Understanding Command Central
Software AG Command Central is a tool that enables you to manage your Software AG products remotely from one location.
If you have existing product installations that were created using the Software AG Installer, you can connect Command Central to those product installations, organize them into development, test, and production environments, and then quickly begin to operate and monitor product instances. You can also operate and monitor instance components, which are independent modules that run within an instance but have their own configurable elements (for example, the Task Client Support package (WmTaskClient) is a component on Integration Server). You can do the following operation and monitoring tasks:
Compare configurations across installations and environments.
Change status (for example, start, stop, pause, or resume).
View key performance indicators (KPIs) and alerts.
You can create product and fix repositories from which to install products and fixes onto remote machines.
You can manage product installations by creating and configuring instances and installing fixes and support patches.
You can install products and then create product instances and database components. Later, you can upgrade the products and migrate the database components.
You can create license usage and compliance reports.
Command Central offers a browser-based user interface, but you can also automate tasks using Command Central, as follows:
Develop
composite templates that define an environment using domain specific language (CC DSL), and then let
Command Central perform all necessary operations to bring environments to the defined state. Templates define a
Software AG stack with installations, products, fixes, instances, and configurations. You can use templates for use cases such as:
Provisioning new development, test, and production environments on empty host machines.
Updating existing environments with new fixes, instances, configurations, and files.
Upgrading and migrating environments installations to the latest product redeleases.
Use
Command Central commands to remotely execute actions from a terminal or custom script (for example, CI servers such as Jenkins or generic configuration management tools such as Puppet or Chef).
Use the
Command Central REST API to integrate
Command Central with your existing tools and processes, such as monitoring systems.
This release of Command Central can manage Software AG products that are release 9.0 or later. Software AG recommends using the latest release of Command Central with your 9.0 or later products, so you can access the latest features available. See the Software AG Command Central Feature Support Matrix for the list of products you can manage using Command Central and the features that are supported for each release of those products. If you have an earlier release of Command Central, you can upgrade to the latest release even if you are not upgrading your products.
