Some WAS (Websphere application server) commads and tips

- Start a WAS server : Open cmd and navigate to profile bin directory
bin > startserver server1

- Stop a WAS server : Open cmd and navigate to profile bin directory
Security disabled
bin > stopserver server1
Security enabled
bin > stopserver server1 -username -password

- Check the server status : Open cmd and navigate to profile bin directory
bin > serverstatus server1

- To modify the java process definition (jvm arguments, initial heap size, maximum heap size) directly open the server.xml (%WAS Install Dir%\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\%cell name%\nodes\%node name%\servers\server1\server.xml) and make the changes. Keep in mind that admin console is the recommended way for making the changes, directly modifying the xml is just a quick way of doing things.

- In case you modify some file used by an installed application, you need to clean (delete) the WAS temporary directory and restart the server. Location of the temp directory %WAS Install Dir%\profiles\AppSrv01\temp.
Webshpere Application server caches all application files in this directory, hence for the changes to take effect this needs to be deleted so that the cache can be created again with updated files.

- To check which ports the Websphere application server is running : Open the file (%WAS Install Dir%\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\%cell name%\nodes\%node name%\serverindex.xml). Look for WC_defaulthost, the corresponding port number (default 9080) is the port where WAS listens for web requests. Look for WC_adminhost, the corresponding port number is where the admin console listens. Information for all other ports used by WAS is also present in this file.

Note: These are for WAS v 6 and WAS v 6.1