Start and stop a server from the command line

We can use the server tasks to start or stop a server.

The latest documentation about server commands for Liberty is available on the Open Liberty website. The wlp/bin directory contains a script called server to help with controlling the server process. The syntax of this script is as follows:

server action serverName [options]

For available values of [options], see Server command options.

Note: If a server is not specified on the command line, the action is performed against the default server instance, defaultServer, if it exists. Tip: Do not use the command line to start or stop a server that is managed by auto scaling with an enabled scaling policy.

• Start the server:
  server start serverName

  where serverName is the name of the server.

• Stop the server:
  server stop serverName

  where serverName is the name of the server.

  Note: Normal server stop includes a quiesce stage before the server is shutdown. The quiesce stage, a default period of 30 seconds, allows for services to perform pre-shutdown work, for example, stopping inbound listeners but allowing existing requests to complete. Applying the --force option to the stop command skips the quiesce stage. The --force option has no effect if server stop was already invoked. If we use the --force option, we might see unexpected exceptions in the messages.log file that occur after the server stop command was received by the server.

Example

server.bat start serverName

server.bat stop serverName

To start or stop a server using the server script on other systems:

server start serverName

server stop serverName