System and method for scripting explorer for server configuration

• US 20070174776A1
• Filed: 01/24/2006
• Published: 07/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Ghattu, Satya
• Granted Patent: US 8,078,971 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

The present invention provides provide GUI-type server scripting explorer that allows a user to browse, invoke, and update via its GUI all kinds of management objects available on a server. The explorer embeds a command interpreter through which the user can invoke server scripting commands directly from within the tool. All the actions that the user performed can be recorded to a file to build a server configuration script that can be used to repeat the same actions to config the server in the future. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.

Claims

1. A system to provide a scripting framework for server configuration, comprising:

one or more servers, wherein each of the one or more servers is operable to maintain a plurality of management objects that can be used to configure it; and

a scripting explorer operable to;

establish a connection to the one or more servers;

present the plurality of management objects on the one or more servers in a traversable hierarchy on a GUI of the scripting explorer;

enable a user to perform one or more operations on the plurality of management objects to configure the one or more servers via the GUI; and

record the one or more operations by the user into a script file that can be reused later.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the one or more servers can be one of a web server, an application server, a database server, and an administrative server.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the one or more servers can locate on one or more domains.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the connection to the one or more servers can be persistent.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the traversable hierarchy is a tree.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the plurality of management objects is operable to maintain a portion of at least one of;

configuration data and runtime date of the one or more servers.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the plurality of management objects can be a managed bean (MBean) in a Java programming environment.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

an operation in the one or more operations can be one of browsing, creating, deleting, and updating the plurality of management objects.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the scripting explorer is further operable to maintain the connection persistently until the one or more operations are completed.

10. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a command line scripting interpreter operable to;

accept one or more scripting instructions directly from the user; and

interpret and execute the one or more scripting instructions against the one or more servers.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein:

the one or more scripting instructions can be based on Jython syntax.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein:

the command line scripting interpreter can be synchronized with the GUI.

13. A method to provide a scripting framework for server configuration, comprising:

maintaining a plurality of management objects on one or more servers;

establishing a connection to the one or more servers via a scripting explorer;

presenting the plurality of management objects on the one or more servers in a traversable hierarchy on a GUI of the scripting explorer;

enabling a user to perform one or more operations on the plurality of management objects to configure the one or more servers via the GUI; and

recording the one or more operations by the user into a script file that can be reused later.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

maintaining a portion of at least one of configuration data and runtime date of the one or more servers in the plurality of management objects.

15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

browsing, creating, deleting, or updating the plurality of management objects to configure the one or more servers.

16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

maintaining the connection persistently until the one or more operations are completed.

17. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

performing at least one of the following via a command line scripting interpreter;

accepting one or more scripting instructions directly from the user; and

interpreting and executing the one or more scripting instructions against the one or more servers.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising:

synchronizing the command line scripting interpreter with the GUI.

19. A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed cause a system to:

maintain a plurality of management objects on one or more servers;

establish a connection to the one or more servers via a scripting explorer;

present the plurality of management objects on the one or more servers in a traversable hierarchy on a GUI of the scripting explorer;

enable a user to perform one or more operations on the plurality of management objects to configure the one or more servers via the GUI; and

record the one or more operations by the user into a script file that can be reused later.

20. A system to provide a scripting framework for server configuration, comprising:

means for maintaining a plurality of management objects on one or more servers;

means for establishing a connection to the one or more servers via a scripting explorer;

means for presenting the plurality of management objects on the one or more servers in a traversable hierarchy on a GUI of the scripting explorer;

means for enabling a user to perform one or more operations on the plurality of management objects to configure the one or more servers via the GUI; and

means for recording the one or more operations by the user into a script file that can be reused later.