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NXTminder: Managing CORBA, RPC and DCE applications

NXTminder is a tool for managing the configuration, deployment and automated execution of distributed applications on the Grid. Whenever you deploy Enterprise applications in different environments with a commercial ORB or middleware, you need to make sure that your applications operate properly in each environment and can be managed remotely. To effectively manage distributed applications, you need to have a real-time management console to monitor these applications on each platform. In addition, you need the ability to start and stop these applications automatically, provide a mechanism to replicate services and scale them up during peak load times. NXTminder provides this console interface and simplifies the process for operations staff with easy to recognize indicators for application status. A maintenance interface is also provided for maintenance activities and development of configurations. 

NXTminder also interfaces with NXTware IME for a seamless Eclipse-based software engineering environment designed to make RPC, DCE and CORBA easier to manage and more cost effective to maintain and integrate.

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Management Challenges

Distributed applications, by definition, operate in different environments and can interface with disparate applications in many different languages and databases. Distributed applications are much more difficult to manage because they work in a complex multi-tiered environment with dependencies on different software services. Since services can be deployed to many different computers across an entire network, it is not possible for an operator to monitor the system processes on one server. It is possible to have multiple copies (and versions) of the sample component located on different computers providing backup This deployment configuration complexity has forced IT organizations to develop an infrastructure that gets harder to manage as the network grows. For instance, the manual steps for creating a configuration for a distributed application's deploying services requires an experience systems administrator.  It is definitely more complex than it should be.

NXTminder provides configurations for each service for start and stop times, retries, dependencies on other systems, CORBA, RPC, DCE and SOA architecture support.

Features and benefits

NXTminder delivers:

  • Automated-start of distributed applications
  • Centralized console for configuration and viewing application status
  • Customized configurations per environment for starting and stopping services
  • Load balancing capability
  • Server redundancy and backup
  • Scalability based on configuration parameters
  • Timers for start and stop times, retries
  • Integration with other application monitors
  • Dynamic status updates on services
  • Support for Windows, Linux, OpenVMS and UNIX OS.

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