How to Start Weblogic Admin and Managed Server in Command Line

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The Objective

In this post, we are going to see how to Start the Weblogic Admin and managed server in the command line.

Presumably,  most of the weblogic servers in the industry is running in LINUX Operating System and So this article is designed for the Linux as well.

How to Start Weblogic

Prerequisite Boot.Properties file placement

Before starting the Instance in the command line, It is necassary that you have the boot.properties file copied from Admin Server to Managed Servers.

cp $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/security/boot.properties $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/[Managed Server Name]/security/

Sometimes you cannot find the security directory under the managed server (or) managed server directory itself would not be present in such case you can create the Directories and copy the file.

mkdir -p $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/[Managed Server Name]/security

cp $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/security/boot.properties $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/[Managed Server Name]/security/

 

If you want to know What is DOMAIN_HOME and ORACLE_HOME in Oracle parlance then refer the below article

What is ORACLE_HOME,MW_HOME,WL_HOME in Weblogic 12c

 

How to Start the Weblogic Admin Server in Command Line

cd  $DOMAIN_HOME/bin

./startWebLogic.sh > $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/logs/AdminServer.out 2>&1 &

 

How to Start the Weblogic Managed Server Command Line

cd $DOMAIN_HOME/bin

./startManagedWebLogic.sh [InstanceName] [t3 Admin URL] > $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/[InstanceName]/[InstanceName].out 2>&1 &

here

2>&1 - Redirects Errors printed (STDERR) into the STDOUT channel So that would not miss a thing

&  - is to start the instance is background

 

When to use nohup?

In Some Environments the Moment you log out the Session or lost your Network connection the Processes you have started with your username would be stopped.

In such cases, it is recommended to use nohup to make your processes survive and persistently run

How to Start the Weblogic Admin Server in Command Line - With Nohup

cd  $DOMAIN_HOME/bin

nohup ./startWebLogic.sh > $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/logs/AdminServer.out 2>&1 &

How to Start the Weblogic Managed Server Command Line - With Nohup

cd $DOMAIN_HOME/bin

nohup ./startManagedWebLogic.sh [InstanceName] [t3 Admin URL] > $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/[InstanceName]/[InstanceName].out 2>&1 &

 

Hope it helps

Cheers,

Sarav AK

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