Deploying Web Applications on different JEE Application Servers

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This post will discuss how to deploy BeanSpy on the supported application server platforms.  The deployment information in step #2 can also be applied to any general web application (example: the Contoso Order Service).

Step #1) Get the WAR/EAR files

As per the documentation, to obtain the official version of BeanSpy supported by Microsoft, the EAR/WAR files (open source link is here).

a. If you have at least one JEE application server automatically discovered by Operations Manager, go to Operations Console, select an automatically discovered JEE application server instance, and run the task "Copy BeanSpy and Universal discovery files" in the Tasks pane. This will copy the BeanSpy files to the %WINDIR%\temp folder.

b. Search the Operations Manager installation folder for BeanSpy*. For example, if Operations Manager is installed under "C:\Program Files\System Center 2012\Operations Manager", BeanSpy files are located in one of the folders under C :\Program Files\System Center 2012\Operations Manager\Server\Health Service State\Resources\ as of this writing.

There should be four BeanSpy files:

  •      BeanSpy.HTTP.NoAuth.ear
  •      BeanSpy.HTTP.NoAuth.war
  •      BeanSpy.ear
  •      BeanSpy.war

If your application server listens on HTTP without authentication, then follow these steps. Otherwise, please refer to your application server's monitoring pack guide for details about security settings.

c. Rename BeanSpy.HTTP.NoAuth.war (or .ear) to BeanSpy.war (or .ear).

d. If you are running JBoss/WebSphere/WebLogic, deploy the .ear version. If you are running Tomcat, deploy the .war version. You can deploy BeanSpy just like any other ear/war files.  

Step #2) Deployment

 Below are steps and links for deploying web applications on the various Application Server platforms.

Deployment on JBoss

JBoss utilizes a hot deployment folder.  To deploy an application, simply copy the WAR file into the <JBOSS Directory>\server\<type>\deploy folder. 

C:\jboss-x.x.x\server\default\deploy\

Deployment on Tomcat

Like JBoss, Tomcat utilizes a hot deployment folder.  To deploy an application, simply copy the WAR file into the <Tomcat Directory>\webapps folder.

C:\apache-tomcat-x.x.x\webapps\

Log output from a successful Tomcat deployment:

 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR 
 INFO: Deploying web application archive BeanSpy.war 
 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM com.interopbridges.scx.log.MsLogger info 
 INFO: Initializing BeanSpy (Build: 7.3.2034.0, Label: OpsMgr_RTM_7.3.2034.0, BuildDate: 20120106)  
 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM com.interopbridges.scx.log.MsLogger info 
 INFO: contextInitialized: connecting to JMX Stores 
 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM com.interopbridges.scx.log.MsLogger warning 
 WARNING: Failed to connect to com.interopbridges.scx.jmx.JBossJMXAbstraction JMX Store 
 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM com.interopbridges.scx.log.MsLogger info 
 INFO: Added JMX Store adapter com.interopbridges.scx.jmx.TomcatJMXAbstraction 
 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM com.interopbridges.scx.log.MsLogger warning 
 WARNING: Failed to connect to com.interopbridges.scx.jmx.WebSphereJMXAbstraction JMX Store 
 Apr 26, 2012 11:28:00 AM com.interopbridges.scx.log.MsLogger warning 
 WARNING: Failed to connect to com.interopbridges.scx.jmx.WeblogicRuntimeJMXAbstraction JMX Store

Deployment on WebSphere

Deployment of an EAR file on WebSphere requires use of either the WebSphere Admin UI or the scripting API. Since this is a multi-step process, I will defer to some other specific postings.

Deployment on WebLogic

WebLogic has many ways to deploy a web application.  I would defer you to Oracle's documentation, but I am having problems navigating
to what I would like to find.  :) Try this blog post instead…