Start and stop applications with wsadmin

You can use wsadmin to start and stop applications in your application server.

To start an application with wsadmin, follow these steps:

On the CL command line, run the STRQSH (Start Qshell) command.
Run the cd command to change to the directory that contains the wsadmin tool:
```
cd /QIBM/ProdData/WebASE51/ASE/bin
```
Start wsadmin.
At the wsadmin prompt, run this command to identify the application manager MBean for the server where the application resides and assign it the appManager variable:
```
set appManager [$AdminControl queryNames type=ApplicationManager,*]
```
This command returns the application manager MBean.
Run this command to start the application:
```
$AdminControl invoke $appManager startApplication myApp
```
where myApp is the name of the application that you want to start.

To stop applications with wsadmin, follow these steps:

On the CL command line, run the STRQSH (Start Qshell) command.
Run the cd command to change to the directory that contains the wsadmin tool:
```
cd /QIBM/ProdData/WebASE51/ASE/bin
```
Start wsadmin.
At the wsadmin prompt, run this command to identify the application manager MBean for the server where the application resides, and assign it to the appManager variable:
```
set appManager [$AdminControl queryNames type=ApplicationManager,*]
```
This command returns the application manager MBean.
You can stop a single application or stop all of the applications that are running in your application server.
- To stop a single application, run this command:
```
$AdminControl invoke $appManager stopApplication myApp
```
  where myApp is the name of the application that you want to stop.
- To stop all of the running applications in your application server, follow these steps:
  1. Run this command to query the running applications in the application server and assign the result to the apps variable:
```
set apps [$AdminControl queryNames type=Application,*]
```
    This command returns a list of application MBeans.
  2. Run this command to stop all of the running applications:
```
foreach app $apps {set appName [$AdminControl getAttribute $app name];
 $AdminControl invoke $appManager stopApplication $appName}
```
    Note: This command has been wrapped for display purposes.