Restarts a comma-separated list of WebLogic servers or clusters. If admin server restart is desired, configure node manager (NODEMANAGER) related properties on Environment Instance. This operation supports rolling restart to make sure applications continue to be available to users during the restart operation.

If admin server and/or WSM servers are included in list of WebLogic servers or clusters, they are processed first. The order of restarts is

Admin server (if included in input)
WSM servers (WLS_WSM1, WLS_WSM2 etc. if included in input), then
the other clusters and servers.

This order is managed as various Fusion Middleware products are dependent on WSM servers.

If FDWLS_INP_USE_ROLLING_MODE is checked, some percentage of servers are restarted individually to make sure that application is available during restart. You can indicate FDWLS_INP_MAX_PERCENT_SIMULTANEOUS to control percentage of cluster members to restart simultaneously. This value will default to 20 percent. Cluster members for restart are selected using its machine name such that all servers on specific machine are eligible first for restart. Basically list or servers within cluster are sorted by machine name and percentage is applied on that list. Maximum percentage allowed for rolling mode is 50, if higher value is specified only 50 will be used. This approach is taken here as session for cluster will be replicated across physical nodes by default.

If FDWLS_INP_USE_ROLLING_MODE is not checked, the selected servers and clusters will all be stopped together and then started. The FDWLS_INP_MAX_PERCENT_SIMULTANEOUS input will NOT be used in this scenario.

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Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
Oracle Weblogic Home (WL_HOME)	`FDWLS_WEBLOGIC_HOME`	Yes	WebLogic Home Directory. (e.g. /u01/oracle/products/fmw/wlserver)
Weblogic Domain Name	`FDWLS_DOMAIN_NAME`	Yes	WebLogic Domain Name.
Weblogic Admin Listen Address	`FDWLS_ADMIN_LISTEN_ADDRESS`	Yes	The listener address of the WLS admin server. (e.g. localhost)
Weblogic Admin Listen Port	`FDWLS_ADMIN_LISTEN_PORT`	Yes	The port of the WLS admin server. (e.g. 7001)
Weblogic Admin SSL Connection	`FDWLS_ADMIN_USE_SSL`	No	Indicates whether the admin server is using SSL.
Weblogic Admin User	`FDWLS_ADMIN_USER`	Yes	The user name for the WLS admin server.
Weblogic Admin Password	`FDWLS_ADMIN_PASSWORD`	Yes	The password for `FDWLS_ADMIN_USER`.
Weblogic Start Server Timeout	`FDWLS_START_SERVER_TIMEOUT`	No	Time in milliseconds that the plugin operation will wait for server start. Plugin operation will return as soon as server starts, and if the server fails to start in timeout specified, plugin operation will fail.
Weblogic Stop Server Timeout	`FDWLS_STOP_SERVER_TIMEOUT`	No	Time in milliseconds that the plugin operation will wait for server stop. Plugin operation will return as soon as server stops, and if the server fails to stop in timeout specified, plugin operation will fail.
Weblogic Admin Domain Director	`FDWLS_ADMIN_DOMAIN_DIRECTORY`	No	WebLogic Domain Directory for AdminServer. Used when the admin server runs from a different domain folder than managed servers
Weblogic Domain Directory	`FDWLS_DOMAIN_DIRECTORY`	Yes	WebLogic Domain Directory for managed servers.
Weblogic Node Manager Port	`FDWLS_NODEMANAGER_PORT`	Yes	The port for the WLS Node Manager.
Weblogic Node Manager User	`FDWLS_NODEMANAGER_USER`	Yes	The user id for the WLS Node Manager.
Weblogic Node Manager Password	`FDWLS_NODEMANAGER_PASSWORD`	Yes	The password for `FDWLS_NODEMANAGER_USER`
Weblogic Node Manager Host	`FDWLS_NODEMANAGER_HOST`	Yes	Host for Node Manager connection.
Weblogic Node Manager Type	`FDWLS_NODEMANAGER_TYPE`	No	Node Manager Type. (e.g. ssl, plain, SSH, RSH)

Project Properties

Property Name	Property Name	Required	Description
Weblogic Server or Cluster Name(s)	`FDWLS_SERVER_OR_CLUSTER_NAMES`	No	WebLogic Server or Cluster name to start.

Inputs

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description
Weblogic Server or Cluster Name(s)	`FDWLS_INP_SERVER_OR_CLUSTER_NAMES`	No	WebLogic Server or Cluster name for start operation. If this is not supplied start operation will use `FDWLS_SERVER_OR_CLUSTER_NAMES`. Either `FDWLS_INP_SERVER_OR_CLUSTER_NAMES` or `FDWLS_SERVER_OR_CLUSTER_NAMES` must be supplied.
Rolling Mode	`FDWLS_INP_USE_ROLLING_MODE`	No	If checked, a maximum of 50% of each cluster will be recycled so that application delivery continues through the restart operation.
Max Percent Simultaneous	`FDWLS_INP_MAX_PERCENT_SIMULTANEOUS`	No	The maximum percentage of cluster members to restart at the same time. Defaults to 20%.

Outputs

Output Name	Required	Description

Artifacts

This operation doesn't consume or produce any artifacts.

Endpoint Selection

This operation will select all available endpoints associated to the environment instance which have a resource type of WLS Admin Server. Since the admin server only runs on one server, it is expected that for a given domain, there will only be one endpoint with a resource type set to WLS Admin Server.

Endpoint Execution

This operation will execute on the Admin Server endpoint selected using the WLS Admin Server resource type.