Automating Workload AE and DE; Agent Deployment and Configuration

Automating Workload AE and DE; Agent Deployment and Configuration

Dan Herrington

MFX12S #CAWorld

Robert Mark TechnologiesChief Operating Officer

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Abstract

The new Workload Agent added features to platforms like Workload Automation AE and expanded functionality on Workload Automation DE. It also introduced a new problem however, management of configuration files across 100’s, 1000’s, and sometimes tens of thousands of Servers. We will step through a solution to this operational problem.

Daniel Herrington

Robert Mark Technologies

Chief Operating Officer


Agenda

THE AGENT MANAGEMENT PROBLEM

AN INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTION

CONTINUED OPERATIONAL MAINTENANCE

BUILDING THE DEPLOYMENT PACKAGE

BUILDING THE MANAGEMENT CLASS

DEPLOYING THROUGH QA AND PRODUCTION

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The Agent Management Problem

Heterogeneous environments– Multiple OS platforms

Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, i5, z/OS

– Multiple Applications

J2EE, Informatica, PeopleSoft, SAP®, Cognos, FTP

All mean multiple configuration files on the order of 100’s, 1000’s or in some cases tens of thousands of machines.

How do we rollout 800 Workload agents and ensure cookie cutter configuration?


An Infrastructure Solution

Puppet Enterprise enables Workload Admins to deploy and maintain standardized infrastructure– Development WA environment is used to build install packages

Puppet automatically deploys to higher environments based on Development ENV templates

– Defining nodes ensures standardized configurations

Agent nodes, FTP Nodes, SAP nodes, etc.

Leveraging DevOps tools to resolve the Agent Management Problem

DevOps tools are designed to handle these exact use cases


An Infrastructure Solution

Puppet Enterprise enables Workload Admins to deploy and maintain standardized infrastructure– Eliminates configuration drift

Puppet reverts all unauthorized changes to the Workload Automation infrastructure to the pre-defined node definition.

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DevOps tools are designed to handle these exact use cases


Setup

Task Tools Requirements

Build package Shell scriptCA System Agent installation media

Build Puppet System Agent Module Puppet Enterprise Text Editor

Deploy System Agent Puppet EnterpriseInstalled Puppet

Enterprise Master and Agent machines

Update agentparm.txt Puppet Enterprise Text Editor


RPM

Ran into issue with calling RPM within CA installers RPM

Created self extracting archive wrapping CA installer


Puppet Module

A Puppet Module is a self-contained bundle of code and data.– In this case it enables Puppet

to identify System Agent nodes.


Deploy System Agent

Development package completes– Push System Agent to QA

environment


SummaryThe capabilities of the System Agent mean different configuration files across different types of servers (Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows, z/OS, i5, etc.).

Solution

By leveraging an infrastructure management tool like Puppet Enterprise, one can manage the deployment of the System Agent to ensure a standardized Workload Automation environment. Administrators can then use Puppet to simplify patching and management of the multiple agentparm.txt files that are deployed.


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