Restart Managed Server from Adminserver FAILED_NOT_RESTARTABLE

Question

Hi all,
I've got problems restarting the managed server from the adminkonsole ('Control'-Tab) and from within wlst while connected to the adminserver 'start('mymanaged','Server','t3://localhost:80', block='true') connected with the adminserver.
In the logfile of the administration occurs a nullPointerException:
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility.decodeText(MimeUtility.java:480)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.transport.http.DeploymentServiceServlet.mimeDecode(DeploymentServiceServlet.java:788)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.transport.http.DeploymentServiceServlet.authenticateRequest(DeploymentServiceServlet.java:523)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.transport.http.DeploymentServiceServlet.doPost(DeploymentServiceServlet.java:194)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:763)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:225)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:127)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:283)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:175)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3214)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:1983)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:1890)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1344)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:181)
The nodemanager-log shows an IOException:
<02.02.2007 12:08:42> <Warning> <Exception while starting server 'sunetweb': java.io.IOException: Server failed to start up. See server output log for more details.>
java.io.IOException: Server failed to start up. See server output log for more details.
     at weblogic.nodemanager.server.ServerManager.start(ServerManager.java:246)
     at weblogic.nodemanager.server.Handler.handleStart(Handler.java:463)
     at weblogic.nodemanager.server.Handler.handleCommand(Handler.java:115)
     at weblogic.nodemanager.server.Handler.run(Handler.java:66)
     at java.lang.Thread.run()V(Unknown Source)
In the console, the serverstate of the managed server is:
FAILED_NOT_RESTARTABLE
But in config.xml both servers have set auto-restart:true.
Starting from within wlst connected to Nodemanager instead works (nmStart("mymanaged", 'c:/win32app/bea/user_projects/domains/mydomain').
Also the serverstart with a command file works.
I want to restart the managed server from the console and from wlst connected to admin server.
What is wrong ?
Thanks, kind regards,
Thomas

Answer 1

Hi Jin,
I use wlst now to do what I want.
For a gentle restart of the managed server I connect to the Administration server and then run:
#shutdown mymanaged gently
shutdown(name='mymanaged',entityType='Server',ignoreSessions='true',timeOut=5, force='false')
#start the sever again
start('mymanaged','Server','t3://localhost:80', block='true')
Still it is not possible to restart the managed server from console (stopping works).
But wlst works for me.
I won't follow this problem further.
Thanks a lot.
Kind regards,
Thomas