Interestingly, I saw this exception: -
The following validation errors were present with the command line arguments:
profileName: Action can not be executed while server is running
profileName: Action can not be executed while server is running
when I tried to delete a bunch of WebSphere profiles using the following command: -
/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/manageprofiles.sh -deleteAll
I went slightly mad trying to find / stop any Java processes running, using ps -elf and ps auxw, but to no avail.
Thankfully this dW post: -
came to my rescue.
In essence, IBM HTTP Server (IHS) was still running .....
Once I stopped it, I was able to happily delete the profiles :-)
When you think about it, that makes perfect sense, as IHS is, in my case, running on an unmanaged node within the WAS cell, so manageprofiles is spot on :-)