In order to verify your Websphere installation let’s start the application server. To start our application server, you need to use the startServer.sh command as follows:
${PROFILE_ROOT}/bin/startServer.sh server_name
For example in our WAS sample installation (C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer):
C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin>startServer.cmd server1
Once you run the script, you will see the following output: