Compelling Events for Automation• Middleware Upgrades It’s great when new vendors

bring out new features - but often taking advantage of them takes a good deal of time and effort to upgrade the new infrastructure - and introduces risk. Automating the upgrade project speeds it up, reduces the risk and builds a more manageable platform in the future.

• Migrating off ‘Premium Product’ With the economy as it is, more organizations are forced to tighten their belts, and one area that has come under particular scrutiny is the annual cost of maintaining installed software. Some organizations have made the decision to move less business critical applications off more

expensive middleware onto open-source platforms such as JBoss and Tomcat. This type of project is accelerated when it’s automated and an automation tool makes managing hybrid or heterogeneous environments much easier.

• Building a PAAS or a private cloud With pressure on businesses to deliver more innovation to their customers, faster, we see many of our customers building Platforms As A Service and private clouds. These are a lot faster and quicker to set up using an automation tool, and a lot quicker to manage demand once they are up and running.

• Core business application upgrades or migrations Many of our customers occasionally need to upgrade or even replace their core business applications - often complex, multi-layered, integrated systems that have evolved over time and have many integration points and are absolutely critical to the minute by minute operations of the business. Using an automation tool can reduce the risk and time associated with such a project.

• Platform migrations Sometimes it’s time to move from one platform to another - for instance, customers sometimes feel that a UNIX based platform will offer them performance advantages over an OS400 platform. But moving hundreds of middleware applications might seem like a challenge too far - without automation.

• Rearchitecting Change is a constant and businesses need to continually evolve their IT infrastructure and operations, build new environments for things like Disaster Recovery and automating the build and deployment of these new environments means delivering them faster.

Scripts Insights• This plugin allows you to manage scripts on

target servers. You can snapshot a scripts directory, by giving the top level directory path and a set of filesets to include/exclude for both configuration and binary files. This snapshot set of files can be compared over time (comparison of checksums for the binary filesets) to determine configuration drifts.

• The scripts can be templated and parameterised using environment specific data dictionary files and packaged up for deployment to other targets, thus enabling scripts files to be stored in the SCM tool on the framework server, managed centrally and deployed out to target servers just as you would for code.

• The scripts can be run from the deployment package or from a target managed location as part of the deployment job, or run as a separate scripts execution job.

RApIddEploy™ plugIn foR SCRIptS

Rapiddeploy™ provides organizations with Application Release Automation capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure compliance. there is a range of plugins available to extend the core automation framework capabilities to most available platforms and perform integrations throughout the devops toolchain. this datasheet refers to the Scripts plugin.

Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com.

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Scripts plugin overviewThe RapidDeploy™ Scripts plugin allows the user to deploy and or run any script on Windows or any flavour of Unix/Linux. For example Shell, Perl, Ant, bat files. Any command line parameters may be set, to different values in different environments if required. Any environment variables used by the script may be set for each target environment and referenced from the target environments shell or dynamically set in the shell from an environment variables file that can be stored in the software configuration management tool. The scripts may be deployed to the target server and run, or run directly from the server. Scripts can be stored in the user’s software configuration management tool so that updates to scripts can automatically be deployed to target environments via releases similar to those you already do for code.

If you use software that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using RapidDeploy™ please email sales@midvision.com with the details. For future versions, we aim to have support within two quarters of the vendor announcing general availability, although customer demand can accelerate our development roadmap.

Rapiddeploy™ pluginsThe RapidDeploy™ plugins extend the functionality of the core automation framework and are categorised in the following way:

• Toolchain plugins enabling integration with Build Engines, Artifact repositories and Source Control Management tools

• Transport plugins enabling use of SSH and Agent capability

• Target plugins enabling connectivity with broad range of Middleware Applications and Databases

• Cloud plugins enabling connectivity to cloud providers

• Business Intelligence plugins to extend the CAF including for example, enhanced comparison functionality and additional reporting capabilities

plugins ship with:• A Library of commonly used tasks

• Wizards & extensive help information

• Predefined automation library elements

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Want this plugin? getting hold of it’s easy - either:1) Go to the Plugin Manager in your installation of RapidDeploy™ and pick your plugin from the list or

2) Go to www.midvision.com > Support > Downloads > RapidDeploy Plugin Downloads and select your plugin from there. If you have any problems, please call or email your MidVision Account Manager.

You must license your plugin separately - please speak to your MidVision Account Manager or email sales@midvision.com. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com.