Automating Oracle FMW services as Windows Services

Automating Weblogic Admin Server, WLS_FORMS(Forms Server), WLS_REPORTS(Reports server) startup with Windows Services

Let us agree, the cmd windows look ugly, dangerous and a user can close them down, thus bringing the entire servers down unintentionally. A windows service looks much favorable under such scenarios and wise people from Oracle do provide solutions to create windows services for

1. Weblogic Admin Server
2. WLS_FORMS (Forms Server)
3. WLS_REPORTS (Reports Server)

Creating Windows services for Admin Server and Forms server are pretty simple and straight forward business, while CMD command line length limitations will make Reports Server service creation a little difficult, don’t worry we have solution for it also.

A – Creating boot.properties

Pre-requisite(s)

Notepad++ (or any decent text editor other than Windows notepad)

Create a boot.properties file with the following lines

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username:<your weblogic username>

password:<your weblogic password>

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Save the script to “USERDOMAIN_HOME” folder, ie, 

Copy to: C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\servers\AdminServer\security

Copy to: C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\servers\WLS_FORMS\security

Copy to: C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\servers\WLS_REPORTS

 in our case From elevated command line.

B – Creating Windows Service for Weblogic Admin Server

Pre-requisite(s)

Notepad++ (or any decent text editor other than Windows notepad)

Create a .cmd file named “Install_AdminServer.cmd” with the following lines

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SETLOCAL

set DOMAIN_NAME=ClassicDomain

set USERDOMAIN_HOME=C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain

set SERVER_NAME=AdminServer

set WL_HOME=C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3

set PRODUCTION_MODE=true

cd %USERDOMAIN_HOME%

call %USERDOMAIN_HOME%\bin\setDomainEnv.cmd

rem *** call "C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"

call "%WL_HOME%\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"

ENDLOCAL

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Please note, you must provide the absolute domain name and physical directory names based on your installation preferences!

Save the script to “USERDOMAIN_HOME” folder, ie, “C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\servers\AdminServer\security” in our case

From elevated command line, execute the batch file, and the Windows service for Admin Server must be created, unless there were mismatches with the information supplied.

C – Creating Windows Service for WLS_FORMS(Forms Server)

Create a .cmd file “InstallWLS_FORMS.cmd” using Notepad++ with following lines

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SETLOCAL

set DOMAIN_NAME=ClassicDomain

set USERDOMAIN_HOME=C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain

set SERVER_NAME=WLS_FORMS

set WL_HOME=C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3

set PRODUCTION_MODE=true

set ADMIN_URL=http://localhost:7001

cd %USERDOMAIN_HOME%

call %USERDOMAIN_HOME%\bin\setDomainEnv.cmd

rem *** call "C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"

call "%WL_HOME%\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"

ENDLOCAL

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Save the script to “USERDOMAIN_HOME” folder, ie, “C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\servers\WLS_FORMS\security” in our case

From elevated command line, execute the batch file, and the Windows service for WLS_FORMS must be created, unless there were mismatches with the information supplied

D – Creating Windows Service for WLS_REPORTS(Reports Server)

Create a .cmd file “InstallWLS_REPORTS.cmd” using Notepad++ with following lines

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SETLOCAL

set DOMAIN_NAME=ClassicDomain

set USERDOMAIN_HOME=C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain

set SERVER_NAME=WLS_REPORTS

set WL_HOME=C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3

set PRODUCTION_MODE=true

set ADMIN_URL=http://localhost:7001

cd %USERDOMAIN_HOME%

call %USERDOMAIN_HOME%\bin\setDomainEnv.cmd

rem *** call "C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"

call "%WL_HOME%\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"

ENDLOCAL

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Unfortunately, you cannot just run the .cmd file and create a service for WLS_REPORTS like other services, as the java CLASSPATH for reports server has more than 3000 character length, which is beyond 32Bit command line architecture.

Hence you have to do a minor hack, as provided as a solution by Oracle.

Go to “C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\server\bin” folder (equivalent on your machine) and
make a backup for the file “InstallSvc.cmd”

If the report server is running, terminate it by using Ctrl+C within the open cmd window Wait until the server shutdown. Check the status through Admin Console.

Now restart the Report Server, using the menu interface

Mark and copy the CLASSPATH= output and paste it to a new text document. You have to spend few minutes to wrap up the text and make sure the entire text is wrapped into a single line (This is why we love Notepad++)

Add “set” in front of CLASSPATH= and your txt file content should look something like below and save the text file as “myClasspath.txt”

For Example:

Now open the “InstallSvc.cmd” using Notepad++ and locate the line “set CLASSPATH=%WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH%;%CLASSPATH%” and comment the same like

rem *** set CLASSPATH=%WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH%;%CLASSPATH%

Now locate the line “set CMDLINE” within the “InstallSvc.cmd” and change the line like following

For Example:

There are two instances of set CMDLINE, you must change both lines, only replacing the “-classpath \”%CLASSPATH%\” part with -classpath @d:\myClasspath.txt

After the above, from elevated command line, execute the batch file, and the Windows service for WLS_REPORTS must be created, unless there were mismatches with the information supplied

Change “Automatic” to “Manual” for better ease, at various situations. You may create a .cmd file for starting the services and another one for stopping them.

From our prospects, these services are just a facelift for the batch files, avoiding the immediate problems with accidental closure of cmd windows and thus causing serious issues to the instance. We came to this conclusion because, the service status are not updated incase if one of the services stopped by the Admin Server console at later stages, neither the service status update waits until the actual server starts to update  state of the service.

You can delete whole these service from command prompt, after stopping like following

>SC DELETE “service name”

We hope you will enjoy setting up Weblogic 10.3.6 and Oracle Forms and Reports 11g Release 2 on Windows following the instruction set provided above.

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