Monitoring in GlassFish v3 has taken a huge leap when compared to the earlier versions. We provide a way to dynamically and non-intrusively generate monitoring events from any of the glassfish runtime classes, the ability to listen to these events, collect the statistics and expose these statistics through various standard clients.[Read More]
Friday Aug 21, 2009
Thursday Jan 24, 2008
Want to win an IPhone?
You can win an IPhone with two easy steps.
1) Download the feature rich and enterprise ready GlassFish Application Server
2) Register the product
You could refer a friend and if he wins the prize, then you get the prize as a referee. Improve your chances to win an IPhone by referring more friends.
Anissa has a great screencast to show you in detail on how to download and register the GlassFish Application Server.
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You can win an IPhone with two easy steps.
1) Download the feature rich and enterprise ready GlassFish Application Server
2) Register the product
You could refer a friend and if he wins the prize, then you get the prize as a referee. Improve your chances to win an IPhone by referring more friends.
Anissa has a great screencast to show you in detail on how to download and register the GlassFish Application Server.
[Read More]
Thursday Jan 10, 2008
The article on 'Provisioning Sun Java System Application Server with
N1SPS' is coauthored by me and is published at this link.
This article covers extensively about the different aspects of the
features of the N1SPS plugin for Sun Java System Application Server.
Monday Oct 22, 2007
We have seen from other blogs with regards to how to manage the remote installations of Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 (productized version of GlassFish V2) using the N1SPS plugin for Application Server.
In this blog I will show you how to identify and absorb an existing installation of GlassFish V2 on a remote machine and manage it with N1SPS plugin.
This is particularly useful with GlassFish V2 which doesn't have a silent installer that could be used inline with N1SPS to do a remote installation. In order to get over this limitation, you need to either use the Sun Java System Application server 9.1 (Again the productized version of GlassFish V2) or do a manual install of the GlassFish V2 itself and then follow the instructions in this blog.
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Monday Oct 08, 2007
In this blog we will look at some of the Application Server Infrastructure tasks which involves the administration of Application server components (Domain, Cluster, Node Agent and Instance).[Read More]
Take a look at the article written by Kedar, Myself and Rick which talks about Clustering in GlassFish V2. This article talks about Clustering in GlassFish, Failover with in-memory session state replication (new feature in GlassFish V2), Domain Administration Architecture, Group Management Service and Load Balancer Plug-in. This article will help you to get started with deploying your applications to a GlassFish cluster.[Read More]
Thursday Oct 04, 2007
The Application Server Plugin allows you to install High Availability Database (HADB) on a Target host(s), its also required to associate this installation with an existing DAS. User can start and stop the HADB agent, uninstall and uninstall (markOnly) the HADB. It will also allow youto view the list of HADB's installed.[Read More]
The Application Server Plugin allows you to install, install (markOnly), uninstall and uninstall (markOnly) the Load Balancer Plugin for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 and 7.0 versions. You can also view the list of LB Plugin Installations. Here we will take a look on how to use the N1SPS Application Server Plugin to Install and Uninstall the Load Balancer Plugin.
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My earlier blog gave an overview with some scenarios about the Application Server Plugin for N1 Service Provisioning System. Here we will deep dive to see more about the Application Server Plugin.[Read More]
Monday Sep 17, 2007
In my previous blog I discussed about how to provision the GlassFish V2 Application Server with the Application Server Plugin 6.0 for N1 Service Provisioning System (N1SPS). Here we will see how to use the N1SPS Command Line Interface (CLI) to automate the Application Server Plugin (AS Plugin) tasks.[Read More]
Sunday Sep 16, 2007
No matter how many efforts the team has put into making managing GlassFish v2 deployments easier, there will always be a point where some users (service providers or anyone else doing massive deployments) would like some extra help. This is where the N1 Service Provisioning System comes to the rescue. The idea is to help manage hundreds of hosts spread across many geographic locations by provisioning the software - describing it once, deploying it many times. Installing the bits, configuring the product (creating resources), and deploying applications to it can all be taken care of by N1 SPS. This same product can provision just about anything else your architecture requires - database, web servers, etc...
This blog gives an overview of N1 Service Provisioning System (N1SPS) Plugin (version 6.0) for Sun Java System Application Server (Productized version of GlassFish V2). This has detailed instructions with some scenarios on how the Application Server plugin works.[Read More]
Wednesday Sep 12, 2007
You must have seen many blogs talking about the different parts of configuring a load balancer that will work with GlassFish V2. This blog is an effort to put that content together to create a scenario which you can try and which will work.
This document covers the various options in terms of replication and load-balancing using either software (web servers) or hardware solutions. It also touches more advanced topics such as establishing a secure connection between the DAS (Domain Admin Server) and the web server.[Read More]
Tuesday Sep 04, 2007
This blog discusses the efforts put to bring the startup and shutdown time of GlassFish v2 (DAS, single instance or entire cluster) to the best (smallest) possible number. The improvements are broken into modules.[Read More]
Saturday May 19, 2007
There was some interest from people visiting glassfish booth at this years Javaone, on how to use F5 Networks BIG-IP system with Glassfish. This blog explains on how to do this.[Read More]
Wednesday May 02, 2007
With the experience of working on Load balancer administration of
glassfish, I can say the glassfish has Best in Class Load balancer
administration. Reasons being
- Enhanced GUI capability and CLI commands to administer the LB configuration (Easy to use with a single command and single GUI page).
- Configuration changes can be pushed from DAS (Glassfish's Domain Administration Server) to Load Balancer automatically (pushed when events like deploy/undeploy/create/ delete-instance etc., occur). This can be achieved by setting up a SSL connection between DAS and load balancer. This will avoid the manual copying of loadbalancer.xml to the WebServer location.
- The monitoring data about load balancer can also be obtained,
once SSL is setup (Currently we support this with AMX interface, the
next release will have CLI and Admin Console support). More about this
at Satish's
Blog
- Support for Rolling Upgrade.
- Enhanced the LB configuration on glassfish to support LB policy (round robin, weighted and user defined) and configuration of weights for the glassfish Instances.
Author: Prashanth Abbagani