Delete appservers using the job manager

We can submit the Delete appserver job to remove a server from the flexible management environment. The job can delete a stand-alone server or a server on a federated node of a dmgr.

Each server to delete must be on a managed node of the job manager.

Start the job manager. If the server to delete is on a federated node of a dmgr, also start the dmgr and the federated node. If the target node is a stand-alone appserver, also start the administrative agent.

Use the admin console of the job manager to delete an appserver from one or more managed nodes. From the job manager console, choose the Delete application server job, specify server and job options, review the summary, and submit the job.

Instead of using the job manager console, we can run the deleteApplicationServer job script in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types topic.

 

  1. Click Jobs > Submit from the navigation tree of the job manager administrative console.

  2. Choose a job to delete a server.

    1. Select the Delete appserver job type from the list.

    2. Optionally specify a description of the job.

    3. Click Next.

  3. Choose the job targets from which to delete a server.

    1. Select a group of nodes from the list, or select Node names.

    2. If you selected Node names, then specify a node name and click Add, or click Find and specify the chosen nodes on the Find nodes page.

    3. If user authentication is required, specify the user name and password.

    4. Click Next.

  4. Specify parameters for the delete server job.

    1. For Server name, specify the name of the server to delete. To see the names of existing servers on the target nodes, click Find on the Specify job parameters page. On the Find node resources page, specify the target nodes and click Find. For example, suppose a managed node, nodeA, has a server named server2 to delete. Specify the server name:
      server2
      

    2. If the target node is in a WAS, ND cell, specify the node name in the cell from which to delete the server.

      You do not have to specify the node name for a base (stand-alone) node. For example, suppose the managed node, nodeA, is a federated node in a WAS, ND cell. Specify the node name:

      nodeA
      

    3. Click Next.

  5. Schedule the job.

    1. Optionally specify one or more e-mail addresses where notifications are sent when the job finishes.

      If you specify multiple e-mail addresses, separate them with commas.

    2. Select when the job is available for submission.

    3. Select the job expiration.

    4. Optionally specify a recurring interval for the job, a start date and time for the interval, and an end date and time for the interval.

    5. Click Next.

  6. Review the summary, and click Finish to submit the job.

 

Results

The target nodes run the job and attempt to delete the appserver.

 

Next steps

On the Job status page, click the ID of the delete application server job and view the job status. Click the status refresh icon

Refresh view icon for job status to refresh the displayed status.

If the job is not successful, view any error messages that result from running the job, correct the error condition, and submit the job again.

If the job is successful, click Jobs > Node resources. The names of deleted servers are not in the list of resources.



Related tasks
Starting and stopping the job manager
Starting and stopping the admin agent
Starting and stopping the dmgr
Starting and stopping a node
Check job status

Related reference
Administrative job types using wsadmin scripting
Find nodes
Find node resources
Node resources collection

Last updated Nov 10, 2010 8:23:07 PM CST