Hi,

       I am trying to start a weblogic Managed server with ant tasks and run it as a service.But I could not do it as a service.

 If I use
<target name="start-server">
<wlserver dir="${Domain_Home}/config" host="${SAG_WLS_SERVER_URL}"
port="${SAG_WLS_SERVER_PORT}" action="start" adminserverurl="admin_server_url" />
</target> the server is starting in the command prompt where I am running this command.

      So could anyone please help me in starting the server as a service.

Thanks in advance,
Surendra

Make sure that the nodemanager is up and running. Only when the nodemanager is running can u issue start and stop commands to it. It is the nodemanager that starts the managed servers on the appropriate machine the server is hosted on. Here is what I did to get it to work. Note that this ant script ends immediately and the actual servers start up on the target machine.

    <target name="StartManagedServer" description="Starts a managed server">
<!--Need to invoke lookupNodeManagerRuntime before we can look up the runtime mbean -->
<java classname="weblogic.Admin" failonerror="false" fork="true">
  <arg line="-url ${adminURL}" />
                <arg line=" INVOKE" />
                <arg line="-mbean ${domainName}:Name=${MachineToRun},Type=Machine" />
<arg line="-method lookupNodeManagerRuntime" />
</java>

      <!-- Lookup the NodeManagerRuntimeMBean and give the command to start it. -->
<java classname="weblogic.Admin" failonerror="false" fork="true">
  <arg line="-url ${adminURL}" />
                <arg line=" INVOKE" />
                <arg line="-mbean ${domainName}:Location=${AdminServerName},Name=${MachineToRun},ServerRuntime=${AdminServerName},Type=NodeManagerRuntime" />
<arg line="-method start ${domainName}:Name=${ManagedServerName},Type=Server" />
</java>
    </target>