Starting managed servers

Start the application server process in order to run applications on the managed server.

Before you begin

Before you start a managed server, ensure that the following conditions are true:

The deployment manager and node agent are running.
All resources required by applications deployed to the server are available.
All necessary subsystems are running.
The server is not currently running.

About this task

If you are using clusters, the Initial State property of the Application Server subcomponent (Servers > Application servers > server_name > Administration > Server Components > Application Server) is not intended to be used to control the state of individual servers in the cluster at the time the cluster is started. It is intended only as a way to control the state of the Application Server subcomponent of a server. It is best to start and stop the individual members of a cluster using the Server options of the administrative console or command line commands (startServer and stopServer).

Important: If you are restarting a server after a failure and you want the recovery functions to finish before new work is started, do not use this procedure. Instead, restart the server in recovery mode using the startServer command with the -recovery option.

To start a managed server with the administrative console on the deployment manager, perform the following steps.

Procedure

Click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers.
Select the server from the Application servers collection page.
Click Start.

What to do next

After you start the server you can start and manage the applications that run on the server. Note that it can take some time for all processes to discover a newly started server.