WAS v8.5 > Reference > Command-line utilities
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.
The server process can be an application server or an administrative agent server.
By default, the stopServer command does not return control to the command line until the server completes the shutdown process. There is a -nowait option to return immediately, and other options to control the behavior of the stopServer command. For more information about where to run this command, see the Use command-line tools topic.
If you are running the product on a Microsoft Windows operating system, and we have the server running as a Windows operating system service, the stopServer command stops the Windows service that is responsible for starting the server.
If security is enabled, use a user name and password with the stopServer command because the command invokes an MBean method on the server.
The user name and password parameters are not required with the stopServer command. The parameters are automatically passed into the script the Windows operating system service uses to shutdown the system.
If message ADMC0074E: Connection will be closed due to unrecoverable error is displayed in the system log file, a client might have attempted to send a user name, and password to another server on which security is disabled. We can ignore this message because the client automatically changes its security setting to match the security setting for the server with which the client is trying to communicate. The connection is eventually successfully completed. However, security is now disabled for both the administrative client and the receiving server.
Syntax
The command syntax is one of the following:
- stopServer <server_name> [options]
whereserver_name is the name of the configuration directory of the application server or the DMZ Secure Proxy Server for IBM WebSphere Application Server to stop.
This argument is required.
- stopServer <adminagent_name>
whereadminagent_name is the name of the administrative agent to stop.
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 the stopServer command prints in normal mode.
- -logfile <fileName>
- Location of the log file to which trace information is written. By default, the log file is named stopServer.log and is created in the logs directory.
- -profileName
- Defines the profile of the server process in a multi-profile installation. The -profileName option is not required for running in a single profile environment. The default for this option is the default profile.
- -replacelog
- Replaces the log file instead of appending to the current log.
- -trace
- Generates trace information into a file for debugging purposes. The trace output is written to the stopServer.log file located in the profile_root/logs/server directory.
- -timeout <seconds>
- Time to wait for server shutdown before timing out and returning an error.
- -statusport <portNumber>
- An optional parameter that allows an administrator to set the port number for server status callback. The tool opens this port and waits for status callback from the server just before the server has stopped. If the parameter is not set, an unused port is automatically allocated.
- -port <portNumber>
- Server JMX port to use explicitly, so that we can avoid reading the configuration files to obtain the information.
- -username <name>
- User name for authentication if security is enabled in the server. Acts the same as the -user option.
- -user <name>
- User name for authentication if security is enabled in the server. Acts the same as the -username option.
- -password <password>
- Password for authentication if security is enabled in the server.
If you are running in a secure environment but have not provided a user ID and password, you 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) stopServer adminagent
Related
Use command-line tools