3/10/10

Installation Issues

Mr.X installed WAS like this on Win 08 server-

Started to launcher.
Selected WAS installer.
The installer had successfully passed OS verification.
Then selected Cell Topology. WAS 6.1 and above gives you an option to install a Cell. Meaning, installer installs Dmgr, installs an appserver, and federates that to dmgr.
Now, with all the needed inputs, the installer started to install binaries, installed successfully dmgr, appserver and even successfully federated everything.

Now, as this guy didnt configured security at the time of installation, wants to do it in the post installation.

He did like this -
After immediately installing, he ran the ivt (installation verification test).
Then went to admin console, kicked in security setup process.

WHAT IS HE MISSING?

The error what he got was - after configuring security, he wanted to bounce the services, bounce dmgr, bounce node agent, bounce server.
server was failing to start.
dmgr cannot recognize server.

What to do?ADMR0111E is one of the errors.

3/9/10

WASService command

Today one of colleague was trying to add a jvm to Windows Service.
This is the syntax for the command -
WASService.exe -add service_name
-serverName server_name
-profilePath server_profile_directory
[-wasHome
app_server_root]
[-configRoot configuration_repository_directory]
[-startArgs additional_start_arguments]
[-stopArgs additional_stop_arguments]
[-userid user_id -password password]
[-logFile service_log_file]
[-logRoot server_log_directory]
[-restart true | false]
[-startType automatic | manual | disabled]

This guy is fighting with some set of parameters. He is executing, command runs, he goes to the services, he finds that specific jvm in the services, but when he starts it, it simply says *started*, upon right clicking on the service, he sees only start option, remaining faded out.

So, whats the problem?
Go through the command options properly -
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/rins_wasservice.html
He was trying to add jvm to win services like this -
WASService.exe add blabla -logFile path/to/a/location/server.log -logRoot path/to/a/location/

yata yata yata

The problem is - one should pass SERVER LOG FILE as logFile and SERVER_LOG_LOCATION not to another location.
The WASService command looks for a file named server_name .pid to determine if the server is running.

So, if you want to add a jvm, by name server1 to Win services, you need to pass server1 log location.

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