Managed servers are started/stopped from admin console using NodeManager

Question

Hi,
I have weblogic cluster and it has 4 managed servers on two different machines with each machine having 2 managed servers.
I have node manager setup on the two machines. I use admin console to start/stop managed servers.
Now there is a requirement to add TIBCO lib and bin path to weblogic managed server path. I have added the entries in LD_LIBARY_PATH but on starting the server using admin console the TIBCO lib/bin paths are not appended to weblogic server path.
I noticed that in nodemanager.properties we have set StartScriptEnabled=false and so it doesn't use startWebLogic.sh,which internally use other configuration files.
I'm wondering as how to add these entries in WebLogic server path. Also, how the nodemanager is able to start the managed server without using startWebLogic.sh script.
In general, what happens when I click the start button in Admin console to start the managed servers which calls NodeManager internally.
Your inputs are highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
BR,
Ajmal

Answer 1

Hi Ajmal,
For your issue there are two solution's as shown below:
Solution-1
You can add the TIBCO lib with the complete path where the TIBCO lib file is kept from console in Class Path
Console Path:
Servers > Configuration > Server Start
However this has to be done with all the managed serves.
Solution-2
If you don't want the burden to add the TIBCO lib files on every server from console then you can add the same lib files in the classpath of startWebLogic.sh and in nodemanager.properties we have set StartScriptEnabled=true. This will make sure that all the settings would be taken from the startWebLogic.sh.
This way whenever you start any of you managed servers from console it would pick up that lib files.
In both the solution you can check the managed servers *.out* files that the lib files would be present in there classpath.
Hope this would help you.
Regards,
Ravish Mody