Administer the Liberty profile from the command prompt

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Administer the Liberty profile from the command prompt

Use the server and ws-launch.jar commands to...

Create a server
Start and stop a server
Check if server is running.
Debug server

The wlp/bin directory contains a script called server to help with controlling the server process. Syntax...
.\server <task> [server] [options]

For example...
cd E:\IBM\Worklight\server\wlp\bin
.\server status worklightServer

For available values of the options, see Liberty profile: server command options.
The server script supports the following tasks:

create Create a new server.
run Launch the server in the foreground.
debug Run the named server in the console foreground after a debugger connects to the debug port. Default port: 7777
dump Create a snapshot of a server and save the result into an archive file
javadump Create a snapshot of the server JVM and save the result into ${server.output.dir}
package Package a server.
start Launch the server as a background process.
stop Stop a running server.
status Check to see whether a specified server is running.
version Display the version information of current server and Java runtime environment.
help Command-line script help, including details of additional options.

If a server is not specified on the command line, the task is performed against the default server instance, defaultServer, if it exists.
We can also carry out similar tasks using the executable JAR file ws-launch.jar in the wlp/lib directory.

See also

Liberty profile: server command options

Use Ant to automate tasks for the Liberty profile

Use Maven to automate tasks for the Liberty profile

Use an OSGi console

Example

To run the server script on Windows systems:
server.bat create worklightServer
server.bat package worklightServer
server.bat run worklightServer
server.bat help worklightServer

To run the server script on other systems:
server create worklightServer
server package worklightServer
server run worklightServer
server help worklightServer

To run the executable JAR file ws-launch.jar without using the server script:
java -javaagent:lib/bootstrap-agent.jar -jar lib/ws-launch.jar worklightServer --create
java -javaagent:lib/bootstrap-agent.jar -jar lib/ws-launch.jar worklightServer
java -javaagent:lib/bootstrap-agent.jar -jar lib/ws-launch.jar --help

The --help option provides information about additional command-line parameters for the executable JAR file ws-launch.jar , such as --stop, --version, --clean, --include.

Parent topic: Administer the Liberty profile manually

Related

Create a Liberty profile server manually
Packaging a Liberty profile server
Use Ant to automate tasks for the Liberty profile

create	Create a new server.
run	Launch the server in the foreground.
debug	Run the named server in the console foreground after a debugger connects to the debug port. Default port: 7777
dump	Create a snapshot of a server and save the result into an archive file
javadump	Create a snapshot of the server JVM and save the result into ${server.output.dir}
package	Package a server.
start	Launch the server as a background process.
stop	Stop a running server.
status	Check to see whether a specified server is running.
version	Display the version information of current server and Java runtime environment.
help	Command-line script help, including details of additional options.