Weblogic - nodemanager.properties Crash Recovery / Auto restart (Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0)
Problem Summary
In the Dev environment, all WebLogic services—including Admin Console, Node Manager, and Managed Servers (MS1/MS2)—automatically restart after a cold reboot. However, in QA and Prod environments, only the Admin Console and Node Manager come back up automatically. MS1 and MS2 do not restart, requiring manual intervention (task kill/restart) to restore connectivity if services were not gracefully shut down before the reboot.
Implementation
To address this, the crash recovery option was enabled via nodemanager.properties script in the QA environment, which successfully restored all services after reboot. However, the same implementation failed in the Prod environment, and MS1/MS2 still require manual restarts.