Well, the process.destroy logic doesn't seem to work from what I've seen. So it's basically a useless line. This is why Dimitris suggested the use of the -H option to try to clean things up. Can you replace the process.destroy with the shutdown -H ? I think your suggestion about jboss.server.shutdown.fail makes sense. What about setting the value of this property to the name of the server config which fails? That way we can have a line which says: "The "tomcat-sso-cluster-01 server failed to stop" Even if we have multiple servers failing to stop, it is enough to know that one failed. I'm fine with you making these changes. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117413#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...