Alexandre Mendonça

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!

We've just released a new spin for Mobicents Diameter, v1.1.2.GA.

It happened on 21st of February and along with the usual bug fixing and improvements, there's a great addition to the suite: The Mobicents Diameter Jopr Plugin.

Jopr is an enterprise management solution which provides administration, monitoring, alerting, operational control and configuration in an enterprise setting with fine-grained security and an advanced extension model.

The Mobicents Diameter Jopr Plugin provides the following functionalities:

• Stack configuration and management
• Provides means of changing stack parameters, such as various timeout values, duplicate protection, accept undefined peers, thread pools size, etc.;
• Start/Stop stack, Enable/Disable validation
• Local peer configuration and statistics
• Allows change of local peer IP Address and URI, Realm name, supported Application-Ids, etc.;
• Real time statistics regarding memory usage
• Network Peers management and statistics
• Provides ability to add and remove Network Peers;
• Statistics regarding requests/answer sent and/or received (total and per minute), Average time for message processing, Number of messages waiting on queue, number of messages failed to send/receive, etc.
• Realms configuration and management
• Allow runtime realm configuration, ie, change realm name, Peers list, Application Ids, etc.;
• Add and remove Realms

All these functionalities plus the added value by Jopr, which provides availability for each component (Stack, Local Peer, Network Peers and Realms), alert configuration, intuitive graphs and some more cool and intuitive features makes this a great companion for the Diameter suite!

Regarding installation and configuration of Jopr and the plugin, while we are working at the documentation for it, you can follow JAIN SLEE Jopr Plugin User Guide (Installing Jopr and Mobicents JAIN SLEE Plugin chapter) since it's the exact same procedure.

Here are some screenshots of the plugin in action:


Enjoy!

It was on Friday, 16th October 2009 that a shiny new release of Mobicents Diameter happened.

It's v1.1.0.GA and along with the usual enhancements and bug fixes, the main new features are:

• JBoss AS 5 support
• Stack configuration at runtime, via JMX
• Educative Example for Cx/Dx application
• Preview of the Mobicents Diameter User Guide