JON Plugin for Websphere patching

Bill Pulec bill.pulec at amentra.com
Thu Jun 9 16:47:09 UTC 2011


I am wondering how intensive writing  a JON plugin to discover the Websphere servers would be. Is extending JON to do that fairly straight forward or would be more involved(I am guessing it would)? Are there mechanisms to easily extend JON's GUI and detection to do this or would it literally be going into JON's source and writing a new GUI and detection system?

We're trying to get a good grasp on the difficult and manpower involved in carrying out extending JON with these features. 

-Bill 

-----Original Message-----
From: rhq-devel-bounces at lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:rhq-devel-bounces at lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of John Mazzitelli
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:08 AM
To: rhq-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: Re: JON Plugin for Websphere patching

Yeah, it sounds like when this is implemented:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644328

might help. I suppose our current bundle feature might be able to do this, too, but I'm not sure. Something to look into anyway.

On 06/08/2011 05:40 PM, Charles Crouch wrote:
> Mazz/other provisioning folks, can you comment on this?
>
> Should Bill be able to use the new provisioning to a server stuff you are looking at, along with a new Websphere plugin to discover the server obviously. Then maybe a sprinkle of CLI to tie this together with the WAS server restart operations?
>
> Cheers
> Charles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I’m attempting to get an estimate on the time and materials that 
>> would be required for a new plugin to extend JON to patch WebSphere 
>> libraries. I envision this plugin will allow the administrator to 
>> select a subset of WAS nodes and a new JAR library to add to the 
>> nodes, then have JON deploy(these would probably be stored on a 
>> shared
>> drive) the JARs to the correct directories, remove the old version 
>> and then restart the WAS nodes(in specified order if need be). JON 
>> would then display status as to the success or failure of the patch.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let me know if you need any more details.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Pulec
>>
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