WebLogic Admin Tricks & Tips

I am on a 'THINKING CHAIR' again, thinking to find the fine chopped shell script for displaying process id on the opposite to it the WebLogic(java process) instance name. This is the regular need for any WebLogic Administrator. 1. Some times the Thread counts monitoring cannot help to know the status of the Server instance then need to look for the instance is alive or not. That is the java process exist for that particular instance. 2. You may get Stuck Thread alert for any machine through your monitoring tools (HP OVO, Introscope or some other). Then you need to get the thread dump for the stuck thread found WebLogic instance. 3. You may want to kill an instance for any abnormal reasons What is 'ps' command does? The 'ps' command gives us information about processes status on Solaris or Linux or any other UNIX flavor.  There are different varieties of 'ps' command paths i) /usr/bin/ps ii) /usr/ucb/ps If you type “ps” at the prompt, and you...

Hey dear WLA most of us come from Development environment to production environments. Hope the scienario thatI am going to discuss here is a common to everyone, who is working on development environment. Sometime or other you might felt I should have a handy script that could takes input as a WebLogic instance port which usually get from the applicaiton URL. The WebLogic port and list all the Process IDs which are associated with it on UNIX(here I got solution for Solaris) environment. Recently I found a Sun blog which is clearly discussed similar issue. I am re-compiling the same with customizing to our WebLogic Listen Port, WebLogic Server runs with a Java generated child Process ID. 'lsof' is the command you can execute and get this solved but most of the times it is a Sun third party downloads, that is not allowed in many Banking, Financial and Insurance Service organizations. And one more reason is small companies doesn't efford for third party tools. Then, Your cho...