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BestPractices:EnablingCAWorkloadAutomationDEArtifactstoMoveApplicationsThroughtheDevelopmentLifecycleJohnRooney,Sr.PrincipalConsultant,CATechnologies

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Abstract

AsCAWorkloadAutomationDE(CAWLADE)userstakeadvantageofpre-

productionenvironmentstotestouttheirjobflows,ithasbecomemore

importanttobeabletoabletomigratetheCAWLADEartifactsfromDevto

productionwithaslittlemanualinterventionaspossible.Thistalkwilldiscussthe

strategiesandtoolstousetocreateanautomatedprocesstomigrateyourCA

WLADEartifactsthroughthelifecycleprocess.

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Agenda

MULTIPLEENVIRONMENTSANDSTANDARDS

USEOFSYMBOLICS

LEVERAGINGJAVASCRIPTS

IMEXUTIL – IMPORT/EXPORTUTILITY

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DecisiontouseyourEnterpriseWorkloadproductornot?

§ Istheapplicationbusinesscritical?

§ Doestheapplicationhaveabusinessimpacton:– Revenue– Service– Customer

Yes.ThenyouneedtousetheEnterpriseWorkloadsolution

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OnceyouhaveaProductionWorkloadinstance,whatisthevalueofaPre-Productioninstance?§ Itisusedtoprotectproduction

– Minimizespotentialforproductionfailureoroutage– Testingofapplicationflowsbeforeproduction– TestingofApplicationIntegrationsinpre-prodenablesbetter

EnterpriseWorkloadusageandvisibility– PartofaDevOpsimplementationstrategy

§ TestingofCAWLADEserverupgradesandfixes

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PotentialissueswithmultipleCAWLADEinstances

§ Manualefforttomigrateartifactsfromoneinstancetoanother– ManualefforttochangevalueslikeargumentsintheApplicationsand

Jobs– ChangeEventnamesandschedulingfrequencies

§ Hardtokeepartifactsinsyncwithoutnamingstandards

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PotentialissueswithusingasingleCAWLADEinstances

§ Hardertokeeplogicalseparation

§ Applicationnameshavetobeuniquewithinaninstance– YoucannothavedifferentactiveversionsofthesameApplication

nameatthesametime– Needtochangeapplicationnames(likeaddingasuffix)toenable

multipleapplicationswithinthesameCAWLADEinstance

§ Hardertomaintainsecurityprofiles

§ Namingstandardsareamust!

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ValueofcreatingNamingstandards

§ Easiertocategorizeartifactsforsearchingpurposes

§ Easiertodetermineownershiporresponsibility

§ Easiertocreateandonboardnewapplications

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ValueofcreatingNamingstandards

§ Easiertocreateand/orclonesecurityrules

§ EasiertosubscribeinMonitoring– SubscriptiononlyallowsasingleApplicationFilter

§ EnablemovingapplicationsthroughadevelopmentlifecycleaspartofyourDevops strategy– Minimizeoreliminatemanualchangesbetweenstages

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SuggestionsforCAWLADEArtifactNamingStandards

§ AshortBusinessApplicationnamecanbeveryusefulasaprefixforCAWLADEartifacts

§ Eventnamesshouldbeanindependentnameandnotassociatedwitharealuserid– ExampleDEV,TEST,PROD

§ AnothersuggestionforEventnamesistouseacustomernameordistributioncenternamewhenyouareusinganApplicationasaTemplateforamanytooneexecution– ExampleDC1,DC2,DC3

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CAWLADEArtifactswherethebusinessapplicationnamecanbeusedasaprefix§ Event– EVENT_PREFIX. prefix_APPLICATION_NAME

§ Application– prefix_APPLICATION_NAME– RuntimenamecanoverridethesavedApplicationname

§ Resources- prefix_D/R/T_RESOURCE_NAME

§ SecurityGroup- prefix_GROUP

§ GlobalVariableContext

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CAWLADEArtifactswherethebusinessapplicationnamemakessenseasaprefixfornon-commonartifacts§ Alerts- prefix_ALERT_NAME

§ JavaScripts - prefix_JAVASCRIPT_NAME

§ CalendarSpecialDays- prefix_SPECIAL_DAY

§ AgentGroup- prefix_Agent_group

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SampleSecuritysettingforAppsdev inPre-prod

§ DenySUBSCRIBEALL– Helpswithperformance

§ AllowanyEventPrefix– Lessmaintenancebyallowing

userstousetheirownuseridastheprefixforevents

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StaticVariables– ESPprefixedJavaScriptexecutedatEventLevel(maynotbenecessary)

§ Environmentname/prefix

§ Hostname/Port

§ Serverhomedirectory

§ CAWLADEServerID

§ Database/FTPUserids

§ Symlib JavaScriptforDefaultSymbolics

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DynamicVariables– APPLandWOBprefixedJavaScriptexecutedattheApplicationorJobLevel

§ Dates

§ Agents

§ Directories/paths

§ Databaseservers

§ Emailids

§ Times/SLAs/Criticaljobs

§ Notifications

§ Jobname/qualifier

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SampleJavaScripttocreatedatesymbolics invariousformats

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SampleDefaultGlobalVariableContext§ UsingaJavaScriptorGlobalVariableContextenablesbeing

abletochangeallinstancesatonetime– LeavetheApplicationsalone– Couldhaveseparationofdutiesforupdatingvalues

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WaystominimizeoreliminatechangeswhilemovingthroughthelifecycleusingJavaScripts§ DefinedefaultcontextwithstaticvariablesdefinedintheEvent

– MaynotneedtomovetheEventthoughthelifecycle

§ DefinedynamicvariablesinaJavaScriptdefinedintheApplicationatEventTriggertime– Datesymbolics forpast,presentandfuturedates

§ EmbedJavascripts inthejobdefinition– Forvaluesthatneedtobesetjustbeforethejobisexecuted

§ InvokeRepositorybasedJavaScripts forgenericfunctions

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Waystominimizeoreliminatechangeswhilemovingthroughthelifecycle§ TrytomakeitsothatonlytheApplicationneedstobe

migrated– UselinksforAPPLSTARTandAPPLENDasfunctionstoexecute

JavaScripts toset-upotherjobsandtokeeptheApplicationasself-sufficientaspossible

§ %IFfunctioninvariousjobdefinitionfields– Canenabledecisionmakingforaparticularjobfield

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Waystominimizeoreliminatechangeswhilemovingthroughthelifecycle§ %IFfunctioninvariousjobdefinitionfields

§ Createapplicationstandardsfordeployingapplications– Standarddirectorynamesinpre-prodandprodwillminimizetheneed

forcreatingexceptionsymbolics

§ UnixandLinuxareinterchangeablejobtypes– CantestwithaUnixagentbutactuallyuseLinuxinproduction

§ Useagentgroupingoragentalias– Randomorroundrobin– Don’thavetospecifythe“real”agentname

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LeveragingAgentAlias

§ DonotneedtodefinetherealagentnameintheCAWLADEtopologytouseaparticularagent

§ Anagentaliascanbeset-upforanyreasonandforanypurpose– CApre-salesroutinelyusesaliasestomimiccustomer’sagents– Multiplealiasescanbeset-uponanagent

§ Coulduseproductionagentnamesforpre-prodagents

§ Whenretiringanagent,canbeaneasywaytoswitchagentswithoutchangingjobdefinitionsimmediately

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IMEXUTIl – Import/ExportUtility

§ Usefulasawayofexportingallartifactsasanotherwayofbackinguptheinstance– Restoreanindividualartifactwithouthavingtorestoreawholedatabase

§ Createasoftwarechangeprocessfromapre-prodinstancetoaproductioninstance

§ Caution:ifCAWLADEinstancesaredifferentreleases,maynotbeabletobeused– Releasedependent(doesnotapplytoSPreleases)

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ExportinganApplicationTriggerandPassApplicationnameasUser1forexecutionfromexternalChangeManagementproduct

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ImportinganApplicationTriggerandPassApplicationnameasUser1forexecutionfromexternalChangeManagementproduct

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ApplicationParameterscanbeusedwithaTemplateApplication§ Canexecutedynamicallybywebservices§ Canexecuteanapplicationandpass

manymorethanfourparameterstoit

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ExecutingaTemplateApplicationusingWebServices

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Summary

§ SomeupfrontnamingconventionscanhelpoutlaterwhenplanningforApplicationlifecyclemanagement

§ LeverageJavaScripts andGlobalvariablesforCAWLADEinstancerelatedsymbolics

§ IMEXUTILcanbeveryusefulformanagingtheactualmovementofartifactsfrompre-prodtoprod

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