Key WLST Command Groups

As I mentioned earlier, WLST offers a large number of commands to help perform various management and programming tasks. Here's a brief description of the key WLST command types. Note that you can execute some commands only in offline mode and others in online mode.

Life Cycle Commands

You can use the life cycle commands to manage the life cycle of both the Admin and the Managed Servers. WLST offers the start, startServer, suspend, resume, and migrate commands to control a server life cycle. Here are a couple of examples showing how to suspend and resume the Admin Server instance:

wls:/wl_server/serverConfig> suspend('examplesServer')

..Server examplesServer suspended successfully.

wls:/wl_server/serverConfig> resume('examplesServer') ...

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