stop-instance

Stops a running Payara Server instance.

Synopsis

asadmin [asadmin-options] stop-instance [--help]
[--force={false|true}]
[--kill={false|true}]
instance-name

Description

The stop-instance subcommand stops a running Payara Server instance.

The subcommand can stop any Payara Server instance, regardless of how the instance was created. For example, this subcommand can stop an instance that was created by using the create-local-instance subcommand.

This command is supported in remote mode only.

Options

asadmin-options

Options for the asadmin utility. For information about these options, see the asadmin help page.

--help
-?

Displays the help text for the subcommand.

--force

Specifies whether the instance is forcibly stopped immediately.
Possible values are as follows:

true

The instance is forcibly stopped immediately (default).

false

The subcommand waits until all threads that are associated with the instance are exited before stopping the instance.

--kill

Specifies whether the instance is killed by using functionality of the operating system to terminate the instance process.
Possible values are as follows:

false

The instance is not killed. The subcommand uses functionality of the Java platform to terminate the instance process (default).

true

The instance is killed. The subcommand uses functionality of the operating system to terminate the instance process.

Operands

instance-name

This is the name of the Payara Server instance to stop.

Examples

This example stops the Payara Server instance yml-i-sj01.

Example 1 Stopping a Payara Server Instance

asadmin> stop-instance yml-i-sj01
The instance, yml-i-sj01, was stopped.
Command stop-instance executed successfully.

Exit Status