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Tasks Additional Documentation Attributes

Overview

The Server—>Configuration—>General tab defines general configuration attributes for an instance of WebLogic Server.

Tasks

Adding a Server to the Domain

Setting the Listen Port

Cloning a Server

Deleting a Server

Starting a Server

Starting a Server in the STANDBY State

Resuming a Server

Shutting Down a Server

Forcing Shutdown of a Server

Additional Documentation

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Installing WebLogic Server

Starting and Stopping WebLogic Servers

Using WebLogic Server Clusters

Attributes

Attribute Label | Description | Value Constraints
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Name | The name of the MBean. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: Name | Readable: yes Writable: yes
Machine | The machine on which this server is meant to run. If the server is already running, this will migrate the server to a different machine. If the machine is the same as the machine is the server is already running on, this is a no-op. Migration consists of taking down the machine using the stop method on the Server (#stop), and restarting the server on the new machine. If anything fails during migration, the appropriate exception will be thrown. Setting the machine to null means that the server should not be started. If it is already running, it is shutdown. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: Machine | Configurable: yes Readable: yes Writable: yes
Cluster | The cluster to which this server belongs. If set, the server will listen for cluster multicast events. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: Cluster | Configurable: yes Readable: yes Writable: yes
Listen Address | The IP address or DNS name this server uses to listen for incoming connections. Servers can be reached through the following URL: protocol://listen-address:listen-port Any network access point (NAP) that you configure for this server can override this listen address. By default, a server's listen address is undefined, which enables clients to reach the server through an IP address of the computer that hosts the server, a DNS name that resolves to the host, or the localhost string. The localhost string can be used only for requests from clients that running on the same computer as the server. If you want to limit the valid addresses for a server instance, specify one of the following: If you provide an IP address, clients can specify either the IP address or a DNS name that maps to the IP address. Clients that specify an IP address and attempt to connect through an SSL port must disable hostname verification. If you provide a DNS name, clients can specify either the DNS name or the corresponding IP address. Note: To resolve a DNS name to an IP address, Weblogic Server must be able to contact an appropriate DNS server or obtain the IP address mapping locally. Therefore, if you specify a DNS name for the listen address, you must either leave a port open long enough for the WebLogic Server instance to connect to a DNS server and cache its mapping or you must specify the IP address mapping in a local file. If you specify an IP address for ListenAddress and then a client request specifies a DNS name, WebLogic Server will attempt to resolve the DNS name, but if it cannot access DNS name mapping, the request will fail. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: ListenAddress | Configurable: yes Readable: yes Writable: yes
Listen Port Enabled | Get if the plain-text (non-SSL) port is enabled for the server. If this is set to false, the SSL listen port must be configured and enabled. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: ListenPortEnabled | Default: true Readable: yes Writable: yes
Listen Port | The plain-text (non-SSL) listen port for this server. If this is disabled the SSL port must be enabled. Additional ports can be configured using network channels (see NetworkChannelMBean). The cluster multicast port is configured at the cluster level. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: ListenPort | Minimum: 1 Maximum: 65534 Default: 7001 Configurable: yes Readable: yes Writable: yes
WeblogicPluginEnabled | Set this attribute to true if the server instance will receive requests from a proxy plug-in or HttpClusterServlet. When WeblogicPluginEnabled is true, a call to getRemoteAddr will return the address of the browser client from the proprietary WL-Proxy-Client-IP header, instead of the web server. If the server instance is a member of a cluster that will receive proxied requests, set WeblogicPluginEnabled for the cluster, on the Cluster -->Configuration-->General tab. WeblogicPluginEnabled can be configured in ClusterMBean or ServerMBean. If specified in both ClusterMBean and ServerMBean, the value in ClusterMBean value takes precedence. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: WeblogicPluginEnabled | Default: false Readable: yes Writable: yes
Startup Mode | Startup Mode for the server MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: StartupMode | Default: "RUNNING" Dynamic: yes Readable: yes Writable: yes
External DNSName | The external DNS name for the current server, which will be sent with HTTP session cookies and also with the dynamic server lists to HTTP proxies. ExternalDNSName is required for configurations in which a firewall is performing Network Address Translation, unless clients are accessing WebLogic Server using t3 and the default channel. For instance, ExternalDNSName is required for configurations in which a firewall is performing Network Address Translation, and clients are accessing WebLogic Server using HTTP via a proxy plug-in. Do not use an IP address for ExternalDNSName—it must be an actual domain name. MBean: weblogic.management. configuration.ServerMBean Attribute: ExternalDNSName | Default: null Configurable: yes Readable: yes Writable: yes
Client Cert Proxy Enabled | When set to true for a server instance, this attribute specifies that certs from clients of web applications hosted on the server instance are provided in the special WL-Proxy-Client-Cert header sent by a proxy plug-in or HttpClusterServlet. (ClientCertProxyEnabled can be defined at the cluster level, at the server level, and at the web application level, in web.xml.) This setting is useful if user authentication is performed on the proxy server—setting clientCertProxy to true causes the plug-in to pass on the certs to the cluster in the WL-Proxy-Client-Cert header. The header can be used by any client with direct access to WebLogic Server. WebLogic Server takes the certificate information from that header, trusting that is came from a secure source (the plug-in) and uses that information to authenticate the user. If you set clientCertProxy to true, use a connection filter to ensure that WebLogic Server accepts connections only from the machine on which the plug-in is running. See "Using Network Connection Filters" in Programming WebLogic Security. | Default: false Valid values: true false