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NXTware Remote Advanced Development and Maintenance Environment for OpenVMS and other Strategic Platforms Gerrit Woertman CTO OpenVMS www.VMSConsultancy.com Gerrit.Woertman@vmsconsultancy.com +31 6 51341600 Introduction to NXTware Remote

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NXTware Remote

Advanced Development and Maintenance Environment for OpenVMS and other Strategic Platforms

Gerrit Woertman CTO OpenVMS www.VMSConsultancy.com Gerrit.Woertman@vmsconsultancy.com +31 6 51341600

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Introduction to NXTware Remote

  • Why Modernize Development?
  • What is NXTware Remote

– Advanced tools – Rich integration – Powerful Debugger

  • Benefits of NXTware Remote
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Classic OpenVMS program development

  • Terminalsession to VMS
  • Edit programsource
  • Compile, link, run
  • Later DECset with LSE, CMS, MMS
  • Or develop on desktop/laptop and use

extensively ftp to copy sources both ways

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Why modernize your development environment?

  • Enhanced Results
  • Improved Quality
  • Increased Productivity
  • Lower Costs
  • Enriched Teams
  • Establishes best practices
  • Enrich current capabilities
  • Simplifies onboarding new developers
  • Agile Organization
  • Improves development‐operations (Dev‐ops)
  • Provides great organizational adaptability
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The components of a modern development Environment?

  • Primary
  • Modern integrated development environment (IDE)

– Powerful editors – Integrated graphical debugger – Integrated source code management – Open framework for adding tools

  • Best practices
  • Contributing
  • Task/Requirement management
  • Dev‐Ops automation between

– Source code repository – Build – Testing

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Intro to NXTware Remote

  • What is NXTware Remote?

– An integrated development/maintenance environment that

  • Increases software engineering productivity
  • Updates and modernizes the development process
  • Easily integrates external tools into the dev process

– Supports best practices and improves code quality – Provides a

  • Remote development environment
  • Advanced software engineering tools
  • Powerful Debugger
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NXTware Remote Features

  • Eclipse‐based IDE
  • Native HP Language Editors
  • Full integration /certification of 3rd

party Eclipse plug‐ins

  • Remote Development
  • From: Windows, LINUX, MacOS
  • To: OpenVMS, LINUX, UNIX
  • Language Support
  • C/C++, COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN,

BASIC

  • DCL, SQL, various scripting languages
  • Modular Extensible
  • IDE and Remote Execution
  • MMS, CMS, SVN, etc
  • 3rd Party plug‐ins
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NXTware‐Remote

OpenVMS

NXTware-Remote

COBOL C C++ FORTRAN PASCAL BASIC DCL JAVA HTTP, Manager, Database

eclipse

NXTware-Remote plugins

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(Sample) Remote Development Architecture

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Remote Development

  • Remote architecture

– NXTware Remote Studio

  • Eclipse plugin

– NXTware Remote Server

  • Remote execution engine

– NXTware Server

  • Cross‐platform Communication platform
  • Remote Operation

– Studio enables users retrieve and edit code the transfer to a remote server for operations – On remote server the source code is built, complied, run and debugged from within Eclipse

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Advanced Tools

  • Rich Editor Features

– Easy Navigation – Syntax Highlighting – Content Assist – Mirroring and Synchronizing Files – Source Code Templates – Macros and Shortcuts – Search & Replace – Bookmarks

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  • Oracle RDB

(Relational Database Management System) integration

  • HP CDD

(Common Data Dictionary)

  • CDO, BLDCDO
  • HP ACMS

(Application Control Management System)

  • GDF, TDF, IFDL, CDO
  • HP RMS

(Record Management Services) integration

  • CMS, NXTware Remote

advanced integration with CMS

Rich Integration: OpenVMS Centric

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Rich Integration: CMS File Diff

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Powerful Debugger: Managing values

Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3icNPjKjtXg

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Rich Integration 3rd Party Plugin and Integration

  • Database Management

– Dbeaver for Database integration (SQL and RDB support)

  • Source Code Management Support

– Quality Center, Subversion, Git, Microsoft Team Foundation, etc

  • Requirement and Task Management

– Mylyn Task Management (Quality Center support) – Custom integration

  • Quality/Check Style

– ACRT ‐ Automatic Code Review Tool for COBOL

  • Custom Integration

– Jenkins Build Automation

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NXTware Remote and Jenkins

  • Brings Continuous integration and Build

Automation to OpenVMS

– NXTware Remote Server acts as a Jenkins proxy on OpenVMS

  • NXTware Remote for Jenkins allows developers to

– Detect build breaks sooner – Identify failing tests more quickly – Make progress faster

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Remote for Jenkins Architecture NXTware

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The Modern Development Components

  • Primary components

 Modern integrated development environment (IDE)

– Powerful editors – Open framework for adding capabilities

 Best practices for development engineering

  • Valued‐adding components

 Task/Requirement management

  • The Next Step: Dev‐Ops automation (Continuous Integration) between

– Source code repository – Automated Build – Automated Testing

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NXTware Remote Benefits

  • Proven demonstrated benefits

– Developers are

  • More productive
  • Generated fewer bugs
  • Created code that was easier to manage

– Managers are able to better

  • Allocate resources
  • Track efforts
  • Forecast deliverables

– End users receive

  • Better quality application updates faster
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NXTware Remote Benefits

  • What can NXTware Remote do for you and your

users?

– 30 %– 45% improvement in overall productivity – 100% – 300% improvement in productivity for specific tasks – 50% decrease in bugs and errors that reach QA – Overall reduction in the amount of time and energy needed to develop, build and test software

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For More Information Visit www.ecubesystems.com Watch the NXTware Remote playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0W12zANHs‐lVgWq‐57G‐Sn7OGJPZJPXX

More Info: gerrit.woertman@vmsconsultancy.com

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Cal Success Story

  • Don’t just take our word for it:

(bit.ly/1E0m7KN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0gm98Xj4g

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NXTware Remote for Jenkins

Short overview of the benefits of Build Automation, Continuous Integration and NXTware Remote for Jenkins

Gerrit Woertman CTO OpenVMS VMSConsultancy.com Gerrit.Woertman@vmsconsultancy.com +31 6 51341600

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What is build automation?

  • Build automation is the process of automating tasks

that software developers do in their day‐to‐day work including:

– compiling computer source code into binary code – packaging binary code – running automated tests – deploying to production systems – creating documentation and/or release notes

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Why Implement build automation?

  • The benefits of build automation include

– Improved product quality – Accelerated compile and link process – Elimination of redundant tasks – Minimization of bad and faulty builds – Documentation of build and release history to track issues – Removal of dependencies on specific personnel – Saved time and money ‐ because of the reasons listed above.

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What is Continuous Integration?

  • Continuous Integration (CI) is a development

process that

– requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day

  • each check‐in is then verified by an automated build

– optionally followed by automated tests

– allows teams to detect problems early

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What is Continuous Integration?

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Why Jenkins?

  • Popular Continuous Integration Server

– Widely used – Extensible – Ease to use

  • Multi‐platform

– Windows, Linux, Unix – But not OpenVMS

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Why NXTware Remote and Jenkins for OpenVMS?

  • Brings Continuous integration and Build

Automation to OpenVMS

– NXTware Remote Server acts as a Jenkins proxy on OpenVMS

  • NXTware Remote for Jenkins allows developers to

– Detect build breaks sooner – Identify failing tests more quickly – Make progress faster

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NXTware Remote for Jenkins Architecture

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NXTware Remote for Jenkins Architecture

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Jenkins Interface

Actions Nodes Jobs

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Jenkins with NXTware Remote Plugin

Jenkins Interface NXTware Remote

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Continuous Integration and Jenkins

Jenkins Interface: Returning results from an OpenVMS Build via NXTware Remote

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NXTware Remote for Jenkins Process

CI Process on OpenVMS

– Create a new job from a CMS repository – Build that code, see build results – Run tests, see test results – Make a change and watch it run through the system

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NXTware Remote for Jenkins

Before After

  • "fire and forget", consistent
  • Testing is automated
  • Code coverage is easy
  • Bugs caught early and often
  • Developers worry about code
  • Change control in the right places

for deployments

  • Rapid progress. Greater agility.
  • Identical artifact per environment
  • Identical configuration per

environments

  • Deployments are “click” easy
  • Integration simplified
  • Building is slow, error prone
  • Testing is onerous
  • Code coverage is onerous
  • Bugs caught later
  • Developers worry about servers
  • No change control for

deployments

  • Slow progress
  • Different artifact per environment
  • Inconsistent configuration per

environment

  • Deployments are "hard"
  • Integration difficult
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The Modern Development Components

  • Primary components

 Modern integrated development environment (IDE)

– Powerful editors – Open framework for adding capabilities

 Best practices for development engineering

  • Valued‐adding components

 Task/Requirement management

  • The Next Step: Dev‐Ops automation (Continuous Integration) between

– Source code repository – Automated Build – Automated Testing

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For More Information Visit www.ecubesystems.com More Info: Gerrit.Woertman@vmsconsultancy.com

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LOGO

NXTmonitor for OpenVMS

Application Performance Management for Enterprise Processes, Scripts and Executables

Spring 2016 www.ecubesystems.com

Gerrit.Woertman@VMSConsultancy.com www.vmsconsultancy.com

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Agenda

 What is an Application comprised of?  Introducing NXTmonitor  NXTmonitor Architecture  NXTmonitor Features and Benefits

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Database Distributed business logic

What is an application?

Distributed business logic Gateway process Schedule batch process Data Feed

Applications can be comprised of one or more of the following:

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Dependency

Database Distributed business logic

What is an application?

Distributed business logic Gateway process Schedule batch process ???

What is an application? Where does it end?

COTS App Custom software

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Database Distributed business logic

What is an application?

Distributed business logic Gateway process Schedule batch process ???

What is an application? Where does it end? When is it “up”?

√ √ √ √

Dependency

COTS App Custom software

√ X X

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Introducing NXTmonitor

NXTmonitor is a DevOps agile infrastructure application performance management system that:

  • Simplifies runtime application management
  • Replaces DevOps scripting with ease of use GUI
  • Replicates development and testing environments exactly in Production
  • Ensures dependability, reliability and scalability
  • Keeps the many components of your mission-critical applications up and

running

  • Provides auditing of application performance
  • Enables scalability and failover with middleware option
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Introducing NXTmonitor

NXTmonitor automates the management of server-side processes and applications by systematizing:

  • The identification of runtime issues and failures
  • The Sending issue notifications and alerts
  • Taking corrective actions
  • Properly restarting assets
  • Running corrective scripts
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NXTmonitor: How is it different?

NXTmonitor

  • Important features differentiate it from HPE/VSI Availability Manager

and CockpitMgr

  • Unique focus on how internal and external processes/executables

work together as an application and their collective health/availability

  • Manages applications on all platforms in one GUI

Key Features

  • Application configurations
  • Rich configurations: Internal processes, external connections, Web

applications, etc

  • Dependency modeling
  • Custom health scripts (Test availability)
  • Custom corrective scripts (Resolve issues)
  • Mobile access and monitoring API
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NXTmonitor: Core Capabilities

 Configuration and Planning

  • Defines/knows exact environmental characteristics, dependencies and

resources needed for each component and groups of components

  • Automatic action taken to ensure policies and configurations maintained

groups of components and individual processes

 Monitoring and Alerting

  • Automatic monitoring and alerting
  • Tracks issues ensuring proper restorative actions are taken

 Manage and Repair

  • Avoids downtime with automatic restarts
  • Based on rules and results runs custom health scripts
  • Implements pre-defined configurations/polices on restarts
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Database Distributed business logic

NXTmonitor Architecture

Distributed business logic Gateway process Schedule batch process Data Feed

Persistent and independent application/process management

NXTmonitor Master Server

Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Manage

  • Configurations
  • Services
  • Dependencies
  • Timers / Schedulers
  • Rules and custom health scripts

Stored management data Distribute and persist management data (XML)

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NXTmonitor: Features

 Manages a diverse set of objects and platforms

  • Distributed components:
  • Middleware services and business components
  • RPC, CORBA, MoM
  • Applications:
  • Executables, commercial and custom software
  • Web servers, databases
  • Scripts and processes:
  • Python, Ruby, PHP
  • Daemons, OS scripts: DCL, COM, etc
  • Cross platform management of assets and dependencies
  • OpenVMS
  • Linux/Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
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NXTmonitor: Features

 Active and automatic system health management

  • Implements operational rules and policies
  • Customizable policies enforces appropriate priorities, timing, notification

for and resolution of run-time issues

 Reliable fault-tolerant architecture

  • No single point of failure
  • Node can independently enforces management policies

 Flexible User Interaction

  • NXTmonitor Console application
  • Mobile Monitoring App
  • Monitoring API
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NXTmonitor: Mobile Architecture

Mobile Monitoring

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 Increases operational productivity

  • Automatic configuration monitoring, alerting, self-healing saves time
  • Reduces errors by documenting exact system configurations, relationships and

dependencies

  • Makes it easy to modify configurations and policies
  • Can reduce issue resolution by more than 50%

 Reduces risk

  • No single point of failure
  • Removes dependence on specific individuals with specific knowledge
  • Configuration and policy framework limit impacts of human

error or technical failure

NXTmonitor: Benefits