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.
• 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.
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DataPower Insights
• This plugin augments the framework server with
the ability to take a snapshot of a DataPower
domain (development domain) and store the
domain configuration in the SCM tool defined
for the RapidDeploy™ DataPower project. This
domain is then packaged into a release and can
be deployed to further downstream domains.
• Domain specific values are stored in a data
dictionary and are dynamically injected into the
package at deployment time.
RapidDeploy™ Plugin for Datapower
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 Datapower plugin.
Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision
website at www.midvision.com.
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2. DataPower Plugin Overview
Using the RapidDeploy™ plugin for DataPower
enables you to take snapshots of a domain or domain
component and compare them. You can download and
store development domains and baseline a domain
via a SCM tool. The plugin enables the creation of
domain neutral deployment packages (abstraction
of environment specific configuration items) and the
deployment of domain changes to multiple downstream
target environments.
You can deploy multiple domain updates to multiple
target domains/devices in parallel or serially and link
to other components that have dependencies on these
changes such as Web server or application server
deployments. You can apply firmware upgrade, stop /
start / restart the domain / device / adapters and manage
the device users and groups through RapidDeploy™.
DataPower Plugin Versions
The RapidDeploy™ DataPower plugin supports
DataPower versions 5.x.
If you use a version of DataPower that is not listed
here and you would like to manage it using
RapidDeploy™ 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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