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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 and reduce risks associated with middleware upgrades, migrating applications to open-source or less expensive platforms, building private clouds, upgrading core applications, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT infrastructures. The document then summarizes the RapidDeploy plugin for JBoss, which provides tasks to install, configure, deploy applications to JBoss Application Server and Enterprise Application Platform, take configuration snapshots, and more.

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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. • 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. JBoss Insights • JBoss Application Server is a complex, highly configurable product with many interrelated configuration items. The RapidDeploy™ JBoss plugins support deployment of code (in the form of ear/war files) and configuration to the JBoss server. • The plugin includes tasks to install and patch JBoss binaries on target server. • The plugins includes modules for snapshotting all configuration items in a JBoss server 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, JBoss server. Snapshotting may be achieved by file based methodologies. • The plugins also include modules for JBoss configuration and code deployment. This allows for an application, its mappings and JBoss 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. RapidDeploy™ Plugin for JBoss RapidDeploy™TargetPlugin RapidDeploy™ provides organizations with Application Release Automation capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure compliance. There is a range of plugins available to extend the core automation framework capabilities to most available platforms and perform integrations throughout the DevOps toolchain. This datasheet refers to the JBoss plugin. Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com.
JBoss Plugin Overview The RapidDeploy™ JBoss plugin enables you to automate the deployment of your JBoss web servers and deploy applications through a secure interface. You can also: • Take snapshots of your environments • Compare snapshots to eliminate configuration drift • Template configurations • Deploy them through environments • Add and remove users The JBoss plugin supports both JBoss Application Server (AS) and Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). JBoss Plugin Tasks JBoss Plugin Versions The JBoss Plugin supports JBoss Application Server (AS) 6.x, 7.x and Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) version 6.x. If you use a version of JBoss that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using RapidDeploy™ please email sales@midvision.com with the details. For future versions, we aim to have support within two quarters of the vendor announcing general availability, although customer demand can accelerate our development roadmap. RapidDeploy™ Plugins The RapidDeploy™ plugins extend the functionality of the core automation framework and are categorised in the following way: • Toolchain plugins enabling integration with Build Engines, Artifact repositories and Source Control Management tools • Transport plugins enabling use of SSH and Agent capability • Target plugins enabling connectivity with broad range of Middleware Applications and Databases • Cloud plugins enabling connectivity to cloud providers • Business Intelligence plugins to extend the CAF including for example, enhanced comparison functionality and additional reporting capabilities Plugins ship with: • A Library of commonly used tasks • Wizards extensive help information • Predefined automation library elements www.midvision.com©MidVision2013.Allrightsreserved. Application Server • InstallJBossAS7Task • DeployAS7ModulesTask • AddAS7ManagementUserTask • AddAS7ApplicationUserTask • StartAS7ServerTask • StopAS7ServerTask • ExecuteAS7CommandsTask • DeployJBossAS7ApplicationTask • UnDeployJBossAS7ApplicationTask • UnInstallJBossAS7Task • JBossAS70DiscoveryTask • InstallJBossAS7WebServerTask • CheckJBossAS7ResourceExistTask • CreateJBossAS7JdbcDriverTask • CreateJBossAS7DataSourceTask • TestJBossAS7DataSourceTask • WriteJBossAS7AttributeTask Enterprise Application Platform • InstallJBossEAP6Task • DeployEAP6ModulesTask • AddEAP6ManagementUserTask • AddEAP6ApplicationUserTask • StartEAP6ServerTask • StopEAP6ServerTask • ExecuteEAP6CommandsTask • DeployJBossEAP6ApplicationTask • UnDeployJBossEAP6ApplicationTask • UnInstallJBossEAP6Task • InstallJBossEAP6WebServerTask • CheckJBossEAP6ResourceExistTask • CreateJBossEAP6JdbcDriverTask • CreateJBossEAP6DataSourceTask • TestJBossEAP6DataSourceTask • WriteJBossEAP6AttributeTask RapidDeploy™TargetPlugin Want this plugin? Getting hold of it’s easy - either: 1) Go to the Plugin Manager in your installation of RapidDeploy™ and pick your plugin from the list or 2) Go to www.midvision.com Support Downloads RapidDeploy Plugin Downloads and select your plugin from there. 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 sales@midvision.com. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com.

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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. • 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. JBoss Insights • JBoss Application Server is a complex, highly configurable product with many interrelated configuration items. The RapidDeploy™ JBoss plugins support deployment of code (in the form of ear/war files) and configuration to the JBoss server. • The plugin includes tasks to install and patch JBoss binaries on target server. • The plugins includes modules for snapshotting all configuration items in a JBoss server 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, JBoss server. Snapshotting may be achieved by file based methodologies. • The plugins also include modules for JBoss configuration and code deployment. This allows for an application, its mappings and JBoss 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. RapidDeploy™ Plugin for JBoss RapidDeploy™TargetPlugin RapidDeploy™ provides organizations with Application Release Automation capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure compliance. There is a range of plugins available to extend the core automation framework capabilities to most available platforms and perform integrations throughout the DevOps toolchain. This datasheet refers to the JBoss plugin. Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com.
  • 2. JBoss Plugin Overview The RapidDeploy™ JBoss plugin enables you to automate the deployment of your JBoss web servers and deploy applications through a secure interface. You can also: • Take snapshots of your environments • Compare snapshots to eliminate configuration drift • Template configurations • Deploy them through environments • Add and remove users The JBoss plugin supports both JBoss Application Server (AS) and Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). JBoss Plugin Tasks JBoss Plugin Versions The JBoss Plugin supports JBoss Application Server (AS) 6.x, 7.x and Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) version 6.x. If you use a version of JBoss that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using RapidDeploy™ please email sales@midvision.com with the details. For future versions, we aim to have support within two quarters of the vendor announcing general availability, although customer demand can accelerate our development roadmap. RapidDeploy™ Plugins The RapidDeploy™ plugins extend the functionality of the core automation framework and are categorised in the following way: • Toolchain plugins enabling integration with Build Engines, Artifact repositories and Source Control Management tools • Transport plugins enabling use of SSH and Agent capability • Target plugins enabling connectivity with broad range of Middleware Applications and Databases • Cloud plugins enabling connectivity to cloud providers • Business Intelligence plugins to extend the CAF including for example, enhanced comparison functionality and additional reporting capabilities Plugins ship with: • A Library of commonly used tasks • Wizards extensive help information • Predefined automation library elements www.midvision.com©MidVision2013.Allrightsreserved. Application Server • InstallJBossAS7Task • DeployAS7ModulesTask • AddAS7ManagementUserTask • AddAS7ApplicationUserTask • StartAS7ServerTask • StopAS7ServerTask • ExecuteAS7CommandsTask • DeployJBossAS7ApplicationTask • UnDeployJBossAS7ApplicationTask • UnInstallJBossAS7Task • JBossAS70DiscoveryTask • InstallJBossAS7WebServerTask • CheckJBossAS7ResourceExistTask • CreateJBossAS7JdbcDriverTask • CreateJBossAS7DataSourceTask • TestJBossAS7DataSourceTask • WriteJBossAS7AttributeTask Enterprise Application Platform • InstallJBossEAP6Task • DeployEAP6ModulesTask • AddEAP6ManagementUserTask • AddEAP6ApplicationUserTask • StartEAP6ServerTask • StopEAP6ServerTask • ExecuteEAP6CommandsTask • DeployJBossEAP6ApplicationTask • UnDeployJBossEAP6ApplicationTask • UnInstallJBossEAP6Task • InstallJBossEAP6WebServerTask • CheckJBossEAP6ResourceExistTask • CreateJBossEAP6JdbcDriverTask • CreateJBossEAP6DataSourceTask • TestJBossEAP6DataSourceTask • WriteJBossEAP6AttributeTask RapidDeploy™TargetPlugin Want this plugin? Getting hold of it’s easy - either: 1) Go to the Plugin Manager in your installation of RapidDeploy™ and pick your plugin from the list or 2) Go to www.midvision.com Support Downloads RapidDeploy Plugin Downloads and select your plugin from there. 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 sales@midvision.com. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com.