Starting and stopping Admin Server

WebLogic Server provides several ways to start and stop server instances. The method that you choose depends on whether you prefer using the Administration Console or a command-line interface, and on whether you are using Node Manager to manage a server’s life cycle.

No matter how you start a server, the end result passes a set of configuration options to initialize a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Version Requirement:

     The Administration Server and all Managed Servers in a domain must be the same WebLogic Server version. The Administration Server must be either at the same service-pack level or at a later service-pack level than the Managed Servers. For example, if the Managed Servers are at version 8.1, then the Administration Server can be either version 8.1, 8.1 SP1 or higher. However, if the Managed Servers are at SP1, then the Administration Server must be at SP1 or higher.

Starting and Stopping an Administration Server:

There are five different ways to start an Administration server.

                         With a Startup Script
                         From the windows Start Menu
                         With the java weblogic.server command
                         Using WLST and Node Manager
                         Using WLST without Node Manager

With Startup Script:
Navigate to the following location
BEA_HOME\user_projects\domains\SampleDomain\bin

Click on the startWebLogic .cmd to start the Admin Server of SampleDomain

In the command prompt you can see that the server is in running mode.

Stopping Admin server

        Navigate to the following location

BEA_HOME\user_projects\domains\SampleDomain\bin

Click on stopWebLogic.cmd

Administration Console:

       Graphical interface to configure, manage, monitor a domain

       One Administration Console for each domain

       The Administration server in the domain hosts the Admin console application

       

       Open the Admin Console with the following URL:

               http://localhost:port/console

              Typically in Dev: http://localhost:7001/console

     

       Sample domains use weblogic/weblogic as the user name and password

  

   In WLS 10.3, the Admin Console application deploys lazily -on first use

Open the browser (Internet Explorer or firefox or chrome or some other) and type

http://localhost:7001/console

*** Make sure that the Admin Server is running.

Enter the username and password that you have created while creating the domain.

The Administration console will look like below figure.