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.
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.
RapidDeploy™ Plugin for WebSphere Message Broker
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 WebSphere Message Broker plugin.
Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision
website at www.midvision.com.
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• 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.
WebSphere Message Broker
Plugin Overview
This RapidDeploy™ plugin, 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.
WebSphere Message Broker Plugin
Task List
• WmbBinaryInstallTask
• WmbDeploymentTask
• WmbDefaultManageBrokerTask
• WmbBespokeWmbCommandTask
WebSphere Message Broker
Plugin Versions
The RapidDeploy™ WebSphere Message Broker Plugin
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 RapidDeploy™ plugin 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.
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
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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