How to avoid automatic start of application after deployment?

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have to deploy an application that should be placed in stopped mode after deployment. The Deploy Service within Visual Administrator allows to deploy an ear file without automatically starting the application afterwards (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/53/2d343e32ff1033e10000000a114084/frameset.htm)

But the deploy service does not enter any information about the application into the SDM repository.

So how can I avoid the automatic startup of an application after deployment with SDM?

I tried to enter the name of the application to the property Initially_Not_Started_Apps of the Deploy Service before starting the deployment. Though this suppresses the automatic startup of the application after restart of the server node it does not help with the deployment.

Thanks,

Alexander

[Vlado · Accepted solution]

You have to specify the application start-up mode as <i>manual</i>. More inforamtion: [Specifying the Application Startup Mode|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/94/0a5b422f786255e10000000a155106/frameset.htm]

HTH!

\-- Vladimir

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Vladimir,

thanks for this hint.

My understanding is, that this startup mode has to be defined during development by editing the application-j2ee-engine.xml file.

I am looking for a purely administrative way to avoid the startup for two reasons:

1. I am not the developer but just deploying the ear file.

2. The idea is, that a new application should run only on a subset of all available server nodes in the J2EE cluster. So setting the Startup Mode to manual in general is unfortunately not the preferred solution. Basically we want to avoid the startup on some server nodes only.

BR,

Alexander