Weblogic server status check - UNIX command

To automate weblogic managed server startup steps, need to check Admin server status first. Then start managed server. Check managed server status before continuing next steps like bringing up services deployed. Found to be useful to use weblogic.Admin option to achieve this easily,

Here is the step to check Admin server status

. setEnv.sh
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java weblogic.Admin -url $admin_server PING 1 >/dev/null 2>&1
admin_server_status=$?

Step to check Managed server status

ms_server_status=`$JAVA_HOME/bin/java weblogic.Admin -url $admin_server GETSTATE $app_name grep -c RUNNING `