I looked a little more into the "Notified to shutdown" message. Turns out this message appears no matter how the server is halted. So if you stop the NT service, ctrl-c the server (or send it the INT signal), or call the shutDown method on the jboss.system:type=Server MBean, that message will display. So it looks like someone is shutting the server down. Obviously, it is someone that shouldn't be doing this and has not told you about it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3999700#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...