Sun Microsystems 2005Q2 quick start Starting the Server, Starting the Domain Administration Server

A domain is a collection of configuration data, deployed applications, and machines with a designated administrator. The domain definition describes and can control the operation of several applications, stand-alone application server instances, and clusters, potentially spread over multiple machines. When the DAS is installed, a default domain called domain1 is always installed. You work with the default domain in this guide.

To complete most of the steps presented in this guide, you will use the Admin Console.

Starting the Server

This topic, the first of three basic topics, provides the following sections

■“Starting the Domain Administration Server” on page 7

■“Logging in to the Admin Console” on page 9

■“Examining the Log File” on page 11

Starting the Domain Administration Server

To start the Domain Administration Server, start the default domain, domain 1, using the following procedures.

Note – Because this guide instructs you to set an environment variable

AS_ADMIN_USER for administrative user name, it does not instruct you to supply a user name argument when the asadmin command is used. Without the environment variable, you supply this argument when you type the command. The general syntax is:

asadmin command_verb --userusername command_arguments

For example, if your user name is admin, the syntax for asadmin start-domainis:

asadmin start-domain --user admin domain1

▼To Start the Domain on Solaris and Linux

Steps 1. Add the install-dir/bin/directory to the PATH environment variable.

2.Set the AS_ADMIN_USER environment variable so that you do not need to type it for every command.

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