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4 Configuring, Starting, and Stopping Node Manager
4-4 Configuring and Managing WebLogic Server
Reconfigure Startup Service
The WebLogic Server installation process installs Node Manager as a Windows
service, or a daemon on UNIX systems. By default, the service starts up Node Manager
to listen on localhost:5555.
When you configure Node Manager to accept commands from remote systems, you
must uninstall the default Node Manager service, and reinstall the Node Manager
service, specifying a non-localhost Listen Address.
The directory
WL_HOME\server\bin (where WL_HOME is the top-level directory for
the WebLogic Server installation) contains
uninstallNodeMgrSvc.cmd, a script for
uninstalling the Node Manager service, and
installNodeMgrSvc.cmd,ascriptfor
installing Node Manager as a service.
1. Delete the service using
uninstallNodeMgrSvc.cmd.
2. Edit installNodeMgrSvc.cmd to specify Node Manager’s Listen Address and
Listen Port.
Notes: If you identify Node Manager’s Listen Address by IP address (except for the
localhost address, 127.0.0.1), you must disable Host Name Verification on
remote Administration Servers, or other clients such as
weblogic.Admin,that
will access Node Manager.
Make the same edits to
uninstallNodeMgrSvc.cmd as you make to
installNodeMgrSvc.cmd, so that you can successfully uninstall the service
in the future, as desired.
3. Run
installNodeMgrSvc.cmd to re-install Node Manager as a service, listening
on the updated address and port.
Update nodemanager.properties
If Node Manager must accept commands from remote clients, and you will start Node
Manager from the command line, add the Node Manager’s Listen Address and Listen
Port to the
nodemanager.properties file. Update nodemanager.properties on
each system on which Node Manager will run. For more information on
nodemanager.properties,see“Node Manager Properties” on page 4-10.
To obtain your own digital certificate and private key and configure SSL for a
production environment, follow the instructions in “Configuring the SSL Protocol” in
Managing WebLogic Security.