WildFly Cookbook

Checking the WildFly version

In this recipe, you will learn to check the version of WildFly that you are running by invoking a command to the CLI.

Getting ready

Remember I'm running WildFly remotely, bound to 192.168.59.103 as IP. WildFly is already up and running.

How to do it…

On your local PC, open a new terminal window and execute the following commands:

$ cd $WILDFLY_HOME
$ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --controller=192.168.59.103:9990 --user=wildfly --password=cookbook.2015 --command=":read-attribute(name=product-version)"
{
    "outcome" => "success",
    "result" => "9.0.0.Beta2"
}

Obviously, you can extract just the information you need by using the awk command in the output (you can use whichever tool you are comfortable with), as follows:

$ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh ...