Sending Asadmin Commands to Payara Micro from a Domain Administration Server

Asadmin commands can be sent from the Domain Administration Server (DAS) to Payara Micro instances that are running within the same data grid as the DAS.

How to Send Asadmin Commands To Payara Micro using the Admin Console

Sending an Asadmin command is performed through the Domain Data Grid. This Data Grid is powered by Hazelcast and is enabled by default. You can verify if it actived by looking under the server-config configuration under the Data Grid item.

Enable Hazelcast

All the members can be seen under the Data Grid entry of the Domain item on the left menu. At the bottom of the page, you will find a table filled with the Payara Micro instances:

Micro Instances on DAS

To send an administration command:

  1. Select the recipient nodes

  2. Enter the asadmin command in the textbox

  3. Press Send Asadmin Command

Send commands from DAS

Sending Asadmin Commands from the Command Line

To send administration commands using the command line there is a new asadmin command for the Domain Administration Server - send-asadmin-command. The asadmin command is entered using the --command option, which only accepts a single command as an input (including said commands own arguments).

As an example of sending a command from the command line:

asadmin send-asadmin-command --command deploy /home/user/application --contextRoot=/example