Querying the application state using scripting

 

Use the wsadmin tool and scripting to determine if an application is running. Before starting this task, the wsadmin tool must be running. See the Start the wsadmin scripting client article for more information.

 

Overview

The following example queries the presence of the Application MBean to find out whether the application is running.

 

Procedure

• Use Jacl:

  $AdminControl completeObjectName type=Application,name=myApplication,*
  

• Use Jython:

  print AdminControl.completeObjectName('type=Application,name=myApplication,*')
  

  where:

  $	Jacl operator for substituting a variable name with its value
  AdminControl	object that enables the manipulation of MBeans running in a WAS process
  completeObjectName	AdminControl command
  type=Application,name=myApplication	hierarchical containment path of the configuration object
  print	Jython command

 

Results

If myApplication is running, then an MBean is created. Otherwise, the command returns nothing. If myApplication is running, the output would resemble the following:

WebSphere:cell=mycell,name=myApplication,mbeanIdentifier=cells/mycell/applications/myApplication.ear/ deployments/myApplication/deployment.xml#ApplicationDeployment_1,type=Application,node=mynode,Server= dmgr,process=dmgr,J2EEName=myApplication

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Use the AdminControl object for scripted administration

 

Related Reference

Commands for the AdminControl object