What’s new in OpenEdge 10.2B OpenEdge Management OpenEdge Replication Libor Laubacher Principal TSE, Progress Software

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B What is new and what is OpenEdge Management 10.2 What is new and what is OpenEdge Replication

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B Database Transparent data encryption Enhances security Separate license Alternate buffer pool “-B2” Independent to a primary “-B” buffer pool

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B DataServers Support for BLOB data type for MS SQL Support for RECID in DataServer for ODBC and MS SQL Support for DATETIME data type WebClient Installation without Administrator rights

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B OpenEdge Architect upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.2 latest Ultra Controls for .NET outline view update and include files expansion performance improvements AppServer support ability to define new brokers within OEA

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B ABL (4GL) updated XREF output and ABL logging CLASS, EVENT, METHOD, PUBLISH, SUBSCRIBE improved dynamic invocation of DLLs’ and UNIX libraries support for abstract classes including methods and properties timed STOP condition for DO, FOR and REPEAT blocks for RPC in CANCEL-REQUESTS after method

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B AppServer KeepAlive protocol for failed connections Changing properties dynamically at a runtime Support for Actional monitoring OpenEdge Explorer now packaged and started automatically with a client installation

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication What is new in OpenEdge 10.2B OpenEdge Replication support for TDE support for tables larger than 4 billion records an online backup of a target database OpenEdge Management new installation and packaging support for Actional monitoring of OE resources

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication OE Management overview 10.2A improvements What can OE Management do for you (not only) while watching this session terminology examples Best practices

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication OpenEdge™ Management is a Java based management and monitoring suite, which allows you to keep an eye on your OpenEdge environment and Operating system, saving a time by automating your daily tasks and keeping you informed anywhere you might be about anything you might be interested in within your environment. Information about resources you monitor can be also stored in a database and accessed later for further analysis or reporting. OE Management can monitor not only your local environment, but also any machine remotely, under the condition there is OpenEdge AdminServer installed and running and there is TCP/IP connectivity between Management and remote machines.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication OE Management remote configuration OpenEdge Management Remote monitoring using TCP/IP File server Production Dev server QA server In case of a distributed environment, OE Management can help you to keep an eye on any machine which has the AdminServer running on it. As stated previously there must be a TCP/IP connectivity between those servers and main OE Management machine. Anything “bad” happening on those machines will be picked up by OE Management agent, passed up to a main server and you will find your pager beeping or mail box getting filled up, before your users will pick up the phone and start to complain. Since OE Management is accessible via Web, ie. Web browser, you will be able to access all the information or check the current performance of any of the monitored servers from anywhere using just your favourite browser.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication New features of 10.2A – added OE DataServers (ODBC, Oracle, MSSQL), Sonic and WebServices adapter as resources you may monitor, set your alerts, trend a data. On the top of which you can modify and configure properties of any OpenEdge resource like database, WebSpeed, WebService adapter, dataservers, both locally and remotely within 1 central access point, which is your OpenEdge Management Console. Starting 10.2A there is no longer need for Progress Explorer, no longer need for manual changes (and mistakes) of .properties files, you can now fully manage all your environment using OE Management.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Resource Rules & rule sets Alerts Action Jobs Reports

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Resource anything which can be monitored or trended

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Rules a performance requirement that can be evaluated Rule sets common group of rules for a specific resource

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Alerts a response to a broken rule

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Action a process to be performed in a response to an alert

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Jobs anything OE Management can run, schedule, execute Full cron compatible syntax.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Reports

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication CPU monitor example – monitoring CPU every 5 minutes, and getting alerted every time CPU peeks at 80% and above. There are several ways how to check get the alert when something goes wrong – email, pager, text message or you can simply check it online, which brings me to a next slide.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Access from anywhere: Starbucks, airport, beach, you name it. The only thing you need is a browser, device does not matter.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Job (database backup) example – OE Management performs an online backup at a scheduled time (OE Management has a cron compatible scheduler) and if the backup fails to succeed (exit code 2) it will sent an alert to your pager. In case you know that the backup usually takes let’s say half an hour, you might want to get informed every time it takes longer than that, as it usually means either system slowdown or a possible database before image file growing.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication TCP/IP port monitoring example – OE Management can keep an aye on whether your socket program or service is still listening on the port, thus running, like for example SonicMQ.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication Not only for monitoring – but also to modify properties of all OpenEdge resources (database, unified brokers, nameserver ..)

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication OE Management on a dedicated server avoids memory consumption on a production machine gives a better maintenance window Set monitoring and trending interval right keep an eye only on what you need Monitor your OE Management installation “dead man tells no tales” It’s becoming more and more common practice to install OE Management on a dedicated machine and use its remote functionally to monitor what is needed. With a large number of resources, Management can get a bit greedy on a memory consumption especially with java 1.5, which you might not want to see on your production server. Also in case of Management is getting stuck, hanging or otherwise failing, its restart or maintenance won’t affect your production and the other way around – if you bring your production server down, Management will be still running and monitoring the rest of your environment. It is also important to decide what resources and how frequently to monitor. It makes sense to check your production database every 5 minutes (which is a default monitoring value), but it’s probably not necessary to choose the same for your QA environment. Last, but not least – hopefully y’all now monitor all your environment using OE Management, which was the goal of this talk, so keep in mind that now y’all rely on OE Management notifications to be informed or to take a corrective action. If your mail server gets stuck or Management hangs, there will be no information about it.

OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication OpenEdge Replication Progress DR & HA solution Reporting solution requires extra license Allows replication of one (source) to 1 or 2 (target) databases requires at least WGP license requires AI and TCP/IP

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Principal TSE, Progress Software Corporation Libor Laubacher Principal TSE, Progress Software Corporation llaubach@progress.com