start-instance

Starts a Payara Server instance.

Synopsis

asadmin [asadmin-options] start-instance [--help]
[--debug={false|true}] [--sync={normal|full|none}]
[--timeout timeout] instance-name

Description

The start-instance subcommand starts a Payara Server instance.This subcommand requires the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) remote protocol or secure shell (SSH) to be configured on the machine where the domain administration server (DAS) is running and on the machine where the instance resides.

DCOM or SSH is not required if the instance resides on a node of type CONFIG that represents the local host. A node of type CONFIG is not enabled for remote communication over DCOM or SSH.

You may run this subcommand from any machine that can contact the DAS.

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

This command is supported in remote mode only.

Options

These are not the same options available for the start-local-instance command.
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.

--debug

Specifies whether the instance is started with Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) debugging enabled.

Possible values are as follows:

true

The instance is started with JPDA debugging enabled and the port number for JPDA debugging is displayed.

false

The instance is started with JPDA debugging disabled (default).

--sync

The type of synchronization between the DAS and the instance’s file when the instance is started.

Possible values are as follows:

none

The DAS does not synchronize the instance’s files with any changes. This type of synchronization minimizes the time that is required to start the instance.

normal

The DAS synchronizes the instance with changes since the last synchronization as follows:

  • For the config directory, the DAS synchronizes the instance with all changes.

  • For the applications directory and docroot directory, only a change to a top-level subdirectory causes the DAS to synchronize all files under that subdirectory.

    If a file below a top level subdirectory is changed without a change to a file in the top level subdirectory, full synchronization is required. In normal operation, files below the top level subdirectories of these directories are not changed. If an application is deployed and undeployed, full synchronization is not necessary to update the instance with the change.

    This value is the default.

full

The DAS synchronizes the instance with all of the instance’s files, regardless of whether the files have changed since the last synchronization. This type of synchronization might delay the startup of the instance while the DAS updates all files in the instance’s directories.

Using full synchronization will cause the configuration to be deleted if the DAS cannot be reached.
--timeout

Specifies how long to take for the instance to start in seconds. If starting the instance takes longer than this amount then this command will fail (but the instance may still continue its startup process).

The default value is 120.

--terse

Specifies whether information on the result is output

The default value is false.

Operands

instance-name

The name of the Payara Server instance to start.

Examples

Example 1 Starting a Payara Server Instance

This example starts the Payara Server instance pmdsa1.

asadmin start-instance pmdsa1
Waiting for the server to start ..............................
Successfully started the instance: pmdsa1
instance Location: /export/payara6/glassfish/nodes/localhost/pmdsa1
Log File: /export/payara6/glassfish/nodes/localhost/pmdsa1/logs/server.log
Admin Port: 24848
Command start-local-instance executed successfully.
The instance, pmdsa1, was started on host localhost

Command start-instance executed successfully.

Example 2 Starting a Payara Server Instance With JPDA Debugging Enabled

This example starts the Payara Server instance ymlsa1 with JPDA debugging enabled.

asadmin start-instance --debug=true ymlsa1
Waiting for the server to start ...............................
Successfully started the instance: ymlsa1
instance Location: /export/payara6/glassfish/nodes/localhost/ymlsa1
Log File: /export/payara6/glassfish/nodes/localhost/ymlsa1/logs/server.log
Admin Port: 24849
Debugging is enabled. The debugging port is: 29010
Command start-local-instance executed successfully.
The instance, ymlsa1, was started on host localhost

Command start-instance executed successfully.

Exit Status

0

command executed successfully

1

error in executing the command

See Also