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Creating Run time Instances

WayneLeishman edited this page Jan 29, 2018 · 6 revisions

Some products including Integration Server and Universal Messaging support multiple instances. When you install these products using Command Central you do not get instances created. You have an opportunity to create a fully customized instance based on the environment instance configuration.

To find out what products support instance management you can use the following CC CLI command:

[user@linuxbox tutorial]$ sagcc list instances dev8192 supportedproducts
Node Alias      Product Id              Product Display Name                    Version
dev8192         NUMRealmServer          Universal Messaging | Realm Server      10.1.0.0.96243
dev8192         integrationServer       Integration Server | Server             10.1.0.0.99
dev8192         PIECore                 Infrastructure | Integration Core       10.1.0.0.99

where dev8192 is the node alias for the managed installation.

Product instance management requires corresponding product SPM Plugin. Most products install SPM Plugin automatically, but not all. Ensure you have required plugins installed.

Reminder: To find out if the SPM plugin was installed for the product in question, open the Command Central Web UI and go into the product repository view. Select the repository you will be using, then find the product in the list. Use the gear menu “Show Product Dependencies” and search for SPM. If SPM is in the list, then you do NOT have to explicitly install it.

Providing Licenses

We will need a valid Integration Server and Universal Messaging licenses to import into Command Central and then use when runtime instances are created.

  1. Open the Command Central Web UI and go to Licensing. Use + icon to import license files.

Note: license file are not included with this tutorial. For core products you intend to install that require a license key (e.g. IS and UM) you will need to import your own license key file(s).

  1. Open template/tutorial/template.yaml in the text editor.

Modify version: to be 0.7 to denote the change we're making in the changes: (e.g. "- 0.7 Added licenses and runtime instances").

  1. Add licenses: sections with <targetFilePath> : <licenseKeyAlias> pairs like this:
templates:                                         # TEMPLATES definition
  is:                                              # template alias
    licenses:                                      # copy lincense from the license repository to a template location
      "IntegrationServer/config/licenseKey.xml": ${is.license.key}
    products:                                      # product list to install
      integrationServer:                           # Integration Server productId
    fixes: ${is.fixes}                             # fixes to install
  um:                                              # template alias
    licenses:                                      # copy lincense from the license repository to a template location
      "UniversalMessaging/server/templates/licence.xml": ${um.license.key}
    products:                                      # product list to install
      NUMRealmServer:                              # Universal Messaging productId
    fixes: ${um.fixes}                             # fixes to install

This will copy specified licenses from Command Central repository to the target managed node and save them as files in the target locations. The license files then can be passed into the runtime instance creation as a parameter.

Defining Runtime Instances

  1. While in template/tutorial/template.yaml, add inst1: under integrationServer: to create inst1 IS instance. Use license.file instance configuration property to point to IS license file location from the licenses: section.

  2. Repeat the same for inst1: instance under NUMRealmServer: but use UM-specific instance configuration properties.

  3. Add other required instance configuration properties to both IS and UM instances.

Please refer to Command Central Documentation for more details how to create instances.

The template should now look like this:

alias: tutorial
description: How to install and update main products
version: 0.7
changes:
  - 0.1 Initial draft
  - 0.2 Added input parameters
  - 0.3 Added local node bootstrap
  - 0.4 Added products/plugins installation
  - 0.5 Added fix installation
  - 0.6 Added main products and fix installation
  - 0.7 Added licenses and runtime instances

environments:
  default:
    cc.installer: ${}                              # CC bootstrap installer
    install.dir:  ${}                              # SPM installation directory
    spm.port:     8192                             # SPM connection port
    spm.alias:    dev${spm.port}                   # SPM alias
    repo.product: ${}                              # Product repo
    repo.fix:     ${}                              # Fixes repository
    spm.fixes:    ALL                              # Default list of fixes to install
    is.fixes:     ALL                              # Set of IS fixes
    um.fixes:     ALL                              # Set of UM fixes
    is.license.key: ${}                            # Alias for IS license key
    um.license.key: ${}                            # Alias for UM license key

layers:                                            # LAYERS definition
  default:
    productRepo: ${repo.product}                   # product repository for all layers
    fixRepo:     ${repo.fix}                       # fix repository for all layers
  management:                                      # management layer with SPMs
    templates:   [plugins]                         # templates to apply to this layer
  messaging:
    templates:   [um]                              # templates to apply to this layer
  integration:
    templates:   [is]                              # templates to apply to this layer

templates:                                         # TEMPLATES definition
  plugins:                                         # template alias
    products:                                      # product list to install
      ISspm:                                       # Platform Manager Plug-Ins / IS
      NUMspm:                                      # Platform Manager Plug-Ins / UM
    fixes: ${spm.fixes}                            # fixes to install
  is:                                              # template alias
    licenses:                                      # copy license from the license repository to a template location
      "IntegrationServer/config/licenseKey.xml": ${is.license.key}
    products:                                      # product list to install
      integrationServer:                           # Integration Server productId
        inst1:                                     # instance name to create or update
          license.file: IntegrationServer/config/licenseKey.xml
          primary.port:     5551
          diagnostic.port:  5552
          jmx.port:         5553

    fixes: ${is.fixes}                             # fixes to install
  um:                                              # template alias
    licenses:                                      # copy license from the license repository to a template location
      "UniversalMessaging/server/templates/licence.xml": ${um.license.key}
    products:                                      # product list to install
      NUMRealmServer:                              # Universal Messaging productId
        inst1:                                     # instance name to create or update
          license.file: UniversalMessaging/server/templates/licence.xml
          instance.port:    9001
          instance.ip:      localhost
          runtimeComponentId: Universal-Messaging-${instance.name}
    fixes: ${um.fixes}                             # fixes to install

nodes:                                             # NODES definition
 default:                                          # defaults for any environment type
   default:                                        # default node definition
     port: ${spm.port}                             # SPM connection HTTP/S port
     secure: false                                 # do not use SSL port
     bootstrapInfo:
       installDir: ${install.dir}                  # installation directory
       installer:  ${cc.installer}                 # cc installer that can be found in cc_home/profiles/CCE/data/installers

   ${spm.alias}:                                   # definition for specific nodeAlias
     host: localhost                               # Use localhost

provision:                                         # PROVISIONing mapping of layers to nodes
  default:                                         # default environment type
    management:  ${spm.alias}                      # management layer is single node
    messaging:   ${spm.alias}                      # messaging layer is single node
    integration: ${spm.alias}                      # integration layer is single node

Adding Environment Instance Configuration Properties

Edit environment/default/env.properties and add is.license.key= and um.license.key= to point the respective aliases in the Command Central license repository. Remember, the alias names can be found on the Licensing page in the Command Central Web UI.

install.dir=${user.home}/sag/${spm.alias}

# MUST use one of these!

# Defaults for Windows
# cc.installer=cc-def-10.1-fix5-w64.zip 
 
# Defaults for Linux
# cc.installer=cc-def-10.1-fix5-lnxamd64.sh
 
# Defaults for Mac
# cc.installer=cc-def-10.1-fix5-osx.sh

repo.product=products-10.1
repo.fix=fixes-10.1

is.license.key=YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
um.license.key=YOUR_LICENSE_KEY

The new elements are the two license key alias variables!

If you don't have license files you can comment out license related template sections and properties.

  • Universal Messaging will be functional with the default evaluation license.
  • Integration Server will only run for 30 minutes and then shut down.

Save the changes made to template.yaml and env.properties.

Apply the template:

[user@linuxbox tutorial]$ ant up
...
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: ....

When the job successfully completes the Command Central Web UI will show two new instances under the Instances tab (IS_inst1 and Universal-Messaging-inst1). These instances will be up and running and have your licenses applied.

If you have not achieved the goals of this tutorial stage, use the following command to checkout everything that needed to be done so far. Note: Before you do the checkout, take note of modifications you made to environment/default/env.properties because the version that you check out will overwrite them.

[user@linuxbox tutorial]$ git checkout stage-07 -f
Switched to branch 'stage-07'

Instance Parameters Reference

Each product supports different instance parameters.

You have several options for discovering these parameters:

  1. Consult product-specific documentation by searching for sagcc create instances command.

  2. Consult Command Central Template Library

  3. Create product instance using Command Central Web UI and then request its properties using sagcc get instances nodeAlias instanceId. For example, for our instances it would look like this:

[user@linuxbox tutorial]$ sagcc get instances dev8192 Universal-Messaging-inst1
#Thu Jan 04 13:11:39 PST 2018
license.file=.../sag/dev8192/UniversalMessaging/server/inst1/licence.xml
instance.ip=localhost
instance.port=9001
instance.name=inst1
instance.dataDir=.../sag/dev8192/UniversalMessaging/server/inst1
[user@linuxbox tutorial]$ sagcc get instances dev8192 integrationServer-inst1
#Thu Jan 04 13:15:21 PST 2018
jmx.port=5553
db.url=jdbc\:derby\:embedded;create\=true
license.file=.../sag/dev8192/IntegrationServer/instances/inst1/config/licenseKey.xml
primary.port=5551
instance.name=inst1
db.username=APP
install.service=false
db.alias=Embedded_Database_Pool
diagnostic.port=5552
package.list=
db.type=derby
db.password=APP

Summary

Congratulations! You've successfully created instances of the core products Integration Server and Universal Messaging.