Xmarc Service Manager 4: Release Notes

These are release notes for ES6.1, including those for ES6.0.

Servlets Renamed

The Service Manager servlet previously known and invoked by the name WIISEAdmin has been renamed SvcMgr. Administrators should replace URL's which have reference to WIISEAdmin appropriately.

The service brokers: WIISE, FireStation and FireRender, have been merged into one servlet, named Broker. URL's referencing the old names will still work but are aliased to Broker within the servlet engine.

The FireRender functionality is made known to the Broker servlet at service registration time by a &comm=fire parameter on the registration URL. It is not necessary for you to add this parameter, it is done automatically. This is just for your information.

Installation

Installation of the Xmarc servlets is made simpler by the inclusion in the release of an xmarc.war file. This contains everything required to run the servlets, including the user guide, and is installed simply by "dropping" the .war file into the webapps (or similar) directory within the servlet engine file hierarchy. For Oracle Application server, the file xmarc_oas.war should be used.

Control Panel

The background has been set to pale gray.

The left-hand frame has been changed, with the removal of the Service Broker radio box. This is now redundant since there is now just one service broker (Broker).

2 new buttons Stop and Start have been added for advanced service re-installation without the necessity to stop all services, e.g. for service software updates.

In version 3.6, a new Monitoring Details button was added to the left-hand frame. Clicking this button displays a service usage and statistics table in the right-hand frame.

In version 4.0, a new Reset button has been added to the left-hand frame. Clicking this button displays a dialog to enable monitoring details to be reset. The old Reset button, which cleared input fields in the left-hand frame. has been renamed Clear.

Service Launching

The New Service page has been revamped with a re-ordering of existing fields and the addition of Launch Timeout field.

Agent Admin

A new button Show Debug Log has been added to inspect the debug log for a particular agent.

Service log output is now color-coded pale green. Agent debug log output is color-coded pink.

Since back-end services now require licenses, there is also a Show License Status button which displays the status from the currently-running license server (mxserver). Output is color-coded yellow. The license server is specified in the agent property file.