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How Dynamic Configuration Works
Administration Guide 4-5
1. Enter the following URL:
http://
host:port/console
where
host is the host name or IP address of the machine on which the
Administration Server is running and
port is the address of the port at which the
Administration Server is listening for requests (by default, 7001).
2. The system prompts you to enter a user ID and password. Enter your UserID and
password. The system performs an authentication and authorization check: it
verifies the user ID and password against the user database.
If you are authorized to work with the console, then the console is displayed in
the access mode that the system administrator originally assigned to you: either
ReadOnly or Read/Write
How Dynamic Configuration Works
WebLogic Server allows you to change the configuration attributes of domain
resources dynamically, that is, while servers are running. In most cases you do not need
to restart WebLogic Server for your changes to take effect. When an attribute is
reconfigured, the new value is immediately reflected in both the current run-time value
of the attribute and the persistent value stored in the XML configuration file.
There are exceptions, however. If, for example, you change a WebLogic Server’s
listen port, the new address will not be used until the next time you start the affected
server. In that case, if you modify the value, you are changing the persistent value
stored in the XML file and the current run-time configuration value for the attribute
may differ from that persistently stored value. The Administration Console indicates
if the persistent and runtime values for a configuration attribute are not the same using
an icon which changes to an alert
when the server needs to be restarted for changes to take effect.
The console does a validation check on each attribute that users change. The errors that
are supported are out-of-range errors and datatype mismatch errors. In both cases, an
error dialog box displays telling the user that an error has occurred.