4.6.16 Starting Application Server

To start Application Server, run the start-servers subcommand of the asadmin utility command.

Prerequisites

The domain administration server (DAS) is running.
Application Server has been set up.

Intended users

System engineers

Procedure

To start Application Server at once, run the start-servers subcommand of the asadmin utility command.
```
asadmin start-servers
```
When this command is run, the result is displayed as follows:
```
Command start-servers executed successfully.
```
To display a list of performance tracers, run the list-prfs subcommand of the asadmin utility command.
```
asadmin list-prfs
```
When this command is run, the result is displayed as follows. Ensure that the statuses of the performance tracers are running.
```
performance_tracer_name running
Command list-prfs executed successfully.
```
To display a list of server instances, run the list-instances subcommand of the asadmin utility command with the --long option specified.
```
asadmin list-instances --long=true
```
When this command is run, the result is displayed as follows. Ensure that the statuses of the server instances are running.
```
server_instance_name host_name port_number process_ID cluster_name running
Command list-instances executed successfully.
```
- cluster_name is displayed only for cluster configurations that contain multiple Java EE servers.
To display a list of web servers, run the list-webservers subcommand of the asadmin utility command.
```
asadmin list-webservers
```
When this command is run, the result is displayed as follows. Ensure that the statuses of the web servers are running.
```
web_server_name   running
Command list-webservers executed successfully.
```