Running Websphere Liberty as a windows service

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Question

I know that full Websphere has a utility that allowed you to create a windows service to start and stop a server. But i have not seen anything like that for liberty.

Do i use a 3rd party bridge like http://nssm.cc ? or is there another way.

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Solution 3

There is no builtin integration with Windows service, so you'll have to find a third party solution.

I have no experience with them, but you might also look at Java Service Launcher or Java Service Wrapper.

OTHER TIPS

Add WAS as a windows service (with startup type set to automatically) Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights (Run as Administrator), then use following command:

sc create WASLibertyV85 binPath="C:\IBM\WebSphere\Liberty\bin\server.bat start simpleServer" DisplayName="IBM WebSphere Liberty V8.5" start=auto

where "simpleServer" is the name of the server.

C:\Users\Administrator>sc create WASLibertyV85 binPath="C:\IBM\WebSphere\Liberty\bin\server.bat start simpleServer" DisplayName="IBM WebSphere
Liberty V8.5" start=auto

[SC] CreateService SUCCESS

Note: WAS Liberty server can be started and stopped using the following commands:

To start it: C:\IBM\WebSphere\Liberty\bin\server.bat start simpleServer To stop it: C:\IBM\WebSphere\Liberty\bin\server.bat stop simpleServer

ATTENTION:

When Service is started manually (sc start WASLibertyV85) or thru Service interface following problems "can" appear. This error does not impact the server to start.

C:\Users\Administrator>sc start WASLibertyV85

[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

In WebSphere Liberty in 17.0.0.1, there is a new set of options in the "server" command.

server  registerWinService  <server name>
server  unregisterWinService  <server name>
server  startWinService  <server name>
server  stopWinService  <server name>

The services can also start and stop via the Windows services control panel.

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