Monitoring Datasources in Weblogic/SOA/OSB

Datasource monitoring is one of the key monitoring topics in weblogic based applications. We have been using simple WLST script to alert us when a datasource is not working properly. Most of the times, root cause will be a intermittent network/DB issue. To recover from the issue, we will reset/restart Continue Reading

Weblogic Admin server failing to start with error: Service weblogic.server.ServerLifeCycleService was started at level 9 but it has a run level of 10

We had an issue with shared storage server which is used to store weblogic admin server configuration. So, we restarted the admin server once the storage issue was resolved. But restart failed with below errors: It was not very clear what was causing issue from the above logs. So, started Continue Reading

Weblogic Admin Server startup failing with FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN

We shutdown our test weblogic admin server to apply recent security patches. Our colleague applied the path and tried to start Admin server. Server didn’t come-up and was failing with below error: A MultiException has 6 exceptions. They are: weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid. The user name or Continue Reading