Starting Servers with Ant

Question

Hi,
I am using WLS 8.1 SP2 and the Ant that comes with it to start my managed server.
However, as documented the server VM shuts when the Ant script finishes. I have
tried adding fork="true" to my <wlserver> task but this still does not work. I
have resorted to using an <exec> task and a shell script but this does not seem
as nice.
Can anyone offer some advice?
Regards
Geoff

Answer 1

Well my examples assumed you were starting a managed server that was
connecting an admin server listening @ t3://127.0.0.1:7001. If your admin
server isn't listening at that address and on that port you'll need to
obviously make changes to the build file ;-) but I know it will work as I
pulled the example straight from a project build file. You could also
enable MSI on the servers but that's not an ellegant sollution just to get
around an error. Let me know if it works for you ;-)
~Ryan Upton
"Geoff Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
Ryan,
I tried that but I got this:
[java] <05-Jul-2004 08:14:42 o'clock BST> <Error> <Management><BEA-141137>
<Managed Server was attempting to boot in Managed Server Independencemode, but
was unable to complete the boot process as the Managed Server was unableto locate
the cached configuration file:/opt/apps/bea/user_projects/domains/mydomain/./msi-config.xml>
>
Which is fair given I do not have one of those files! Any suggestions?
Regards
Geoff
"ryan upton" <[email protected]> wrote:
Geoff,
You could try:
<java classname="weblogic.Server" fork="yes"
dir="${env.WEBLOGIC_DOMAIN}">
<jvmarg value="-Xms32m"/>
<jvmarg value="-Xmx32m"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.Name" value="server1"/>
<sysproperty key="bea.home" value="${BEA_HOME}"/>
<!-- store the paswords in a user config file for production
servers -->
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.username" value="system"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.password" value="weblogic"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.server"
value="t3://127.0.0.1:7001"/>
<sysproperty key="java.security.policy"
value="${WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.policy"/>
</java>
If you want to start more than one with the same script
<parallel>
<java classname="weblogic.Server" fork="yes"
dir="${env.WEBLOGIC_DOMAIN}">
<jvmarg value="-Xms32m"/>
<jvmarg value="-Xmx32m"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.Name" value="server1"/>
<sysproperty key="bea.home" value="${BEA_HOME}"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.username" value="system"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.password" value="weblogic"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.server"
value="t3://127.0.0.1:7001"/>
<sysproperty key="java.security.policy"
value="${WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.policy"/>
</java>
<java classname="weblogic.Server" fork="yes"
dir="${env.WEBLOGIC_DOMAIN}">
<jvmarg value="-Xms32m"/>
<jvmarg value="-Xmx32m"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.Name" value="server2"/>
<sysproperty key="bea.home" value="${BEA_HOME}"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.username" value="system"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.password" value="weblogic"/>
<sysproperty key="weblogic.management.server"
value="t3://127.0.0.1:7001"/>
<sysproperty key="java.security.policy"
value="${WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.policy"/>
</java>
</parallel>
HTH, someone else might have a better idea :)
~Ryan Upton
"Geoff Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:40e4243e$1@mktnews1...
Hi,
I am using WLS 8.1 SP2 and the Ant that comes with it to start my
managed
server.
However, as documented the server VM shuts when the Ant script
finishes.
I
have
tried adding fork="true" to my <wlserver> task but this still doesnot
work. I
have resorted to using an <exec> task and a shell script but this doesnot
seem
as nice.
Can anyone offer some advice?
Regards
Geoff