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stop-instance

stops a running GlassFish Server instance

Synopsis

stop-instance [--help] 
[--force={false|true}] [--kill={false|true}]
instance-name

Description

The stop-instance subcommand stops a running GlassFish Server instance.

The subcommand can stop any GlassFish Server instance, regardless of how the instance was created. For example, this subcommand can stop an instance that was created by using the create-local-instance(1) subcommand.

This command is supported in remote mode only.

Options

--help

-?

Displays the help text for the subcommand.

--force

Specifies whether the instance is forcibly stopped immediately.

Possible values are as follows:

true

The instance is forcibly stopped immediately (default).

false

The subcommand waits until all threads that are associated with the instance are exited before stopping the instance.

--kill

Specifies whether the instance is killed by using functionality of the operating system to terminate the instance process.

Possible values are as follows:

false

The instance is not killed. The subcommand uses functionality of the Java platform to terminate the instance process (default).

true

The instance is killed. The subcommand uses functionality of the operating system to terminate the instance process.

Operands

instance-name

This is the name of the GlassFish Server instance to stop.

Examples

This example stops the GlassFish Server instance yml-i-sj01.

Example 1   Stopping a GlassFish Server Instance

asadmin> stop-instance yml-i-sj01
The instance, yml-i-sj01, was stopped.

Command stop-instance executed successfully.

Exit Status

0

command executed successfully

1

error in executing the command

See Also

create-instance(1), create-local-instance(1), delete-instance(1), delete-local-instance(1), start-domain(1), start-instance(1), start-local-instance(1), stop-domain(1), stop-local-instance(1)

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