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 .