George
On 9/19/06, Tony Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
**
I wanted to ask the same questions, but didn't feel like typing... haha.
I'm in the same boat as you (RKM, etc), minus the reporting (which lives elsewhere.)
ServletExec makes me crazy, and I can't imagine it in production.
I think Tomcat will be a good choice, but I haven't decided whether to use apache and mod_jk or IIS with the connector. I'm pretty sure tomcat serves static content slower than apache/iis. Have you investigated this?
And do you have RKM7 up and running? Just wait...
-tony
--
Tony Worthington
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
262-703-6125
strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" <[email protected]>09/18/2006 06:31 PM
[email protected]
[email protected] Considering switching to Tomcat on W2K3/IIS6 for ARS 7 architecture
What are the issues that I might run into if I use Tomcat 5.x instead of
ServletExec 5.x for mid-tier 7 running on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
and IIS 6.0? I got the distinct impression at UserWorld that BMC Remedy
was seriously considering switching to Tomcat from ServletExec as the
default application server underlying mid-tier 7.x, and there are
several other reasons for considering this that are present in the 7.x
environment:
Remedy Knowledge Management 7 (RKM) requires/supports either ServletExec
or Tomcat (or roll your own in the dark as commented on by Tony
Worthington earlier this month).
The SLM 7 Collector currently requires JBoss and only runs on the AR
Server, but will reportedly be updated to use ServletExec and/or Tomcat
and run on the mid-tier server or another web server.
So far so good - ServletExec will still work with everything, except...
Crystal Reports Server XI / Business Objects XI requires either Tomcat
or .NET 2.0 - it will NOT use ServletExec. In fact, if you take the
defaults (Java not .NET) the Crystal Server installer will ignore
ServletExec and install an instance of Tomcat without further warning.
So, if I want to run mid-tier 7, RKM 7, Crystal Reports Server XI, and
SLM 7 Collector all on a single web server then the only common java
application server _appears_ to be Tomcat. For all I know, the mid-tier
7.1 (?) installer will actually install Tomcat by default, but I need to
install something now instead of waiting. The minimalist June 2006 White
Paper "Configuring Tomcat 5.x web server and application server" assumes
prior knowledge of Tomcat and only addresses a couple of settings; what
else should I know about running it underneath mid-tier and the other
BMC Remedy or related components?
Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
Remedy Database Administrator
University of North Texas Computing Center
http://remedy.unt.edu/helpdesk/
P.S. The other fun part of architecture planning for ARS 7 is the SQL
Server databases - ARS needs ARSystem of course, and SLM wants direct
access to it, but RKM, as well as Crystal Report Server, want their own
separate SQL databases or in Crystal's case will install the MSDE! Right
now I am planning a dedicated SQL Server 2005 machine for each AR Server
machine to host all of the various databases - in the past I kept SQL
Server on the AR Server and that worked just fine, but there's too much
baggage to haul along now. Hummingbird SearchServer installs its own SQL
database and JDBC driver on the mid-tier server already, so I don't want
several _more_ SQL Server or MSDE databases on the web server as well.
_______________________________________________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org
__20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___
__20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___
