Webinar presented by Mike Croft, C2B2 Managed Services Consultant, on the 8th of November 2012.
This webinar demonstrates how you can significantly improve your support of production JBoss environments using JBoss Operations Network. In the webinar C2B2's experienced support engineer will show you how to gather extensive internal metrics from your production JBoss instances, how to configure alerts to warn you of potential problems in your production JBoss cluster and how to diagnose and triage issues.
The aim of this Webinar is to introduce the concept of monitoring to those unfamiliar and to go over how Jboss Operations Network, or JON, can work to improve your business operations
JON or RHQ?RHQ is the unsupported “upstream” product, so JBoss Operations Network is positioned as the more stable, enterprise releaseBoth products are very similar, so what applies to one will, more often than not, apply to both. This means that it’s always a good idea to check RHQ documentation when troubleshooting JONWhere has JOPR gone?JOPR has been subsumed into RHQIt was a…………..TODOAgents and serversJON is a combination of a server based on an embedded Jboss Application Server and a collection of “Agents” which are usually installed per-machine.PluginsPlugins are the driving force behind JON. There are plugins available from Red Hat which are configured to monitor common Java applications, including all Jboss components.Generic plugins are also provided so specific plugins not commonly available can be derived. This is especially useful if you have an exotic JMX-supporting database that doesn’t have a plugin already! And, since it’s JBoss, there’s a strong community of developers around.PrerequisitesThe only prerequisites are a supported database and Java. Currently, the only supported databases are Postgres or Oracle, though it is possible to use either SQL server or it’s own embedded database. It’s important to note that it is not advisable to use the latter in production!