M3 Petals ESB administration

Overview

Information systems undergo everlasting evolution, thus making rationalisation and agility primary requirements. The Services Oriented Architecture stands as the new paradigm for building an infrastructure which address these needs.

Main topics

Once the SOA infrastructure such as one based on Petals ESB has gone live, Administrators have to ensure a constant quality of services and performance. They must warranty both operational capability and easy administration of a distributed or not infrastructure. This training module thus favours supervision and administration tools, through overview and practical exercises.

Main attendees

This training is primarily destined for administrators who have to manage production infrastructure. The attendees will be teached know-how on Petals tools use and good practices, for an efficient daily management of a production infrastructure.

Objectives

Understanding infrastructure models.
Discover the various exploitations types, learn how to administrate and supervize its infrastructure with Petals tools.
Practice throughout simple use-cases to illustrate the use of main Petals tools.

With this training, attendees will know how to administrate and supervize their SOA infrastructure thanks to Petals Suite.

Outline

Day 1: Petals administration and supervision

Petals ESB Overview
- Product
- Network topology
- Processes configurations deployment
Installation
- Infrastructure installation
- Setup
- Administration/supervision console installation
Administration console
- Installation of connectors on the infrastructure
- Configurations deployment
Administration with ANT scripts
Petals ESB supervision console

Day 2: Configuring message exchange in Petals ESB

Communication between Petals ESB and applications
- Founding principle: services provider / consumer
- Data transmission through service call
Configuration of processes
- Petals ESB connectors (Binding components)
- « Service Unit » concept
Using the configuration toolbox
- Petals Studio: Configuration wizard based on Eclipse
- Transforming and routing messages.

General informations

Duration:2 days.

Teaching method: 40 % theory, 60 % practice.

Attendees: System administrators, Production operator.

Prerequisites: General knowledge about ANT scripting and Eclipse IDE utilization.

Organisation: Inter-entreprise training (multimedia and documentaries supports are provided) or intra-entreprise (on-demand).

Services

References

The Social Security Central Agency (L'ACOSS) is France's chief agency for collecting social security payments. ACOSS uses Petals ESB as the heart for its infrastructure, to expose data and services to external partners.

Akerys, leader of french real estate rental, chose Petals ESB as a base for its information system.

Almerys, software editor for professionals and health insurance, chooses Petals ESB to integrate SOA capabilities in the next major version of its flaship product.

Cegedim activ, french leader of medical CRM market, uses Petals as a medium for its applications.

The Conseil général de la Gironde chooses Petals for its citizen portal.

DGA and Magellium choose Petals ESB to connect graphics processing chains.

The "Direction Générale de la Modernisation de l'Etat" chooses Petals ESB as core infrastrcuture software for managing data exchange on the "Monservicepublic.fr" webportal.