Managing application servers

To view information about an application server, use the Application Servers panel on the administrative console.

You can use the Application Servers panel of the administrative console, the Getting started with scripting, or command line tools such as startServer and stopServer to manage your application servers.

Note: With WebSphere Application Server Version 6.0, you can now upgrade a portion of the nodes in a cell, while leaving others at the older release level. This means that, for a period of time, you may be managing servers that are at the current release and servers that are running the newer release in the same cell. Note that in this mixed environment, there are some restrictions on what you can do with servers that are running the older release level. There are no restrictions on what you can do with the servers that are running on the newer release level. For details, see Creating application servers and Creating clusters.

1. Access the Application Servers page. Click Servers > Application Servers in the console navigation tree.

2. View information about application servers.

   The Application Servers page lists the application servers and the cell and the nodes holding these application servers. The Network Deployment product also shows the status of each application server. The status indicates whether a server is started, stopped, or unavailable.

   To view additional information about a particular application server or to further configure an application server, click on a specific application server name under Name . This accesses the settings page for that application server.

3. Create an application server.

   1. Click Servers > Application Servers in the console navigation tree to access the Application Servers page.

   2. Click New , and follow the instructions on the Create New Application Server page.

4. Start your application server.

5. Monitor the running of application servers.

6. Stop your application server.

7. Delete an application server.

   1. Click Servers > Application Servers in the console navigation tree to access the Application Servers page.

   2. Place a checkmark in the check box beside an application server to delete it.

   3. Click Delete .

   4. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

Server collection
Starting servers
Running an application server from a non-root user and the node agent from root
Running an Application Server and node agent from a non-root user
Running application servers from a non-root user
Detecting and handling problems with run-time components
Stopping servers
Core group service settings

Related tasks
Getting started with scripting
Hot deployment and dynamic reloading
Restarting an application server in recovery mode