The following properties are available in Enterprise Server for setting the timeouts for starting and stopping the node agents: com.sun.aas.startAgentTimeout and com.sun.aas.startAgentTimeout.
These properties can be added to the as-install/lib/processLauncher.xml file. These properties are defined in milliseconds and they provide graceful starting and stopping of node agents when the --startinstances option is enabled.
If the node agent name is mynodegant1, find the <process name="mynodegant1"> entry in the /processLauncher.xml file and add the following lines:
<sysproperty key="com.sun.aas.startAgentTimeout" value="1500000"/>
<sysproperty key="com.sun.aas.stopAgentTimeout" value="240000"/>