{"id":4724,"date":"2015-05-07T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:44:26","slug":"creating-a-windows-service-for-the-node-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=4724","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Windows service for the node agent"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a network deployment configuration, you can create the node agent as a Windows service to make WebSphere\u00ae Application Server nodes easier to start and manage.<\/div>\n
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About this task<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Create the node agent as a Windows service so that the node agent starts automatically when the server is rebooted. An activated node agent communicates with the cell Deployment Manager to manage the set of servers on the node.<\/div>\n
If you do not create the node agent as a service, you must run the\u00a0startNode<\/span>\u00a0command manually. For example:\u00a0<was_home><\/span>\/profiles\/<profile_name>\/startNode.bat<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Procedure<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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  1. Open a command prompt window.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Change the directory to\u00a0<was_home><\/span>\\bin<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>For example: type\u00a0cd c:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere\\AppServer\\bin<\/kbd><\/li>\n
  3. Type the following\u00a0WASService<\/span>\u00a0command with the following parameters (case-sensitive, without the line breaks):<\/span>\n
    WASService -add<\/span> <profile_name>_nodeagent -serverName<\/span> nodeagent -profilePath<\/span> \r\n\"<was_home><\/span>\\profiles\\<profile_name>\" -wasHome<\/span> \r\n\"<was_home><\/span>\" -logRoot<\/span> \r\n\"<was_home><\/span>\\profiles\\<profile_name>\\logs\\nodeagent\" -logFile\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\"<was_home><\/span>\\profiles\\<profile_name>\\logs\\nodeagent\\startServer.log\" \r\n-restart<\/span> true\r\n-startType<\/span> automatic<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Where<\/div>\n
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    <was_home><\/span><\/dt>\n
    Specifies the directory where WebSphere Application Server is installed. For example:\u00a0C:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere\\AppServer<\/span><\/dd>\n
    <profile_name><\/span><\/dt>\n
    Specifies the name of the custom node profile in Windows service. For example:\u00a0Custom01<\/kbd>.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
    Example (with sample values)<\/p>\n
    WASService\u00a0-add<\/span>\u00a0Custom01_nodeagent\u00a0-serverName<\/span>\u00a0nodeagent\u00a0-profilePath<\/span>\u00a0\"c:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere\\AppServer\\profiles\\Custom01\"\u00a0-wasHome<\/span>\"c:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere\\AppServer\"\u00a0-logRoot<\/span>\u00a0\"C:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere\\AppServer\\profiles\\Custom01\\logs\\nodeagent\"\u00a0-logFile<\/span>\"C:\\Program Files\\IBM\\WebSphere\\AppServer\\profiles\\Custom01\\logs\\nodeagent\\startServer.log\"\u00a0-restart<\/span>\u00a0true\u00a0-startType<\/span>\u00a0automatic<\/kbd><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  4. Press\u00a0Enter<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0For example: The last line of the screen is displayed.\n
    IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 - Custom01_nodeagent service successfully \r\nadded.<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Close the command prompt.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Verify that the service is added to Windows services.<\/span>\n
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    1. Click\u00a0Start<\/span>\u00a0>\u00a0Run<\/span><\/span>. Type\u00a0services.msc<\/kbd>.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Verify that the node agent service is displayed. For example:IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 – Custom01_nodeagent<\/samp>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Optional:\u00a0If you have additional nodes, repeat this task for other nodes in your cluster. For example:\u00a0Custom02<\/var>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Results<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
      You added the node agent service to the list of Windows services.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      In a network deployment configuration, you can create the node agent as a Windows service to make WebSphere\u00ae Application Server nodes easier to start and manage. About this task Create the node agent as a Windows service so that the node agent starts automatically when the server is rebooted. An activated node agent communicates with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}