Using the WebLogic Server Console

This chapter introduces the WebLogic Server Administration Console, and explains how to start and stop the WebLogic Server.

Using the Administration Console to Manage AquaLogic Data Services Platform-enabled Applications

When deployed on a AquaLogic Data Services Platform provisioned domain, AquaLogic Data Services Platform-enabled applications become managed resources known to the WLS JMX management framework. This means that you can manage many of the runtime properties of a deployed AquaLogic Data Services Platform application using the WebLogic Administration Console.

Before you can configure or manage a AquaLogic Data Services Platform application, you must start the WebLogic Server on which it is deployed. When you run the startWebLogic.cmd (Windows) or startWebLogic.sh (UNIX) command for a domain, WebLogic Server is started, and the AquaLogic Data Services Platform applications and resources specified in the configuration file for the domain are automatically deployed on the server.

Starting the WebLogic Server

The instructions in this section describe how to start WebLogic Server (WLS) in a standalone WebLogic domain.

At the command prompt, navigate to the domain directory.

The domain directory is BEA_HOME/user_projects/domain_name. An example could be c:\bea\user_projects\mydomain.

Run the server startup script: startWebLogic.cmd (Windows) or startWebLogic.sh (UNIX).

The startup script displays a series of messages, finally displaying a message similar to the following:

<Dec 8, 2004 3:50:42 PM PDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <000360> <Server started in RUNNING mode>

Launching the Administration Console

The Administration Console is the web-based management interface for a WebLogic domain.

Start the WebLogic Server in the WebLogic domain in which AquaLogic Data Services Platform is deployed.

For more information, see Starting the WebLogic Server.

Using a web browser, open the following URL:

http://hostname:port/console

Where

hostname is the machine name or IP address of the host server
port is the address of the port on which the host server is listening for requests (7001 by default)

For example, to start the Administration Console for a local instance of WebLogic Server (running on your own machine), type the following URL in a Web browser address field:


http://localhost:7001/console/

If you started the Administration Server using Secure Socket Layer (SSL), you must add s after http, as follows:

https://hostname:port/console

When the login page appears, enter the user name and password you used to start the Administration Server.

If you have your browser configured to send HTTP requests to a proxy server, then you may need to configure your browser so that it does not send Administration Server HTTP requests to the proxy. When the Administration Server is on the same machine as the browser, ensure that requests sent to localhost or 127.0.0.1 are not sent to the proxy.

Exploring the Administration Console

The WebLogic Administration Console uses the following panes to enable you to navigate and display information about entities in a WebLogic domain:

When you start WebLogic Administration Console, the general administration page is shown in the Content pane, as illustrated in . You can use the topic links on the home page initially to navigate to top level resource nodes, or use the Navigation pane which contains a hierarchical tree — a domain tree — for navigating to tables of data, configuration pages and monitoring pages, or accessing logs.

Selecting an item in the domain tree enables you to display a table of data for resources of a particular type (such as WebLogic Servers) or configuration and monitoring pages for a selected resource.

You can expand and collapse nodes in the tree by clicking the + and - signs next to the nodes as follows:

A plus sign is (+) next to a node indicates that the node contains subnodes; it is expandable. To expand a collapsed container node, click on the + beside it. Its next level subnodes appears.
A minus sign (-) next to a node indicates that the node is a container that is fully expanded. To collapse an expanded container node, click on the - beside it.
A node with neither - or + beside is either an empty folder with no resources as yet or a fixed resource with no subnodes. As you add resources to folders, these will become expandable containers.

To manage AquaLogic Data Services Platform, you will need to access and use console pages for standard WebLogic Server resources as well as console pages specific to AquaLogic Data Services Platform resources.

Finding the AquaLogic Data Services Platform Application Node

AquaLogic Data Services Platform applications appear under the Deployment

Applications node of the domain in the Navigation pane of the WebLogic Administration Console. Figure 2-2 illustrates deployed applications in the domain.

Stopping the WebLogic Server

You can stop a WebLogic Server running a AquaLogic Data Services Platform application from the WebLogic Administration Console.

Start the Administration Console in a web browser by opening the following URL:

http://<HostName>:<Port>/console

For example, to start the Administration Console for a local instance of WebLogic Server (running on your own machine), type the following URL in a web browser address field:


http://localhost:7001/console/

Expand the Servers node under the domain in which the AquaLogic Data Services Platform application runs, and click the name of the server that you want to stop.
Click the Control tab.

The Start/Stop page appears, as illustrated in Figure 2-3.

Figure 2-3 Graceful Shutdown of a Server

Graceful Shutdown of a Server

Click the Graceful shutdown of this server link.
Click Yes to confirm.

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