Alexandre Mendonça

After several discussions and shared thoughts between the Mobicents team and the community, it has been decided to align the Mobicents license with the remaining JBoss projects, changing to the LGPL 2.1 Open Source license!

Mobicents SIP Servlets was already using such license, but now it is applied to ALL Mobicents Projects (Diameter, JAIN SLEE, Media Server, SS7, etc), effective March 1, 2011.

We hope the community enjoys the change!

As it seems that some users don't find the task of installing and configuring Mobicents JAIN SLEE / Diameter Management consoles as plugins for Jopr/RHQ easy, I've decided to make a blog post explaining how to do it.

But if an image worths more than 1.000 words, how many words can a video worth? :) Hopefully, a lot, because I've just recorded one that I hope it helps to better understand how it should be done.

Still, I will point the main actions to be executed and the time they occur at the video, for faster reference.

Here it is, right from the Mobicents Channel @ Vimeo:

Installing Jopr/RHQ and Mobicents JAIN SLEE 2.x Plugin (click to watch in HD)

1. [00:00] Download RHQ Server from http://www.rhq-project.org/ and Unzip rhq-server-3.0.0.zip to any directory of your choice;
2. [00:50] In a terminal, go to "rhq-server-3.0.0/bin" inside the extracted folder and run "rhq-server.[bat|sh] console", depending on your OS;
3. [01:30] Go to http://127.0.0.1:7080/ and install the server (don't forget to select your database);
4. [03:15] Login with default credentials (rhqadmin/rhqadmin), go to Downloads and Download the "Agent Installer";
5. [04:00] In a new terminal, go to the directory where the Agent Installer was downloaded and issue the command "java -jar rhq-enterprise-agent-3.0.0.jar --install" to install it;
6. [04:35] In the same terminal go to rhq-agent/bin (where it was installed) and run "rhq-agent.[bat|sh] --clean" (use --clean to make sure you will use a fresh configuration). Default values should be fine;
7. [05:30] In the web interface, go to Administration > System Configuration > Plugins, click "Add" and browse to the Mobicents JAIN SLEE / Diameter Plugin location and click "Upload". When done, click "Scan for Updates";
8. [07:45] If not yet running, start yout JAIN SLEE / Diameter Server;
9. [09:30] In the RHQ Agent terminal, issue "plugins update" to update the agent plugins (download the JAIN SLEE / Diameter plugin to the agent);
10. [11:10] Now that the plugins are updated, and with the JAIN SLEE / Diameter Server running, in the Agent terminal issue the "discovery" command to find new resources;
11. [11:35] In the web interface, go to Overview > Auto Discovery Queue, locate the Server, check it and click "Import"
12. [12:45] Still at the webpage, head to Resources > Servers. Click on the server entry to manage it. Enjoy!

That's right! It's a complete new world for me now that I've started my own blog.

First of all, let me introduce myself and the role of this blog:

I'm a Software Engineer working for JBoss R&D on the open source telco framework Mobicents. I've been using and developing services for it for almost 4 years, namely in JAIN SLEE server, and roughly 2 years ago I started to work on the core team, developing JAIN SLEE core and started from scratch along with Bartosz Baranowski the Diameter component for the project.

It's been a wonderful experience so far, I've learned a lot from all the team members, all JBoss community and from work itself!

Regarding the blog, it's been a project that I've always been delaying but I think the time has come and I hope I can keep it up! I expect to write on a regular basis, mainly with new announcements, some hints regarding my work... and whatever comes to my mind! :)

See you soon!