Command Central server setup

This project automates Command Central setup:

• Downloads latest fix level bootstrap installer for your platform
• Runs bootstrap installer
• Configures HTTP/S proxy
• Registers master repositories
• Registers license keys
• Uploads product and fix images
• Creates mirror repositories
• Imports default templates library

You can also use this project to maintain your Command Central installation:

• Pull the latest fixes and products into mirror repositories
• Update Command Central to the latest patch level
• Upgrade Command Central to a new release (from 9.x)
• Start/stop/restart Command Central
• Check jobs status and tail the logs
• Apply default and custom templates

Build and Test status of default branches

AppVeyor (Windows)	Travis CI (Linux / macOS)

Requirements

• Git client
• Internet access
• Java 1.8
• Apache Ant 1.9+

Verify Java and Ant installation by running:

java -version # MUST be 1.8+
ant -version  # MUST be 1.9+

Quick Start

IMPORTANT: make sure you clone the repository with submodules by using --recursive switch:

git clone --recursive -b release/105oct2019 https://github.com/SoftwareAG/sagdevops-cc-server
cd sagdevops-cc-server

Perform default setup:

IMPORTANT: by setting accept.license=true property you are accepting End User License Agreement

ant boot -Daccept.license=true
ant up test

When the process completes successfully open Command Central Web UI and login as Administrator/manage.

For a customization process follow the steps below.

How to customize setup process

Fork the project

Fork the project and clone it locally:

git clone --recursive -b release/105oct2019 https://github.com/YOURCCOUNT/sagdevops-cc-server
cd sagdevops-cc-server

Customizing version, installation directory, ports and Administrator password

You can customize configuration for the bootstrap process.

Copy bootstrap/default.properties into a new YOUR_BOOT_NAME.properties file. Uncomment the following property to accept the license agreement:

accept.license=true

Review and modify any other properties as needed.

Run bootstrap process using the customized properties file:

ant boot -Dbootstrap=YOUR_BOOT_NAME

The downloaded bootstrap installer file will be reused (not downloaded again).

NOTE: most of the properties are applicable only for a new bootstrap session. If you previously bootstraped Command Central they will NOT apply until you uninstall first

ant uninstall boot

Configuring Proxy

If you have direct connection to the Internet you can skip this step.

If you have a proxy server copy environments/default/env.properties into a new environments/YOUR_ENV_NAME/env.properties file and update it with your HTTP/S proxy configuration:

proxy.http.host=YOURPROXYHOST
proxy.http.port=8080
proxy.http.nonproxyhosts=localhost|.my.domain

Then run:

ant proxy -Denv=YOUR_ENV_NAME

or:

export CC_ENV=YOUR_ENV_NAME
ant proxy

Registering master repositories for products and fixes

If this Command Central does not have access to the Internet you can skip this step.

IMPORTANT: Your gateway or development Command Central should have access to the Internet.

To register master repositories Command Central needs your Empower credentials with permissions to download products and fixes.

Run this command to enter the credentials and store them in Command Central:

ant credentials

Register all Software AG master repositories in Command Central:

ant masters

Verify successful master repositories setup:

ant test

Importing license keys

If you can skip this step if you plan on adding your license keys for each individual project, however it is recommended to add all your license keys now.

Replace sample licenses/licenses.zip with your licenses.zip archive.

You can customize the location of the licenses archive in environments/YOUR_ENV_NAME/env.properties by setting this property:

licenses.zip.url=http://url/to/licenses.zip

IMPORTANT: the structure of the licenses.zip is not important. Command Central will introspect the archive and import found licences with auto generated aliases.

Run this command to import license files:

ant licenses -Denv=YOUR_ENV_NAME

You can run this command again any time to add upload new license keys.

Adding product and fix images

You can skip this step if you're planning to use only master and mirror repositories.

Use of image repositories is discouraged.

If you want to upload SAG Installer images to Command Central place the image .zip files under ./images/products folder.

If you want to upload SAG Update Manager images place the image .zip files under ./images/fixes folder.

You can customize the location of the images folder in environments/YOUR_ENV_NAME/env.properties by setting this property:

images.dir=/path/to/images/

IMPORTANT: the structure of the images.dir folder must be the following:

products\
    my-9.12-products-lnxamd64.zip
    my-9.12-products-w64.zip
fixes\
    my-9.12-fixes.zip
    my-9.10-fixes.zip

Run this command to upload image files:

ant images -Denv=YOUR_ENV_NAME

You can run this command again any time to add upload new images.

Creating mirror repositories

You should create mirror repositories to improve provisioning performance.

NOTE: this process may take a long time and requires up to 10GB of space on average per release if you mirror all products.

You can customize which release and which products/fixes to mirror using environments/YOUR_ENV_NAME/env.properties by setting these properties:

release=10.1
# from
mirror.repo.product=webMethods-${release}
mirror.repo.fix=Empower
# which products
mirror.products=productId1,productId2,...
# which platforms
mirror.platforms=W64,LNXAMD64,OSX
# hosting spm URL
mirror.spm=http://CCHOST:8092

TIP: To find out product ids, open Command Central Web UI, webMethods-${release} repository content view and tick Show ID Column checkbox in the gear menu.

To start mirrors create or update process run:

ant mirrors -Denv=YOUR_ENV_NAME

NOTE: fix mirror will download fixes only for the products in your product mirror repository.

You can run this command again any time to pull the latest products/fixes from the upstream repos.

Commit your changes to version control system

IMPORTANT: To ensure your entire customized setup runs cleanly perform end-to-end run:

Adjust 'up' target in build.xml with the targets that are applicable to your setup and run:

export CC_BOOT=YOUR_BOOT_NAME
export CC_ENV=YOUR_ENV_NAME

ant uninstall boot
ant up test

NOTE: uninstall target is currently NOT supported on Windows

The successful test run will end with something like this:

[au:antunit] Environment configuration: environments/test/env.properties
[au:antunit] ------------- ---------------- ---------------
[au:antunit] Target: test-repos-master-prods took 1.103 sec
[au:antunit] Target: test-repos-master-fixes took 1.092 sec
[au:antunit] Target: test-repos-master-fixes-listing took 10.117 sec
[au:antunit] Target: test-repos-master-prods-listing took 48.337 sec

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 41 minutes 27 seconds

Commit your changes to your target version control system, e.g. forked project on GitHub or internal git repo.

git commit -am 'customizations'
git push

Setting up CI process

Clone default or forked project from GitHub and perform identical fully automated setup of your customized Command Central server:

export CC_BOOT=YOUR_BOOT_NAME
export CC_ENV=YOUR_ENV_NAME

export EMPOWER_USR=you@company.com
export EMPOWER_PSW=*****

ant boot
ant up test

See examples of CI configuration files:

• Jenkins
• Travis CI
• Appveyor CI

Launching Command Central Docker container

The fastest way to get Command Central up and running is to launch Docker container from the Docker Store.

IMPORTANT: Please see sagdevops-hello-docker for getting started instructions.

EMPOWER_USR=you@company.com \
EMPOWER_PSW=**** \
docker-compose run --rm init

To setup mirrors run:

docker-compose run --rm init ant mirrors

Creating staging environments on Software AG network

You can setup pre-released software staging environments if you have access to Software AG network.

On Linux and Mac OS:

export CC_BOOT=staging
export CC_ENV=staging
export CC_VERSION=10.3-fix1

export EMPOWER_USR=you@softwareag.com
export EMPOWER_PSW=*****

export SAG_AQUARIUS=aquarius-dae.eur.ad.sag
export CC_INSTALLER_URL=http://aquarius-dae.eur.ad.sag/PDShare/cc

# for clean boxes, bootstrap antcc
# antcc/bootstrap/install.sh
# . ~/.bash_profile || . ~/.profile

ant boot
ant up staging test

On Windows:

set CC_BOOT=staging
set CC_ENV=staging
set CC_VERSION=10.5-fix4

set EMPOWER_USR=you@softwareag.com
set EMPOWER_PSW=*****

set SAG_AQUARIUS=aquarius-dae.eur.ad.sag
set CC_INSTALLER_URL=http://aquarius-dae.eur.ad.sag/PDShare/cc

# for clean boxes, bootstrap ant+antcc
# .\antcc\bootstrap\install.ps1

ant boot
ant up staging test

On Docker:

CC_REG=daerepository03.eur.ad.sag:4443/ccdevops \
EMPOWER_USR=you@company.com \
EMPOWER_PSW=**** \
CC_ENV=staging \
docker-compose run --rm init staging

Cleanup

Uninstall Command Central.

On Linux run:

ant uninstall -Dbootstrap=YOUR_BOOT_NAME

NOTE: uninstall target is currently NOT supported on Windows

On Docker:

docker-compose down

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These tools are provided as-is and without warranty or support. They do not constitute part of the webMethods product suite. Users are free to use, fork and modify them, subject to the license agreement. While we welcome contributions, we cannot guarantee to include every contribution in the master project.