title: How to "start a node agent" in Websphere?
body: <p>How do you "start a node agent" in Websphere ?
  The error message is:
  "Server cannot be started because the node agent for server x_server on node wasdev1Node01 is not active."
  (I am on the dev server.)</p>
  
  <p>Also, the app logon procedure errored because of "Exception occurred while the JNDI NamingManager was processing a javax.naming.Reference object. ". While trying to start the JINDY I got the node server message.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to start the application server:</p>
  
  <p>"Server cannot be started because the node agent for server wasdev1 on node wasdev1Node01 is not active."</p>
  
  <p>Starting the Node Agent from the console:
  "The node agent on node wasdev1Node01 must be started to perform the restart operation. Node agents in stopped state can not be started from the console." </p>
  
  <p>You would need to start the node agent from command line as below.</p>
  
  <p>WAS_HOME/profiles/YOUR_PROFILE_NAME/bin/startNode.cmd (I do not have this command.)</p>