Datasheet webspheremessagebroker midvisionextensionforibmraf
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The document discusses the benefits of automating various IT projects and processes using the MidVision Extension for IBM Rational Automation Framework (RAF). It provides examples of projects that can be accelerated through automation, such as middleware upgrades, platform migrations, and core application upgrades. The MidVision Extension allows for centralized management of WebSphere Message Broker configurations and deployment of changes similarly to code. Historical configurations can be maintained and compared to measure drift over time. The extension supports WebSphere Message Broker versions 7.x and 8.x.
Datasheet webspheremessagebroker midvisionextensionforibmraf
- 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. WebSphere Message Broker Insights • Managing WebSphere Message Broker is often a manual task, requiring an army of skilled WMB administrators to manually configure many disparate WMB configurations which are often quite heterogeneous between environments. Configuration changes, made manually, can easily be misapplied, omitted, lost or be dependent on deep technical knowledge and historical perspective on specific environments that only exist in individual’s heads. • The RapidDeploy™ WebSphere Message Broker plugin allows you to manage WMB configurations centrally in an SCM tool and deploy changes just as you would code. You can snapshot a (Development or “Golden”) WMB configuration, template it (make it environment neutral) and use data dictionary items to apply environment specific settings at deployment time. Changes will never again be misapplied, forgotten, lost or omitted. The historical and technical perspective of why an environment was built in a particular way over time is now maintained in the SCM tool, and not in individual’s heads. • The plugin allows you to reverse change (backout) back to a known good configuration. In fact you can move forwards and back through the retained list of historical versions as often as is required for any or all of your environments. • The plugin also allows you to take point in time snapshots of WMB environment configuration for comparison over time to measure and control configuration drift. MidVision Extension to the IBM Rational Automation Framework: WebSphere Message Broker 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 WebSphere Message Broker Overview This MidVision Extension to IBM RAF, for WebSphere Message Broker, enables the automatic deployment of WMB binaries and applications, creating WebSphere MQ Queue Managers, brokers and execution groups and bar-files. Once your environments are installed, you can deploy overrides, import existing message broker configurations and create templates for use in multiple environments. You can also snapshot and compare your WMB installations over time. MidVision Extension for WebSphere Message Broker Task List • WmbBinaryInstallTask • WmbDeploymentTask • WmbDefaultManageBrokerTask • WmbBespokeWmbCommandTask MidVision Extension to RAF for WebSphere Message Broker Versions The MidVision Extension to RAF for WebSphere Message Broker supports WebSphere Message Broker 7.x and 8.x. If you use a version of WebSphere Message Broker that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using the MidVision Extensions for RAF please email sales@midvision.com with the details. For future versions, we aim to have support within two quarters of IBM 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 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. 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