The processes are actually started from the absolute path.

2021/08/27 14:10:11 VCS DBG_5 WebSphere:OFL-WAS-QP-Dmgr:online:Sys:RunWithEnvCmdWithOutputWithTimeOut:Now going to run complete command line [/bin/su wasadm -c '/bin/ps -wwo 'uid,pid,state,ppid,args' -p 11981']

2021/08/27 14:10:11 VCS DBG_5 WebSphere:OFL-WAS-QP-Dmgr:online:VCSagentFW:messageEngineLog:[ UID PID S PPID COMMAND

18608 11981 S 1 /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/bin/java -Dwas.launcher.server=loflfnasv01Cell01:loflfnasv01CellManager01:dmgr -Dwas.status.socket=33027 -Dosgi.install.area=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85 -Dosgi.configuration.area=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/servers/dmgr/configuration -Dosgi.framework.extensions=com.ibm.cds,com.ibm.ws.eclipse.adaptors -Xshareclasses:name=webspherev85_1.7.1_64_%g,nonFatal -Xscmx50M -Dcom.ibm.xtq.processor.overrideSecureProcessing=true -Xcheck:dump -Xbootclasspath/p:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/jre/lib/ibmorb.jar -classpath /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/properties:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/properties:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib/startup.jar:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib/bootstrap.jar:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib/lmproxy.jar:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib/urlprotocols.jar:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/deploytool/itp/batchboot.jar:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/deploytool/itp/batch2.jar:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/lib/tools.jar -Dibm.websphere.internalClassAccessMode=allow -Xms1024m -Xmx2048m -Xcompressedrefs -Dws.ext.dirs=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/lib:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/classes:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/classes:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/installedChannels:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib/ext:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/web/help:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/deploytool/itp/plugins/com.ibm.etools.ejbdeploy/runtime -Dderby.system.home=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/derby -Dcom.ibm.itp.location=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/bin -Djava.util.logging.configureByServer=true -Duser.install.root=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01 -Djava.ext.dirs=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/tivoli/tam:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/jre/lib/ext -Djavax.management.builder.initial=com.ibm.ws.management.PlatformMBeanServerBuilder -Dpython.cachedir=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/temp/cachedir -Dwas.install.root=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85 -Djava.util.logging.manager=com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WsLogManager -Dserver.root=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01 -Dcom.ibm.security.jgss.debug=off -Dcom.ibm.security.krb5.Krb5Debug=off -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.library.path=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/lib/native/linux/x86_64/:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/jre/lib/amd64/compressedrefs:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/jre/lib/amd64:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/bin:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/nulldllsdir:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib: -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/endorsed_apis:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/java_1.7.1_64/jre/lib/endorsed -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/properties/wsjaas.conf -Djava.security.policy=/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/properties/server.policy com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSPreLauncher -nosplash -application com.ibm.ws.bootstrap.WSLauncher com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServer /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01/config loflfnasv01Cell01 loflfnasv01CellManager01 dmgr]

2021/08/27 14:10:11 VCS DBG_5 WebSphere:OFL-WAS-QP-Dmgr:online:VCSagentFW:messageEngineLog:[

The resource  WAS_HOME  attribute  value is defined as  "/usr/WebSphere/AppServer85"  

 WebSphere OFL-WAS-QP-Dmgr (
                ResLogLevel = TRACE
                ServerName = Name of the server
                WAS_NODE = loflfnasv01CellManager01
                WAS_HOME = "/usr/WebSphere/AppServer85"
                User = wasadm
                ServerProfile = "/usr/WebSphere/AppServer85/profiles/Dmgr01"
                ServerType = DeploymentManager

root@test>ls -ld /usr/WebSphere

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Dec 8 2014 /usr/WebSphere -> /opt/ibm/WebSphere

 

The WAS_HOME needs to be an absolute path rather than a soft link.