Server collection

Learn how to use the administrative console to view information about the application servers, generic servers, Java message service (JMS) servers, and web servers that are defined for your system.

You can use these respective administrative console pages to perform the following tasks for the listed servers:

• Select one or more of the listed servers, and then click Start to start those servers.
• Select one or more of the listed servers, and then click one of the following options to stop those servers:

  STOP

  When you click this option, the normal server quiesce process is followed. This process allows in-flight requests to complete before the entire server process shuts down. The time limit for the normal server quiesce process is governed by the com.ibm.ejs.sm.server.quiesceTimeout Java virtual machine (JVM) custom property, which defaults to 180 seconds.

  Restart

  The restart option applies to WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS®.

  When you click this option, the restart MBean is issued to the node agent of a server. This MBean stops the server and after the server is stopped, the MBean restarts the server. Occasionally, a restart might fail if all the necessary resources are not yet released after the server is stopped.

  If problems occur with the restart, you can set the com.ibm.websphere.console.server.restart.delay custom property to allow a wait period between the issuing of the stop and the issuing of the start. For more information about the com.ibm.websphere.console.server.restart.delay custom property, see the Java™ virtual machine custom properties topic.

  Immediate Stop

  This option is only available for application servers.

  When you click this option, the selected server stops but the normal server quiesce process is not followed. This shutdown mode is faster than the normal server stop processing, but some application clients might receive exceptions if an in-flight request does not complete before the server process shuts down. If you use this option, the com.ibm.ejs.sm.server.quiesceTimeout JVM custom property employs a value of 0 seconds.

  Terminate

  Select Terminate only if the server does not respond when you click Stop or Immediate Stop, or when you issue the Stop or ImmediateStop commands. Because this option is analogous to an OS command-line kill -9 <pid> command, some application clients might receive exceptions. Therefore, always attempt an immediate stop first before you select Terminate.

• Click New to create a new server.
• Click Templates to create a new server template.
• Select one or more of the listed servers, and then click Delete those servers.

To view the Application servers page, in the administrative console page, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers. This page lists all of the application servers in the cell.

To view the web servers page, in the administrative console, click Servers > Server Types > Web servers. This page lists all of the web servers in your administrative domain. In addition to the previously mentioned actions, you can use this page to generate and propagate a web server plug-in configuration file.