Sun Microsystems 2005Q2 - Manual (Page 7)

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 --user username command_arguments
For example, if your user name is admin, the syntax for asadmin start-domain is:
asadmin start-domain --user admin domain1
▼ To Start the Domain on Solaris and Linux
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.
Steps
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