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
- You
can issue a stopServer command to stop a single server or the stopManager
command to stop the deployment manager.
Read the stopServer
and stopManager topics for information about the commands, including
such information as running the commands and defining the log file
names.
Read the topic on using command-line tools for information
such as determining from what directory to run the stopServer and
stopManager commands.
You can check that the server or deployment
manager has successfully stopped by checking the appropriate log file.
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 .
- 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 .