Starting and Stopping the Controller and Agents

Change to the directory where the Agent was created. The default directory is BEA_HOME\user_projects\agent1.
Open a command window and run .\bin\startAgent.sh (UNIX or Linux) or .\bin\startAgent.cmd (Windows).

Starting the Controller

Change to the directory where the Controller was created. The default directory is BEA_HOME\user_projects\controller.
Open a command window and run .\bin\startController.sh (UNIX or Linux) or .\bin\startController.cmd (Windows).

Accessing the WLOC Administration Console

The WLOC Administration Console starts when you start the Controller. You can access the console using a web browser.

For HTTP connection, the URL is: http://hostname:port/wloc-console
For HTTPS, the URL is: https://hostname:port/wloc-console

where

hostname is the host name or IP address

port is the port specified when the Controller was configured. The HTTP default is 9001; the HTTPS default is 9002.

The default user name and password for the WLOC Administration Console are WLOCBootUser and changeit.

Stopping an Agent

Select the Agents tab at the top of any console page to display a list of Agents. Select the Agent’s check box and click Shutdown.
Right-click the name of the Agent in the Inventory pane and select Shutdown Agent from the context menu.

As an alternative to shutting down an Agent, you can disconnect it. The Controller cannot deploy services to a disconnected Agent.

Stopping the Controller

Running the Controller and Agents as Windows Services

WLOC provides scripts that allow you to set up the Controller and Agent(s) to run as Windows services.

To set up a Controller or Agent to run as a Windows service, open a Command Prompt window and enter one of the following commands:

For the Controller, enter: BEA_HOME/user_projects/controller/bin/install_ControllerService.cmd
For an Agent, enter: BEA_HOME/user_projects/agent/bin/install_AgentService.cmd

When the script completes, the service will be configured to start automatically upon system boot and run using the Local System account.

You can revert to running the Controller or Agent from a command line by removing the Windows service. Use one of the following commands:

For the Controller, enter: BEA_HOME/user_projects/controller/bin/remove_ControllerService.cmd
For an Agent, enter: BEA_HOME/user_projects/agent/bin/remove_AgentService.cmd

Unexpected Shutdowns

The unexpected shutdown of a WLOC Agent does not impact the operation of the Controller. When the Agent is rebooted, it will attempt to reconnect to its managed resources. The Controller will poll for disconnected Agents periodically (once for every heartbeat-interval configured in loc-controller-config.xml) and re-establish the connection with the Agent when it becomes available.

If the Controller shuts down unexpectedly, the Agents to which it connects will continue to collect and locally store information from its managed resources. Once the Controller restarts and re-establishes connections with the Agents, they will then send that information to the Controller.

Configuration Guide