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Starting and Stopping ALES Components

This chapter details how to start and stop the Administration Server, Security Control Managers, and Security Service Modules on Windows and UNIX systems.

 

Starting and Stopping the Administration Server On Windows

The Administration Server is installed on Windows as a service application with a default startup type of manual. To configure ALES services for automatic startup, use the Windows Services applet.

Starting the Administration Server starts the following service, where name is the machine name:

Table 3-1 lists the command line commands and Start Menu options for managing Administration Server processes. To use these commands, open a command window, navigate to the installation directory, and enter the command.

Table 3-1 Windows Program Menu Options and Commands 
Menu Option
Command
Description
Start Server
WLESadmin start
Starts Administration Server processes when running under WebLogic.
 
WLESadmin console
Starts WebLogic-hosted Administration Server processes in separate console windows. When starting in console mode, a message like the following appears: 
08/25/04 18:21:11utc ERR
[3040]iomanager.cpp(95): *****
Opening ERR Stream *****
This is NOT an error message. It indicates a test to ensure that the server can write to an error log.
Stop Server
WLESadmin stop
Stops Administration Server processes. When running in console mode, you may also stop a process by closing the console window or pressing Ctrl+C.

 

Starting and Stopping the Administration Server on UNIX

The Administration Server is registered with the UNIX init subsystem. By default, it is not configured to start automatically. To configure it for automatic startup, the system administrator must link it into the correct init runlevel.

To start and stop Administration Server processes on UNIX, navigate to the install directory and enter the shell script command as listed in Table 3-2.

Table 3-2 UNIX Commands
Command
Description
WLESadmin.sh start
or
WLESadmin.sh console
Either command starts Administration Server processes as daemon processes.

Note: Either command provides the same results.
WLESadmin.sh stop
Stops Administration Server processes. A process can also be stopped by closing the console window or pressing Ctrl+C.

Administration Server Startup Option on Linux

To allow the Administration Server start up after a reboot on Linux, set it to start on runlevel3 (non-graphical runlevel) and runlevel5 (graphical runlevel). To do this, run the following command as root: 

chkconfig --level 35 WLESadmin on

The database configuration is available to these scripts on boot so long as configurations are located in the /etc/profile directory. If the configuration is not located in this directory, edit bin/WLESadmin.sh, setting the appropriate environment variables and paths before rebooting.

To check the Administration Server runlevel, run: 

chkconfig --list WLESadmin

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