Datasheet weblogic midvisionextensionforibmraf
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The document discusses the benefits of automating various IT projects and processes using automation tools. It describes how automation can speed up middleware upgrades, application migrations, building private clouds, core application upgrades, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT infrastructure. The document also provides an overview of the MidVision extension for WebLogic, which enables automatic deployment and configuration of WebLogic applications and servers through tasks like taking snapshots, detecting configuration drift, template creation, and environment promotion.
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- 1. Compelling Events for Automation • Middleware Upgrades It’s great when new vendors bring out new features - but often taking advantage of them takes a good deal of time and effort to upgrade the new infrastructure - and introduces risk. Automating the upgrade project speeds it up, reduces the risk and builds a more manageable platform in the future. • Migrating off ‘Premium Product’ With the economy as it is, more organizations are forced to tighten their belts, and one area that has come under particular scrutiny is the annual cost of maintaining installed software. Some organizations have made the decision to move less business critical applications off more expensive middleware onto open-source platforms such as JBoss and Tomcat. This type of project is accelerated when it’s automated and an automation tool makes managing hybrid or heterogeneous environments much easier. • Building a PAAS or a private cloud With pressure on businesses to deliver more innovation to their customers, faster, we see many of our customers building Platforms As A Service and private clouds. These are a lot faster and quicker to set up using an automation tool, and a lot quicker to manage demand once they are up and running. • Core business application upgrades or migrations Many of our customers occasionally need to upgrade or even replace their core business applications - often complex, multi-layered, integrated systems that have evolved over time and have many integration points and are absolutely critical to the minute by minute operations of the business. Using an automation tool can reduce the risk and time associated with such a project. • Platform migrations Sometimes it’s time to move from one platform to another - for instance, customers sometimes feel that a UNIX based platform will offer them performance advantages over an OS400 platform. But moving hundreds of middleware applications might seem like a challenge too far - without automation. WebLogic Insights • WebLogic Application Server is a complex, highly configurable product with literally thousands of interrelated configuration items. The WebLogic plugins support deployment of code (in the form of ear/war files) and configuration to the WebLogic domain. • The plugin includes tasks to install and patch WebLogic binaries on the target server. • The plugin includes modules for snapshotting all configuration items in a WebLogic domain for comparison over time to highlight configuration drift. The exported configuration may also be templated and used as the basis to re-import to this, or another, WebLogic domain. Snapshotting may be achieved by either file based or JMX methodologies. • The plugin also includes modules for WebLogic configuration and code deployment via a Python scripting framework. This allows for an application, its mappings and WebLogic configuration items to be deployed in an idempotent way (The deployment always brings the target up to the desired state). All common configuration items are supported in a simple to understand and use way. • It is easy, for example, to set a cluster count and topology with a couple of configuration lines, instead of the (potentially) thousands of lines that would be needed using an xml export definition. Then, to create a package to increase the cluster count by one cluster member on each node in the topology is a single character change to the configuration file. This will be rolled out and updated automatically on the next deployment to this environment, along with any other code and configuration changes bundled into this package. Packages can be rolled forwards and back as required. MidVision Extension to the IBM Rational Automation Framework: WebLogic MidVision Extensions extend the target platforms of the IBM Rational Automation Framework which provides organisations with Application Release Automation capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure compliance. This datasheet refers to the MidVision Extension for WebSphere Message Broker. MidVisionExtensiontoIBMRAF
- 2. • Rearchitecting Change is a constant and businesses need to continually evolve their IT infrastructure and operations, build new environments for things like Disaster Recovery and automating the build and deployment of these new environments means delivering them faster. MidVision Extension for WebLogic Overview The MidVision Extension for WebLogic enables you to automatically deploy and configure WebLogic application servers and applications. You can, all without the use of scripts: • Take snapshots of your environments • Detect configuration drift and compare environment configurations • Create templates from your snapshots • Promote them to create further downstream environments through which to deploy your EAR files based on this initial “golden” environment MidVision Extension for WebLogic Templates A ‘Create New’ template is available for environment creation from the edit/promote panel using the New Environment Definition function. The WebLogic Template is: • WebLogic 11 Template MidVision Extension for WebLogic Tasks • WebLogicBinaryInstallTask • WebLogicBinaryPatchingTask • WebLogicBinaryUnInstallTask • WebLogicDeploymentViaJythonTask • DeployFileViaJmxTask • UndeployFileViaJmxTask • DeployConfigurationViaJmxTask • StartDomainTask • StopDomainTask • StartManagedServerTask • StopManagedServerTask • DeployConfigurationTask • OracleFusionMiddlewareFormsCompileTask MidVision Extension to RAF for WebLogic Versions The MidVision Extension for WebLogic supports WebLogic 11G. If you use a version of WebLogic that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using the MidVision extension please email [email protected] with the details. For future versions, we aim to have support within two quarters of Oracle announcing general availability, although customer demand can accelerate our development roadmap. MidVision Extensions MidVision have a number of extensions available for the IBM Rational Automation Framework from either IBM or as plugins direct from MidVision: Extensions ship with: • A Library of commonly used tasks • Wizards extensive help information • Predefined automation library elements Want this extension? Getting hold of it’s easy: Go to the Plugin Manager in your installation of your MidVision Extension(s) and pick your plugin from the list. If you have any problems, please call or email your MidVision Account Manager. You must license your plugin separately - please speak to your MidVision Account Manager or email [email protected]. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com. www.midvision.com©MidVision2013.Allrightsreserved. Extensions from IBM • WebSphere MQ • WebSphere Message Broker • Oracle WebLogic • Red Hat JBoss Target Plugins from MidVision • .Net • Apache • Apache Tomcat • IBM Datapower • IBM WebSphere Portal Server • IBM WebSphere Business Process Manager • MySQL • Oracle DB MidVisionExtensiontoIBMRAF