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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Dalton Iwazaki
Book Image

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook

By: Dalton Iwazaki

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring high availability for Administration Server


The Administration Server is a single WebLogic Server instance responsible for the configuration and management of the WebLogic domain. By default, the Administration Server runs on the machine that the domain was created.

Unlike WebLogic clustering, WebLogic Server does not provide out of the box high availability options for the Administration Server, if this machine fails.

Note

Thanks to the Managed Servers Independence Mode (MSI) Managed Servers will keep running even if the Administration Server is down.

Managed Servers can also be started by using only Node Manager and WLST or by using the start-up shell scripts without the need of the Administration Server.

This recipe will provide the steps to prepare the environment in case the machine that hosts the Administration Server fails.

Getting ready

By default, the Administration Server binds to all IP addresses of the machine, but sets the prod01 machine as its default hostname.

The first...