Managing WebLogic Domains and Administration Servers

This section contains procedures for managing WebLogic Domains and Administration Servers.

How to Remove a WebLogic Domain and Administration Server

By removing a WebLogic domain through the provisioning system, you automatically perform the following tasks.

• Uninstall the WebLogic AdminServer component and virtual host.

  This task removes the Administration Server. If you select the markOnly option, only AdminServer virtual host is removed.

• Uninstall all Managed Servers components and virtual hosts that belonged in the domain.

  This action also removes the Managed Server within the WebLogic environment unless you select the markOnly option.

• Uninstall all cluster components and virtual hosts that belonged in the domain.

  This action also removes clusters within the WebLogic environment unless you select the markOnly option.

• Remove application components, license configurations, and applications.

The WebLogic virtual hosts cannot contain components that do not belong to the plug-in. To successfully remove the WebLogic domain, all components that do not belong to the plug-in must be removed before running the domain uninstall plan.

Before You Begin

To remove a WebLogic domain, you must belong to a user group that has the Run Component Procedures permission on the folder that contains the component. You must also have the Allow on Host Set permission for the host set on which you plan to deploy the component.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section in the browser interface, click WebLogic 8.

2. Click the Domain Management: Remove link.

   The plan's Details page displays.

3. Click Run.

   The plan's Run page displays.

4. Select the target host.

   Target the virtual host that was created when you installed the WebLogic software. See How to Install the WebLogic Software procedure.

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   The target host must be a member of the com.sun.weblogic#InstallHS host set.

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5. Type the name of the WebLogic domain, in the WebLogic Domain Name field.

6. If you want to remove the WebLogic domain, Administration Server, clusters, and Managed Server from the provisioning system and plan to keep the domain running in the WebLogic environment, select the markOnly option.

7. Click Run Plan (Includes Preflight).

How to Start a WebLogic Domain or Administration Server

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section in the browser interface, click WebLogic 8.

2. Click the Domain Management: Start link.

   The component Details page displays.

3. In the Component Procedures list, select the row containing the StartAdminServer procedure and click Run.

   The plan's Run page displays.

4. Select the Admin Server that you need to start.

   Managed Servers follow the format host (install-path), where host represents the name of the physical host and domain name and install-path represents the name of the . The Admin server name displays as server_wls_managedServerName, for example, server_weblogic (admin_wls)

5. Click Run Selected Installations.

   The plan's Run page displays.

6. Set the Plan Variables.

   1. (Optional) To override the standard memory arguments passed to Java, type the name in the VmArgs field.

      The format used for the vmArgs field is —virtualMachineName. For example, -Xms32m -Xmx200m.

   2. To specify how long the provisioning system waits before verifying that the server started, type the number of seconds in the Seconds to Wait Before Failing Verify Step field.

7. Click Run Plan (Includes Preflight).