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Identifying Windows WebLogic application servers

If you are not using the Weblogic pattern, Discovery follows this process when it uses the Windows - Active Processes or Linux - Active Processes probes.

This process describes the use of probes, which are active on your instance if you upgrade. For new instances, Discovery uses the Weblogic pattern.

  1. The Windows - Active Processes probe or Linux - Active Processes detects a running process that matches one of the follow criteria:
    • The parameters of the process contain weblogic.Server.
    • The parameters of the process contain -Dweblogic.name.
  2. If there is a match on one of the criteria:
    • A record is created in the BEA Weblogic [cmdb_ci_app_server_weblogic] table. The record is populated with the server name and TCP port, which is gathered from the running process.
    • The Windows - Weblogic - Find config.xml probe or the Linux - Weblogic - Find config.xml probe triggers. The sensor of this probe populates additional information in the BEA Weblogic [cmdb_ci_app_server_weblogic] record and the Web Application [cmdb_ci_web_application] record if applicable.
  3. The Windows - Weblogic - Find config.xml probe or the Linux - Weblogic - Find config.xml probe attempts to find the related config.xml file for the server by:
    • Using the -Dweblogic.RootDirectory=<path> parameter defined in the running process.
    • [Windows] Searching for config.xml files under the –Dplatform.home=<path> parameter defined in the running process (not as efficient using the parameters of the process).
    • [Linux] Searching for the parent process that started the WebLogic server (only viable if the weblogic jvm was started via the startWeblogic.sh or related custom script and not the init process).
  4. If there are associated web applications found in the WebLogic config.xml file, the Windows – Weblogic find web.xml probe triggers for each application. This probe reads the WebLogic web.xml file for each web application and the sensor, and then populates additional information.

Parent Topic:WebLogic application server discovery