t-factory-server

t-factory-server is a software aimed to manage Tomcat instances in a simple, standardized and easy way via a Web Graphic User Interface that interact with agents (t-Factory-Agent) installed on remote servers.

tFactory usually fit well in scenarios when you hate to ask questions like:

• Which ports are available in a remote server?
• Which ports does the current instances have configured on remote server?
• Can you create a new instance in less than 1 minutes with custom settigns?
• Can you give me a report of all the instances in our environment with his respective ports configuration now?
• Can you create a image template and be distributed on remote servers in less than 2 minute?
• What are we going to do if operations guy don't want to use Chef, Puppet or other cool tools for tomcat management?

Table of contents

• Creator
• Installation
• Features
• Contributing
• Documentation
• Bugs and feature requests
• Roadmap
• Copyright and license

##Creator

Cesar Hernandez

• https://twitter.com/CesarHgt
• https://cesarhernandezgt.blogspot.com

##Installation

• Download the [latest release] (https://github.com/tfactory/t-factory-server/releases) (.war) file and deploy it on any Tomcat 7 instance. JRE 7 or latest should be used the the Tomcat instance.
• Start the tomcat instance.
• Personalize the file global-configuration.properties according to your needs.
• Paste the Tomcat intance(s) template(s) you want to distribute with the tFactory server
• Restart the tomcat instance.

For agent configuration see: [t-factory-agent] (https://github.com/tfactory/t-factory-agent/)

##Features

• Add/Remove remote servers to manage.
• Monitor remote t-factory-agent status.
• Register/Deregister instances already created on remote servers.
• Persistence layer with sqlite
• Creation of new instances on remote servers with auto and manual selection of available ports.
• Instance template catalog capability.
• Monitor changes on configuration (currently server.xml file) of remote instances.
• Internationalized GUI (currently only EN_US and ES_GT).

Contributing

You are wellcome to improve the software. Be sure to check: opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development code.

Documentation

You can find enough documentation by the generation of the javaDoc of this project.

Bugs and feature requests

You can check: open and closed issues.

Roadmap

This is the list of the upcoming features. (Looking forward to have your coding contribution):

• Authentication and Authorization
• Log4j incorporation
• Configure memory parameters to instances when they are created from the tFactory server.
• Configure jmx port parameter to instances when they are created from the tFactory server.
• Datasource managements.
• GUI edition of global configurations.
• Ability to create groups of servers or instance to trigger global start and stop operations.

Copyright and license

Code released under Apache License Version 2.0.