SOA Operations
| Effective with the release of Actional 8.0, all of the capabilities described below for Progress® Actional® for SOA Operations are available in Progress® Actional® Enterprise. Current Actional customers should read about their migration path in Frequently Asked Questions. |
End-to-end SOA Visibility
Actional for SOA operations delivers SOA management functionality to organizations who want a cost-effective, high-performance, scalable SOA runtime environment. It provides centralized management and end-to-end visibility into the dynamic, loosely coupled SOA environment necessitated by the move from application silos.
Actional products offer a non-invasive approach to monitoring and managing SOA operations. This is made possible through a unique Flow Mapping™ technology that provides global SOA views without intensive coding and manual configuration required by other solutions. As a result, with Actional you can better understand how services are being used and by whom, yet improve IT productivity and reduce SOA development time and costs.
Actional also makes finding the root cause of policy violations, exceptions, and other service processing problems easy. Alerts are triggered by violations, automatically generating a snapshot of the actual transaction that caused the policy violation, making root cause analysis fast and accurate.
Figure: A flow map of service interdependencies and process flows.
This auto-discovered flow map of the entire SOA shows process flows and service interdependencies. (Click on image to enlarge.)
Benefits of Using Actional for SOA Operations:
- End-to-end visibility into performance and service-level availability across a heterogeneous environment—reducing the risk of SOA adoption.
- Efficient root cause analysis of operational issues—allowing you to quickly pinpoint problems.
- Early detection of service performance anomalies—analyze real-time and historical data on performance and availability.
- Non-invasive management approach—for low latency and cost-effective, enterprise-class scalability without adding costly SOA management servers.
Enhance SOA Operations with Actional Add-on: Governance Integration Module
The Governance Integration Module integrates with third-party governance products such as BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Registry Repository, Software AG's CentraSite Governance Edition, Fujitsu's and Software AG's CentraSite Enterprise Edition, and HP Systinet to control rogue services, share policy information, and augment registry service metadata with runtime service metadata. It automatically discovers rogue services and interrupts them, pending their review and approval--preventing possible breaches of security and regulatory compliance and their costly consequences, such as fines and litigation, as well as capacity overloads from unplanned services.
The Governance Integration Module also adds value to integrated registries and repositories by copying in metadata on actual service usage, performance, and interdependencies. This information helps developers understand the impact of SOA versioning and maintenance.
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