Datasheet webspheremq 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. 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 centralized management of WebSphere MQ configurations and deployment of changes similarly to code. It helps reduce errors and ensures consistency across environments.
Datasheet webspheremq 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 MQ Insights • Managing WebSphere MQ is often a manual task, requiring an army of skilled WMQ administrators to manually configure many disparate WMQ 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 individuals heads. • The MidVision WebSphere MQ extension for IBM Rational Automation Framework allows you to manage WMQ configurations centrally in an SCM tool and deploy changes just as you would code. You can snapshot a (Development or “Golden”) WMQ 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 extension 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 extension also allows you to take point in time snapshots of WMQ environments for comparison over time to measure and control configuration drift. MidVision Extension to the IBM Rational Automation Framework: WebSphere MQ 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 MQ. 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 MQ Overview The MidVision Extension for MQ automates the deployment of WMQ binaries, configuration projects and queue managers. It also provides the capability to: • Take snapshots of your environments • Detect configuration drift by comparing environment configurations • Create templates to create new MQSC artifacts that can be cloned MidVision Extension for WebSphere MQ Templates A ‘Create New’ template is available for environment creation from the edit/promote panel using the New Environment Definition function. The WebSphere MQ Plugin template is: • WMQ Create/Configure/Deploy Template MidVision Extension for WebSphere MQ Task List • WmqBinaryInstallTask • WmqDeploymentTask • WmqDefaultManageQueueManagerTask • WmqBespokeWmqCommandTask MidVision Extension to RAF for WebSphere MQ Versions The MidVision Extension to RAF for WebSphere MQ supports WebSphere MQ 7.x and 8.x. If you use a version of WebSphere MQ that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using the MidVision Extensions for RAF please email [email protected] 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 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 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 [email protected]. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com. MidVisionExtensiontoIBMRAF