Starting applications using the job manager

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

  1. Click Jobs > Submit from the navigation tree of the job manager administrative console.
  2. Choose a job to start applications on managed nodes.
    1. Select the Start application job type from the list.
    2. Optionally specify a description of the job.
    3. Click Next.
  3. Choose the job targets on which to start the application.
    1. 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.

    2. 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.
    3. If user authentication is required, specify your user name and password.
    4. Click Next.
  4. Specify parameters for the start application job.
    1. 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
    2. Click Next.
  5. Schedule the job.

    The times and dates that you specify are relative to the job manager.

    1. 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.

    2. Select when the job is available for submission.
    3. Select the job expiration.
    4. 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.
    5. Click Next.
  6. 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 Specifies the refresh view icon for job status 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 Jobs > Node resources > resource_name to see the resource status.




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