JBoss Operations Network Server and Modules

JBoss ON Server

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The JBoss ON Server is the command center for managing your JBoss Middleware environment. Tight integration with both the JBoss Network Customer Service Portal (JBoss CSP) and JBoss ON agents allow it to act as the central repository for content updates and raw management data. The JBoss ON Server provides a rich graphical interface as your management console. The JBoss ON Server acts as the central messaging bus for all monitoring, inventory and control events with full audit capabilities. It also manages the triggers and actions used for alerting.

• Custom dashboards
• User logins authenticated through LDAP
• Roles for fine-grained administrative access control
• Server API spans across all supported modules
• Extensive command line interface

Inventory Module

The Inventory module catalogs IT assets spanning platforms (Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, AIX), servers (Apache, Apache Tomcat, JBoss EAP) and services (EJB, Message Driven Beans, data sources). A central repository of resources that JBoss ON manages and monitors is generated from information collected by the agents. Creation of logical topologies made up of resources can now provide improved visibility and control of your business applications (versions and dependencies).

• Auto-discovery by agent or manual discovery options
• Discover by file scan, registry scan or process table scan
• Resources can be organized in logical groups and logical topologies
• Dynamic resource groups based on rules

Administration module

The Administration module provides a single location for performing key control functions. Functions can be ordered, initiated on-demand or scheduled for a later time for logical groups of components. And an audit trail ensures that you'll know whenever any administration functions took place and by whom.

• Start, stop and re-start applications across the JBoss Middleware platform
• Low-level access to all configuration files, individually or as groups
• Operations can be triggered by events
• Versioning for configuration files
• Schedule operations in parallel or in serial (rolling) format
• Roll-back to previous versions

Content module

The Content module proactively notifies subscribers of new patches and software updates relevant to their environment. Updates can now be handled in a much more organized and timely manner through scheduling and version control. And all activities can be audited for compliance purposes.

• Updates can be reviewed, rejected or applied
• Updates can be applied to individual components or clusters
• Alert generation if update fails
• Version control and roll-back

Monitoring module

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The monitoring server is fully integrated within the larger JBoss ON platform, and is constantly building and updating a model of behavior for each and every measurement collected by the agents. This allows you to define alerts relevant to the actual behavior of your infrastructure. Baselines detect out-of-band problems, allowing you to quickly identify resources that require attention. In addition, this provides a historical view of what was happening at the time of the fault. JBoss ON Monitoring allows you to define alerts based upon pre-defined thresholds and, if desired, automate control actions to correct faults. Graphing and charting capabilities like trend analysis are also included. A full audit trail of alerts is maintained for compliance purposes.

• Pre-selected, configurable, and custom statistics
• Alerts (currently SMTP/email alerts)
• Up to two years of data storage
• Initiate control actions on alerts
• Baseline measurements and problem detection
• Full alert audit trail
• File system and directory monitoring