SuperWas Jython scripting library for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
Superwas is a Jython scripting library to be used with IBM WebSphere Application Server. It allows you to define your servers, applications and resources in a property file. This enables automatic and consistent deployments. It allows you to quickly install or uninstall server, resources and applications and enables consistency between different environments like test and production environments. Because it's command line oriented it enables scripted and scheduled deployments. The property files used as input are plain text files which are easy to maintain using a versioning tool, also this enables convenient comparison of environments. Besides installation and deinstallation of servers, resources and applications it also allows starting and stopping for objects that support it (e.g. Application Servers and Applications). Superwas also provides monitoring support for Nagios (a well known infrastructure monitoring tool) of certain WebSphere PMI data: it writes monitoring data to a fifo from which it can be read by a Nagios plugin (which is part of the Superwas distribution).
Superwas uses the wsadmin command line tool to interface with WebSphere Application Server. Superwas written with an Object Oriented approach allowing for easy extending and reuse.
The basic mode of operation is: superwas reads the configuration file and validates it. Subsequently it tries to execute the operations specified (eg install, uninstall, stop or start). Multiple operations can be specified, allowing for uninstall and install in one run.
Besides the main user provided configuration file superwas uses property files for defaults and for predefined objects, in the defaults and predefs directory respectivlely. Defaults specify default values for WebSphere objects, e.g. the heap size of an application server, defaults are overridden by user supplied values in the main configuration file. If neither the main configuration value nor a default is provided a hardcoded default will be uses, mandatory properties never have hardcoded defaults. Predefined objects may be specified, it allows you to create for instance variables for each application servers you define.
Besides the basic operations install, uninstall, stop and start it has options to output documentation (lists all the supported properties) and to output Nagios monitoring to a fifo. In the Nagios monitoring mode it reads the configuration file and checks the monitoring thresholds defined with the PMI data from websphere, the output is written to a fifo in a format suitable for the Nagios Plugin. It then blocks until the data is read from the fifo by the Nagios Plugin. Upon which the process is reitterated, essential this allows Nagios to control the polling interval.
A list of supported WAS resources is output it superwas is invoked without arguments. Most frequently used resources are supported. To get the supported properties of all resources invoke superwas with the documentatation argument.
Superwas should support WAS versions 6.1, 7.0 and 8.0. It has been developped and tested only on WAS 7.0 Network Deployment.
Superwas is invoked with the superwas command. This command assumes that the WebSphere wsadmin.sh command is accessible. Make sure that the directory that contains wsadmin.sh is in the PATH environment variable. Make sure that wsadmin.sh is able to connect to WebSphere, e.g. setup soap.client.properties with the correct login information.
Logging information is written by default to the log directory in the users home directory, make sure the directory exists.
To get usage information invoke superwas without arguments or with the -u argument..
Install all resources specified in config file: superwas -i myconfig.properties --install @
Uninstall all resources specified in config file: superwas -i myconfig.properties --uninstall @
Uninstall then install all resources specified in config file: superwas -i myconfig.properties --uninstall @ --install @
Install only DB2 Datasources specified in config file: superwas -i myconfig.properties --install DB2DataSource
Uninstall then install only DB2 Datasources specified in config file: superwas -i myconfig.properties --uninstall DB2DataSource --install DB2DataSource
Install only named applications: superwas -i myconfig.properties --install Application -n application1 --install Application -n application2
Stop Servers: superwas -i myconfig.properties --stop Server
Stop named server: superwas -i myconfig.properties --stop Server -n server1
Get documentation for properties: superwas -i myconfig.properties --documentation
Start Nagios monitoring writing to fifo /var/lib/superwasnagios superwas -i myconfig.properties --nagiosStats -o /var/lib/superwasnagios