Automatically restarting server processes

There are several server processes related to WebSphere Application Server products that the operating system can monitor and automatically restart when the server processes stop abnormally.

Before you begin

The Installation wizard grants you the user rights if your user ID is part of the administrator group.

About this task

You can use this function to automatically restart Express servers. You can restart the server1 process, for example.

Procedure

  1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Application servers. server_name > Process Start the administrative console. In the topology tree, expand Servers and click Application Servers. Click the name of the application server that you want to start automatically. Click Process Definition. Click Monitoring Policy. Change the Node Restart state to RUNNING. Click Apply. Save the configuration.
  2. Select the application server that you want to automatically restart and then, under Server Infrastructure , click Java and Process Management > Monitoring Policy.
  3. Select Automatic restart.
  4. Click Apply and then click Save to save the change directly to the master configuration.

Results

Processes started by a startServercommand are not running as monitored processes, regardless of how they are configured.

For example, you can configure a server1 process as a monitored process. However, if you start the server1 process using the startServer command, the operating system does not monitor or restart the server1 process because the operating system did not originally start the process as a monitored process.

What to do next

After the process is set up, the operating system can monitor each server process and restart the process if it stops.

Return to the Defining application server processes administrative console page to continue.




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