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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. OpenEdge 10.2B, OE Management & Replication
Reports

20. 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 – , pager, text message or you can simply check it online, which brings me to a next slide.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

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

25. 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.

26. 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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28. Question Time

29. Principal TSE, Progress Software Corporation
Libor Laubacher
Principal TSE, Progress Software Corporation