BEA WebLogic Server™ Administration Kit

Remote Start

As we have seen, WebLogic can be started on a local machine in a variety of ways. However, in a multiserver environment it would quickly become cumbersome if you were forced to start and stop each server individually. WebLogic is designed to be administered from a central location—the Administration server. On a running cluster, the Administration server does its work by communicating with Managed server processes on the remote machines.

But what about situations where the Administration server is running, but the Managed servers are not? There are two problems to overcome. First, for obvious reasons, network operating systems have some very deep-seated reservations about starting and stopping programs based solely on instructions ...