Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Setting Up the Managed Server as a Windows Service

The example in the previous section shows how to set up the Admin Server as a Windows service. You can set up a Windows service for all your Managed Servers as well. However, since you want your Managed Servers to start up after the Admin Server (so they can contact the Admin Server to retrieve their configuration data), you must add the following arguments to the line that invokes the beasvc utility in the installSvc.cmd script (:”%WL_HOME%\server\bin\beasvc”...):

-depend: "beasvc medrec_MedRecServer"
-delay: "1600"

The argument -depend refers to the Admin Server that will start before the Managed Server. The -delay argument specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) the Admin Server ...