PQ67353: ADMINSERVICE.EXE PROCESS GET STARTED SUCCESSFULL,BUT AFTER SOME TIME ADMINSERVICE.EXE PROCESS GET EXITED.

 Fixes are available

4.0.6: WebSphere Application Server Version 4.0 Fix Pack 6
PQ67353, 4.0.4: Adminservice.exe terminates with no explanation
System Management Component Cumulative Fix for 4.0.2/4.0.3/4.0.4 /4.0.5



APAR status
Closed as program error.

Error description
Customer scenarios: Every night there server get recycled, aroun
d morning when customer walks into the office first thing they c
heck there services panel in W2K to check the all serive is bein
g running properly. They also notice some morning in services wi
ndows on W2K for WAS service as showing as not started. WAS IBM
WS AdminServer 4.0 to be startup type automatic. When services s
how as not started in services panel then they check the PID on
windows task manager. In task manager also reports as not runnin
g. But there are some java process running, Console works fine.
Local fix Problem summary
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* USERS AFFECTED: WebSphere Application Server users running   *
*                 on Win2k or WinNT platforms.                 *
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Admin service terminates but admin      *
*                      server and app servers run without      *
*                      problems.                               *
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* RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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There is a hard-coded 8 minute timeout that admin service
uses when it starts admin server.  If admin server does not
write back on admin service port within this period, then
admin service will terminate with no explanation.  The
admin server does not send a "ready" message to admin
service until it has received one from all the app servers
that it needs to start and, in some cases this may take
longer than 8 minutes.
Problem conclusion
This APAR corrects that problem by setting the default timeout
for this period to be INFINITE (i.e., no timeout).  This APAR
also introduces two additional properties that the user can
add to admin.config to modify some of the admin service
behavior. For additional information on these properties, see
below:

This APAR exposes two new properties that can be added to
admin.config to modify the behavior of the admin service for
WebSphere on Windows platforms.

These properties are:

1)  com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminService.verboseLogging

If this property is set to a non-zero value as in:

com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminService.verboseLogging=1

        then the admin service will produce additional entries
in the Windows Application Event Log.

2)  com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminServce.waitForTimeOut

This property sets the number of seconds that the admin service
will wait for the admin server to notify it that it (the admin
server) and  all app servers that it started have completed
their startup.

The default value for this property is 0 which means that the
admin service will not timeout waiting for notification from
the admin  server.

UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES THE USER SHOULD NOT NEED TO SET
THIS PROPERTY FROM ITS DEFAULT VALUE.
Temporary fix
Test Fix placed on:

wasdoc0:/APARS/PQ67353/windows4.04/PQ67353_eFix.jar

and readme placed on:

wasdoc0:/APARS/PQ67353/windows4.04/README.txt
Comments
APAR information
APAR number PQ67353
Reported component name WEBSPHERE AE NT
Reported component ID 5630A2201
Reported release 400
Status CLOSED PER
PE NoPE
HIPER NoHIPER
Submitted date 2002-10-17
Closed date 2002-11-13
Last modified date 2002-11-13

APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Modules/Macros
ADMINSVR          

SRLS

Fix information
Fixed component name WEBSPHERE AE NT
Fixed component ID 5630A2201

Applicable component levels
R400 PSY    UP


Document Information


Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application Server > General
Operating system(s):
Software version: 400
Software edition:
Reference #: PQ67353
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Nov 13, 2002