COMMAND CENTRAL UNIFIED MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING FOR WEBMETHODS Jonathan Heywood Senior Director, Product Management, Product Marketing and Communities Software AG

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TWO MAIN DRIVERS

Large landscape management:

• Reduce risk • Reduce effort • Increase agility

Cloud enablement: • Scalability • Automation • Elastic expansion

Command Central

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Deploy

Install Configure

Patch

Administer

Monitor

WHO IS COMMAND CENTRAL FOR?

Infrastructure engineers System administrators System operators

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CHALLENGES FOR TODAY’S WEBMETHODS ADMINS

Scale Risk Different products

Segregation of responsibilities

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KEY REQUIREMENTS

Centralized

Unified

Scalable

Automatable

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• Compare fix levels • Install fixes • Audit trail

COMMAND CENTRAL SCOPE

• Manage installations and instances • Group into environments • Monitor, start/stop • Access log files

• Manage software repository • Bootstrap servers • Install product

Product Installation

Fix Management

Landscape Management

Web UI Service API Command Line

• Unified configuration • Compare configuration • Across multiple instances

Central Configuration

• Deployment of assets • Linked to environments • Compare assets

Solution Management

(Future)

• Define templates • Product, Fixes, Config, Assets

• Manage substitution variables • Apply templates to targets

Template-based Provisioning

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COMMAND CENTRAL ARCHITECTURE

Installation Platform Manager

SPM Plugin

SPM Plugin

SPM Plugin

Runtime A

Runtime B

Runtime C

Command Central Server

Web UI

Service API

Command Line

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BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY

•  Command Central is backward compatible –  It can manage installations from 9.0 and higher

•  Functionality may be limited when managing older installations –  Dependent on the capabilities of that SPM/plugin version –  You cannot upgrade SPM/plugin for an old installation

•  Always use the latest version of Command Central

CC 9.9

SPM 9.0

SPM 9.5

SPM 9.6

SPM 9.7

SPM 9.8

SPM 9.9

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USE-CASES

Elastic Expansion

New project/developer environments

Repro-environments

Scripted maintenance activities

Centralized management/monitoring

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USE CASE 1

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•  Single, central view of your landscape –  Do everything from one console –  Manage all products in the same way –  Group servers into environments

•  No need to log onto remote machines to… –  Start/stop components –  Install fixes –  Access log files

•  Keep your landscape in shape by… –  Finding configuration discrepancies –  Spotting issues in time –  Checking license compliance

CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT/MONITORING

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USE CASE 2

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•  Everything in Command Central is available through command-line (CLI)

•  Prepare scripts for your sysadmins –  Stop/restart multiple components –  Install fixes –  Make a configuration change

•  Less effort –  Write once –  Easily repeated on multiple components

•  Less risk –  No human error from clicking through UI

SCRIPTED MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES

> cc exec lifecycle stop prodis1

> cc list monitoring runtimestatus prodis1 --check-every 5 --wait 60 --expected-values STOPPED

> cc exec lifecycle start prodis1

>

> cc exec provisioning fixes prodis1 Empower install artifacts=wMFix.IS.IS9_8CoreFix1

>

> cc update configuration data prodis1 JDBC

-i jdbcupdate20151016.xml

> cc update configuration data prodis2 JDBC -i jdbcupdate20151016.xml

> _

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USE CASE 3

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•  Reproducing issues can be a big challenge –  Differences in behavior caused by

•  Differences in configuration •  Differences in fix-level

•  Compare environments to spot differences - OR –

•  Clone an environment using snapshot templates –  Save problem environment as a

template –  Apply to a fresh machine to get an

identically installed, patched and configured repro environment

REPRO-ENVIRONMENTS

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USE CASE 4

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•  Automate the installation of new project environments or developer workstations –  Composite templates

•  Products and components •  Fixes •  Configuration

–  Distribute in different ways •  Remote network installation •  Single downloadable ZIP file

–  Installation with a single command/script •  Keep environments updated

–  Update template with latest fixes/config –  Reapply to existing installations

NEW PROJECT/DEVELOPER ENVIRONMENTS

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USE CASE 5

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•  Temporarily increase capacity •  Dynamically add a node to a cluster •  Detect performance degradation

–  Command Central KPIs (basic) –  Optimize for Infrastructure (advanced) –  3rd party monitoring tool (custom)

•  Orchestrate provisioning of extra node –  Shell or Ant script –  webMethods Flow or BPM –  3rd party tool like Chef or Puppet

ELASTIC EXPANSION

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COMMAND CENTRAL DELIVERS

Centralized

Unified

Scalable

Automatable

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