Mobicents Management Console

Mobicents Management Console (MMC) is an application which lets an administrator user interact with the Slee in order to perform management functions.

The console is a J2EE^? compliant web-based application deployed in the running instance of Apache Tomcat inside JBoss MicroKernel^?. An administrator can connect to this console via http through a common web browser.

Features

• Slee
  • current state of the Slee: stopped, starting, running, stopping
  • start the Slee
  • stop the Slee
  • shutdown the Slee
• Deployable Units and Components installed in the Slee
  • list of all Deployable Units installed in the Slee
  • install a new Deployable Unit
  • for each installed Deployable Unit:
    • description
    • url the deployable unit was installed from
    • date of installation
    • list of installed components
    • uninstall the deployable unit
  • list of all Components installed in the Slee
  • for each installed Component:
    • type: Sbb, EventType^?, Profile Specification, Service, Resource Adaptor Type, Resource Adaptor
    • description
    • name
    • vendor
    • version
• Service Management
  • list of all services installed in the Slee
  • for each installed Service
    • state of the service: inactive, active, stopping
    • activate the service
    • deactivate the service
• Usage Parameters Management
  • list of all parameter sets defined for a given sbb within a service
  • creation and removal of parameter sets
  • for each parameter set
    • list of all usage parameters and their values
    • reset of usage parameter values

How to install Mobicents Management Console binary distribution

• Mobicents Management Console binary distribution comes as a J2EE^? web application deployable unit war file, management-console.war. This file can be downloaded at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102670&package_id=210966.
• To install the console, just put management-console.war into %JBOSS_HOME%\server\all\deploy directory. JBoss will recognize it as a J2EE^? web application and will deploy it into the running instance of tomcat.
• After deployment, the console can be accessed via web browser at the url: http://localhost:8080/management-console

How to build Mobicents Management Console from source code

Mobicents Management Console source code comes as an Eclipse project with a build.xml ant file which guides the overall build process from compilation to deployment.

• Download MMC project from SVN repository at https://mobicents-management.dev.java.net/svn/mobicents-management/trunk. Use an SVN client, if you plan to use Eclipse to open and compile the project, Subclipse is a good choice since it is an eclipse plugin, you can download it here: http://subclipse.tigris.org. Otherwise, if you plan to build the project via command line ant, you can use Tortoise SVN client downloading it at http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
• Download Google Web Toolkit SDK from http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html, install it and set the system variable %GWT_HOME% referencing the installation directory.
• Make sure to have Mobicents server on the same machine and to have properly set the system variable %JBOSS_HOME%
• Make sure to have ant installed
• Building the project:
  • To build the project with Eclipse, just open the project and run build.xml
  • To build the project in command line mode, go to the project directory and type ant
• The default ant target will compile the project, create a J2EE^? web application deployable unit war file, and deploy it into Mobicents. Building can be done both while Mobicents is running or not.
• Access the console via web browser at the url: http://localhost:8080/management-console

Browser compatibility

Mobicents Management Console client side components use AJAX and CSS2, therefore the use of an up-to-date browser is recommanded.

MMC has been tested with Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 6. Firefox seems to work very good, while IE gives some css errors in table borders.

work in progress...

Related Resources

• Mobicents SLEE Graph Viewer

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