Restarting WAS ND

Restarting WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Edition

Websphere Application Server Network Deployment edition contains more than one node to manage. Deployment manager is used to managing the nodes. 

To restart the WAS ND we need to follow the below sequence. The below shell scripts are used in Unix/Linux. For windows, we can use the .bat files.

Make sure that you login using the admin credentials. To run the shell scripts you need admin privileges.

• stop servers using WAS Console. 
• Login to WAS Console
• On the left menu click on servers link
• Select all the servers and click on the stop button
• stop node agents using stopNode.sh command
• Go to <WAS Profiles dir>/<node>/bin
• run the command ./stopNode.sh 
• stop DMGR using stopManager.sh
• Go to <WAS Profiles dir>/dmgr/bin
• run the command ./stopManager.sh
• start DMGR using startManager.sh
• Go to <WAS Profiles dir>/dmgr/bin
• run the command ./startManager.sh
• start node agents using startNode.sh
• Go to <WAS Profiles dir>/<node>/bin
• run the command ./startNode.sh
• start servers using WAS Console
• Login to WAS Console
• On the left menu click on servers link
• Select all the servers and click on the start button