Reduce your WAS/Portal operational costs
Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
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Agenda
The Challenges
Rational’s Solution
Next Steps
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The landscape businesses are facing
The pressure to deliver with less
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of Operations
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Increased competitive
& economic pressures
to deliver differentiation
and move quickly
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What the business wants to do!
Lower Cost & Risk
Regulatory oversight
driving improved
efficiencies, security &
compliance management
What the business must do!
Operational
& maintenance
costs continue
to grow
The cost of failed
projects & rework
compounds the
problem
Budgets are
shrinking
at a time when
investment is
needed in strategic
business assets
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Realities driving up operational cost of WebSphere/Portal Environments
Existing admin teams unable to scale with
impending application growth
Administration and deployment is manual,
time consuming and labor intensive
Defects cause by configuration errors are
frequent and costly
Increasing compliance mandates and
manual compliance processes
Lack of a disaster recovery option / plan
Using Build Forge with their WAS and Portal environments has achieved a
cost savings of over $400K due to automation install and configuration
just in the 1st phase of rollout.
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Can automation help your business?
Administration
How much time do you spent managing environments?
How long does it take to build a new deployment environment from scratch?
What would it mean to you if environment management were automated?
Cost
What is the impact to you of not being able to manage multiple cells?
How are other teams affected by deployment delays/difficulties?
Auditing
Are you able to reliably reproduce a deployment?
Are you able to track the changes to an environment?
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Example: Setting Up A Simple WAS Cluster
Automate to increase Quality, Predictability and Reliability
Total Steps = 150+
1.
Perform pre-installation tasks
(05 steps)
2.
Create, configure, and verify deployment manager profile
(20 steps)
3.
Create, configure, and verify application server profile
(12 steps)
4.
Create, configure, and verify custom profile
(10 steps)
5.
Federate nodes (both app server and custom profiles)
(14 steps)
6.
Install, configure, and verify IBM HTTP server
(14 steps)
7.
Install the distributed remote plug-in
(20 steps)
8.
Create and configure the horizontal cluster (High Availability)
(17 steps)
9.
Enable and configure HA persistent service
(09 steps)
10.
Configure HTTP session persistence
(41 steps)
1.
Memory-to-memory
(20 steps)
2.
Database
(21 steps)
11.
Create and configure SIBus and messaging engine
(5 steps)
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Now consider something more complex….
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Agenda
The Challenges
Rational’s Solution
Next Steps
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Reduce your operational cost in as little as 3-6 months
Achieve unprecedented productivity
Increase productivity
with reduced staff
Automate manual, error-prone,
manual tasks to scale or free up
admin resources to focus on other,
business differentiating tasks
Improve application
delivery speed & quality
Reduce the cost of
compliance
Deliver with a consistent, accurate,
repeatable process
Get governance and automated
documentation for compliance
mandates without extra work or
hassle,
“The Rational Build Forge software saved us from needing to hire additional
personnel, and it improved our staff’s efficiency. As a result, the Rational Software
helped us achieve ROI in less than three months”
Kevin Whiddon
CompuCredit Corp
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Solution: Automate your WAS/Portal Administration to reduce costs
The Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
Customizable Framework for the WebSphere Family of products that delivers
Application deployment automation
WebSphere product installation & patching automation
Configuration, auditing, versioning and rollback
Environment comparison & synchronization
The framework’s strength is…
“Data Driven” - RAFW maintains
normalized configuration data
Accuracy
GM1
Reliability
Apply the right data to the right
WebSphere environment
Consistency
Apply data in repeatable manner to
WebSphere environments
Slide 10
GM1
is this needed?
Galina Mishiev, 9/10/2009
Build Forge and the Rational Automation
Framework for WebSphere
Build Forge provides Software Delivery Automation
- through standardization, consolidation & automation of
the software development life cycle
- yields strong cost savings & improved time to market
The Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere is
an optional feature of Rational Build Forge
- automates, consolidates & simplifies administrative
activities for WAS and Portal environments
- utilizes Build Forge to provide critical functions
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Streamline your build management process and reduce operational costs!
Clients
Central location that gives control
of geographic deployments
Enterprise Proven automation
platform
Rational Build Forge
Distributed automation system
supporting a wide variety of platforms
Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, z/OS,
i5/OS, zLinux, Tandem, etc.
Database
Application Server
Automation Targets
BF
Agent
worker
BF Agent
Rational
Asset
Analyzer
Rational Automation Framework for WS
worker
ClearCase worker
Team Concert
BF
Agent
BF Agent
worker
Rational
Asset
Manager
(RAM)
BF Agent
worker
Rational AppScan
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Does it work? Customer stories
Financial Service Company:
At present, there are some automated processes in place, but with limited consistency.
Knowledge and processes are not standardized across the teams and applications. Much of
engineers’ time is spent executing the steps required to update and deploy these
applications. With repeatable automated build and deploys using Build Forge, this could be
eliminated. In discussions with the team, 50-75% of the total time of engineering is
spent on managing and maintaining Websphere alone. Build Forge can be used to
improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the engineers as well as the team leads and
management.
Source: Rational Build Forge Software Value Assessment for a Financial Company (2007)
Information and Networking Technology
Using the automation framework with their WAS and Portal environments has achieved a
cost savings of over $400K due to automation install and configuration just in the 1st
phase of rollout.
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Summary: The Rational Automation Framework for Websphere
Reduce Maintenance Time
Minimize deployment/environment build time
Build Environments in hours not days
Deploy code in minutes not hours
Gain Control of your Environment
Improve Repeatability & Consistency
Eliminate Spaghetti Infrastructure problem
Rebuild environments consistently
Enforce Standards Across the Enterprise
Reliable and Repeatable Disaster Recovery
Reduce Human Errors
Introduce consistency across SDLC
Reduce Costs
Free staff up for strategic initiatives
Reduce labor costs
If Time = Money, Less time = More Money
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Potential customer benefits
IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
Benefit
Average Improvement
Reduction in Costs
Improved Quality
Highest Improvement
25%
50-70%
30-40%
70-80%
80%
Over 200%
Return on Investment (ROI)
Typically obtained in the first 3 to 6 months of use
Increased Productivity
Speed of builds/releases
Configuration Management
Developer Productivity
110%
42%
28%
500-2000%
90% or greater
81-90%
Source: The Evolution of Build and Release Management for Effective Software Delivery: A Customer Survey with Case Studies
By: Hurwitz & Associates – October 2007
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The Combination of Build Forge & RAFW
• Automation of Entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• WebSphere Framework is completely command line drive, plugs
right into Build Forge
Easy to integrate into Build Forge steps
Automatic generation of Build Forge Projects
• Security layers (common interface for various roles involved in
SDLC)
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Developer
Build Engineer
WebSphere Administrator
User Friendly Web Interface
Ability to thread tasks (horizontal clustered environment)
Notifications
Highly Customizable End to End Solution!
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Businesses are facing an unparalleled rate of change
Manage business
transformations
Enable business
flexibility
Differentiate
products
Exploit
globalization
React to
market shifts
Manage regulatory
mandates
Deliver real
customer innovation
Successful businesses will use software
to drive innovation and competitive differentiation
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Effective software delivery realized by continuous improvement
Modernize
Enterprise Assets
Transform
Information Technology
Business
Value
Differentiate
Products
Accelerate progress
Reduce scrap / rework
Reduce cost of change
Efficiency
Reduce human error
Reduce manual tasks
Improve release
quality
Control
Improve team
productivity
Reduce custom
training and tooling
variants
Global
effectiveness
and collaboration
Productivity
through
automation
Individual
Predictable
governance
and asset
utilization
Improve business
flexibility and lower
costs / risk
Improve stakeholder
satisfaction & output
Software
investment
management
aligned with
business and
operational
priorities
Optimizing software “supply chains”
Team
Organization
Business
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Middleware Versions Supported
Release 7.1.1 (May 14, 2009)
– WebSphere Application Server 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
– WebSphere Network Deployment Server 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
– WebSphere Portal Server version 6.0, 6.1
– Special Bid for 5.1 releases of above products
Release 7.1.2 (4Q09)
– Enhancements based on feedback from Portal and WebSphere development
– New products: WebSpehere Virtual Enterprise 6.1, WebSphere Cloudburst
– Integration with other Rational products (RTC, RTLM, RQM, RAM)
Operating Systems Supported
Linux
AIX
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Release 7.1.2 to add System z support
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Packaging of Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
Packaged as Optional, Chargeable Feature for Build Forge
Same principle as Quick Report or Adaptor Toolkit
Each license allows management of EITHER:
4,000 PVUs of WebSphere Application Server
-OR 1,000 PVUs of WebSphere Portal Server
1 license can not be used to manage capacity in both WebSphere Application Server and
WebSphere Portal Server simultaneously
Multiple licenses of RAFW permitted on a Build Forge Server
Paper license – no license keys required
Availability by Edition
Available for Standard and Enterprise Edition
Not available without Build Forge Server