Features
JBoss ON Server
The JBoss ON Server is the command center for managing your JBoss middleware environment. The JBoss ON Server provides a rich AJAX-based 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.
JBoss ON Server provides:
- Custom dashboards
- User logins authenticated through LDAP
- Roles for fine-grained administrative access control
- Server API spans across all supported modules
- Remote API accessible via SOAP and Java clients
- Extensive secure CLI support
Inventory module
The Inventory module catalogs IT assets spanning platforms (Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, AIX), servers (JBoss EWS, EAP, SOA-P), and services (EJB, Message Driven Beans, data sources, ESB services). 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).
The Inventory module allows:
- Auto-discovery by agent or manual discovery options
- Discovery by file scan, registry scan, or process table scan
- Resources 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 take place and by whom.
The Administration module provides many features, including:
- The capability to start, stop, and restart 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
Monitoring module
JBoss ON’s monitoring solution has advanced monitoring capabilities for the complete line of JBoss Middleware products, related operating system, and web-tier resources. The JBoss ON Monitoring module allows you to improve the operational efficiency of your JBoss middleware infrastructure. You can identify issues before your customers tell you about them, predict potential problems before they even occur, and pinpoint the exact cause for the issue more quickly and accurately. All in all, you can minimise downtime and the costs associated with downtime like lost revenue and unsatisfied customers. The monitoring module 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 predefined 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.
The Monitoring module provides:
- Pre-selected, configurable, and custom statistics
- Alerts (currently SMTP/email alerts)
- Configurable data storage
- Initiate control actions on alerts
- Baseline measurements and problem detection
- Full alert audit trail
- File system monitoring