startServer command

The startServer command reads the configuration file for the specified application server and starts the server.

[Windows] If you are using the Windows platform and the you have the application server running as a Windows service, the startServer command will start the associated Windows service and it will be responsible for starting the application server.

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For more information about where to run this command, see the Using command line tools article.

Syntax

The command syntax is as follows:
startServer <server> [options]
where server is the name of the application server to start.

This argument is required.

Parameters

The following options are available for the startServer command:

-?
Prints a usage statement.
-help
Prints a usage statement.
-logfile <fileName>
Specifies the location of the log file to which trace information is written. By default, the log file is named startServer.log and is created in your logs directory.
-nowait
Tells the startServer command not to wait for successful initialization of the launched server process.
-profileName
Defines the profile of the Application Server process in a multi-profile installation. The -profileName option is not required for running in a single profile environment. The default for this option is the default profile.
-quiet
Suppresses the progress information that the startServer command prints in normal mode.
-replacelog
Replaces the log file instead of appending to the current log.
-recovery
Specifies that the server will start in recovery mode, perform a transactional recovery, and shut down. The server will not accept any new transactions while it is in recovery mode. When you start the server again, resources that were unavailable due to questionable transactions will be available.

Use this option if a server fails and you do not want to accept new transactions during the recovery process.

-statusport <portNumber>
An optional parameter that allows an administrator to set the port number for server status callback. The tool opens this port and waits for status callback from the server indicating that the server has started. If the parameter is not set, an unused port is automatically allocated.
-script [<script fileName>] -background
Generates a launch script with the startServer command instead of launching the server process directly. The launch script name is an optional argument. If you do not supply the launch script name, the default script file name is start_<server> based on the <server> name passed as the first argument to the startServer command. The -background parameter is an optional parameter that specifies that the generated script will run in the background when you execute it.
Note: The startserver.sh script launches a new process from the app_server_root directory to initialize the application server. The start_server1.sh script launches the application server from the directory in which the script is located. Because of this, the directory for the process launched using the startserver.sh script is the app_server_root directory and the directory for the process launched using the start_server1.sh script is the app_server_root/bin directory. Any system properties that are dependant on the process directory such as user.dir, might be different for processes launched using the startserver.sh and start_server1.sh scripts.
-trace
Generates trace information to the log file for debugging purposes.
-timeout <seconds>
Specifies the waiting time before server initialization times out and returns an error.

Usage scenario

The following examples demonstrate correct syntax:
startServer server1

startServer server1 -script (produces the start_server1.sh or .bat files)

startServer server1 -trace (produces the startserver.log file)



Related tasks
Using command line tools
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