page.
- If user authentication is required, specify your user
name and password.
- Click Next.
- Specify parameters for the start application job.
- For Application name, specify
the base file name of the application file.
Click Find.
On the Find node resources page, select the application resource to
start.
See the topic on installing applications
using the job manager. To continue with the DynaCacheEsi.ear example
in that topic, find the application resource and specify the following
application name:DynaCacheEsi
- Click Next.
- Schedule the job.
The times and dates that
you specify are relative to the job manager.
- Optionally specify one or more e-mail addresses where
notifications are sent when the job finishes.
If you
specify multiple e-mail addresses, separate them with commas.
- Select when the job is available for submission.
- Select the job expiration.
- Optionally specify a recurring interval for the job,
a start date and time for the interval, and an end date and time for
the interval.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary, and click Finish to
submit the job.
Results
The target nodes run the job and attempt to start the application.
What to do next
On the Job status page, click the ID of the start application
job and view the job status. Click the status refresh icon
to refresh the displayed status.
If
the job is not successful, view any error messages that result from
running the job, correct the error condition, and submit the job again.
If
the job is successful, the status on the Node resources page of the
application is Started. Click to see the resource status.