Enterprise Console Details
The Enterprise Console encompasses management features, installation modes, and lifecycle monitoring.
Enterprise Console Features
The Enterprise Console allows you to perform the following tasks:
Multi-Platform Management
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Manage multiple platforms at the same time using the application
Note: The Enterprise Console does not require all services within a given platform to have the same major version number. -
Discover, install, and upgrade Controllers, Event Services, and MySQL nodes
Warning: Note that all services on Windows machines must be installed on the Enterprise Console host when using the Enterprise Console since the application does not support remote operations on Windows.
HA-Lifecycle Management (Available on Linux only)
- Manage HA pair lifecycle without the use of the CLI based HA-toolkit or sudo privileges
- Perform failover management
Other Features
- Manage Controller and Events Service lifecycle
- Utilize GUI & CLI support
- Manage AppServer and database configurations
Platform Install Modes
There are two install types that you can use to deploy your platform:
- The quickest way to get started for fresh Controller installations
- Install the Controller and an embedded Events Service on a single host
- Configure and customize user inputs and installation/data directories for the Controller and Events Service
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Install or upgrade single or HA Controllers and scaled-up Events Service in a distributed setup
Warning:Controller HA pairs and Events Service clusters are not available on Windows machines through the Enterprise Console since the application does not support remote operations on Windows.
You can manually install or upgrade multi-node Events Service clusters. See Install the Events Service on Windows or Upgrade the Events Service Manually.
- Add one or more Events Service nodes
- Discover & Upgrade older platform services
Lifecycle Monitoring
On the Platforms page, you can see all of your platforms, their statuses, and the statuses of their services. Once you have selected a platform to view, the screen is separated into different tabs:
Hosts are the actual hardware devices that are connected to the platform. You can add, remove, or change the credentials of your hosts in this tab.
The Controllers page shows the primary and secondary roles of the Controllers and their MySQL nodes. The entire lifecycle operations of Controllers and MySQL nodes can be performed here. You can also see the External URL, which is the IP of the primary machine. Health statuses for the Controllers are also available. You can Add a Secondary Controller if you would like to create an HA pair, then initiate an HA failover if you want to trigger a failover. You can also start or stop a Controller, Upgrade a Controller and MySQL, and more.
The Events Service page displays your Events Service cluster, which can be made using one to three machines. Again there is an entire lifecycle of operations you can do.
Credentials are your host's usernames and private keys. They are required to SSH or connect to the hosts via system user name and private keys.
All of the jobs that you perform on your platform can be seen on the Jobs page. It is a nice way to keep track of your jobs and also see which jobs have failed.
Configurations are important since they let you customize your installations. Configuration settings on the Enterprise Console are separated into three categories: Platform, Controller, and Events Service Settings.
The Controller Settings contains the most configurable settings. The AppServer Configurations under Controller Settings allows you to see all of the Domain configurations which you can initiate from this point or configure your ports. The Database Configurations lets you edit your MySQL settings. So you do not have to tweak the machine, you can do everything from the Console itself.