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JBoss ON Management Server

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The JBoss ON Management 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 Management Server provides a rich graphical interface as your management console. The JBoss ON Management 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.

• Robust web interface
• User logins authenticated through LDAP
• Roles for fine-grained administrative access control
• High Availability support
• Management server clustering
• Agent synchronization after lost communication
• Automatic agent failover to another available server
• Simple to install and configure

Understand what you have

Inventory capabilities in JBoss ON catalogs IT assets spanning platforms (Linux, HP-UX, Sun® Solaris, Microsoft® Windows, AIX), servers (Apache, JBoss EAP, JBoss ESB), and services (EJB, Message Driven Beans, data sources, et. al.). 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.

• Auto-discover with agents or use manual discovery options
• Automatic discovery without tedious configuration or file path searches
• Organize resources in logical groups and topologies
• Create dynamic resource groups based on rules

Enable operations

JBoss ON administration capabilities provide a single location for performing key control functions. Functions for logical groups of components can be ordered, initiated on-demand, or scheduled for a later time. And an audit trail ensures that you'll know when administration functions took place and who made them happen.

• Start, stop and re-start applications across Enterprise Application and SOA platforms
• Provide low-level access to configuration files
• Versioning for configuration files
• Schedule operations in parallel or in serial (rolling) format
• Roll-back to previous versions

Stay up to date

Keeping your JBoss Middleware and applications current is easy with JBoss ON. The solution can proactively notify subscribers of new patches and software updates relevant to their environment, and then allow for easy deployment. Application updates can now be handled in a much more organized and timely manner through versioning. And all activities can be audited for compliance purposes.

• Easily review, reject, or apply updates
• Apply updates to individual components
• Provide application versioning
• Deploy applications in a repeatable, consistent manner

Make sure it's all running smoothly

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The JBoss ON Monitoring for Enterprise Application Platform and Enterprise SOA Platform upgrades provide out of the box and extensible monitoring of hundreds of metrics in your JBoss Middleware environment. The metrics are constantly being updated and modeled based on their behavior in the environment. 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, the monitoring upgrade provides a historical view of what was happening in the environment at the time of a fault. You can also define alerts based upon pre-defined thresholds and, if desired, automate control actions to correct faults. Graphing and charting capabilities for trend analysis are also included.

• Pre-select, configure, and customize statistics
• Send SNMP or email alerts
• Initiate control actions on alerts
• Take baseline measurements and detect problems
• Provide a full alert audit trail
• Monitor at the file system and directory level
• Automatic compression and pruning of historical data