stopServer command
The stopServer command reads the configuration file for the specified server process. This command sends a Java Management Extensions (JMX) command to the server telling it to shut down. By default, the stopServer command does not return control to the command line until the server completes the shut down process. There is a -nowait option to return immediately, as well as other options to control the behavior of the stopServer command. You can run this command from the install_root/bin directory of a WebSphere Application Server installation or a Network Deployment installation.
Syntax
The command syntax is as follows:
stopServer <server> [options]where server is the name of the configuration directory of the server you want to stop. This argument is required.
Parameters
The following options are available for the stopServer command:
- -nowait
- Tells the stopServer command not to wait for successful shutdown of the server process.
- -quiet
- Suppresses the progress information that the stopServer command prints in normal mode.
- -logfile <fileName>
- Specifies the location of the log file to which information is written.
- -replacelog
- Replaces the log file instead of appending to the current log.
- -trace
- Generates trace information into a file for debugging purposes.
- -timeout <seconds>
- Specifies the time to wait for server shutdown before timing out and returning an error.
- -statusport <portNumber>
- Supports an administrator in setting the port number for server status callback.
- -conntype <type>
- Specifies the Java Management Extensions (JMX) connector type to use for connecting to the deployment manager. Valid types are Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), or Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
- -port <portNumber>
- Specifies the server Java Management Extensions (JMX) port to use explicitly, so that you can avoid reading the configuration files to obtain the information.
- -username <name>
- Specifies the user name for authentication if security is enabled in the server. Acts the same as the -user option.
- -user <name>
- Specifies the user name for authentication if security is enabled in the server. Acts the same as the -username option.
- -password <password>
- Specifies the password for authentication if security is enabled in the server.
Note: If you are running in a secure environment but have not provided a user ID and password, you will receive the following error message:
ADMN0022E: Access denied for the stop operation on Server MBean due to insufficient or empty credentials.To solve this problem, provide the user ID and password information.
- -help
- Prints a usage statement.
- -?
- Prints a usage statement.
Usage scenario
The following examples demonstrate correct syntax:
stopServer server1 stopServer server1 -nowait stopServer server1 -trace (produces the stopserver.log file)