Create a boot identity file
A boot identity file contains the user credentials for starting and stopping an instance of Oracle WebLogic Server. An administration server or managed server can refer to this file for user credentials instead of prompting at the command line to provide them.
Because the credentials are encrypted, using a boot identity file is more secure than storing plain text credentials in a startup or shutdown script. There can be a different boot identity file for each server in a domain.
For the Production Mode domain, you can create the boot identity file manually, as explained below.
Parent topic: Set up Oracle WebLogic Server domain 12c