1. JBoss Health Check
Summary Key Review Areas
When JBoss infrastructure is responsible for running you business critical Our consultant will review these key
areas against our knowledge base of
applications, it is essential that your JBoss investment is Fast, Reliable,
best practices.
Manageable and Secure. Poor performance of your applications, unplanned
outages, and breached security can significantly damage your reputation, JBoss Architecture
causing loss of revenue, customers and partners. C2B2’s JBoss health check y Is the right version of the JBoss
enables you to draw upon C2B2’s wealth of experience in deploying large scale software being used?
JBoss environments into production, ensuring your JBoss infrastructure is y Is the software version consistent
ready to meet your demanding production service levels. across servers and clients?
y Is there a good split of JBoss servers
to hardware processes?
Benefits y Is the cluster design appropriate?
C2B2 offers you Fast, Reliable, Manageable and Secure investment in your y Is load balancing configured
correctly?
JBoss infrastructure which can result in:
y Are communication methods
y better performance; between servers appropriate?
y Can communication channels be
y attracting more customers; made more resilient?
y building better reputation; JBoss Optimisations
y improving your relations with partner organisations; y Are resource pools tuned to suit the
load?
y generating more revenue. y Are resource pools configured
consistently across tiers?
Fast y Can we apply standard optimisations
to the configuration?
Optimising your JBoss server configuration can result in reduced application y Are JDBC Connection pools
latency, reduced response times resulting in a better user experience, while configured correctly?
review of your cluster design can provide increased scalability and elasticity y Are Web Connectors appropriately
when your user populations increase. configured?
y Is JMS configured for resilience,
security and performance?
Reliable y Is logging configured correctly?
Reviewing your JBoss high availability, monitoring and alerting strategy can JVM Configuration
significantly reduce unscheduled downtime and server failures while providing
y Has the right JVM version been
the visibility and metrics to improve diagnostics and failure root cause analysis. chosen?
Allowing you to get the servers back up and fix problems faster. y Has the JVM been tuned to your
application memory profile?
y Have JVM optimisations been
Manageable applied?
y Will a 32bit or 64bit JVM give
C2B2 can provide you with best practices for JBoss administration, upgrades benefits?
and patching can significantly reduce your administration costs, complexity
and timescales. We can also recommend topologies that enable system up-
grades with zero downtime to remove the need to plan outages.
Secure
Removing unwanted JBoss services and securing those that remain reduces
the number of opportunities, and methods that an attacker, with detailed
JBoss knowledge, can use to exploit your system.
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2. JBoss Health Check
Methodology Key Review Area
The JBoss healthcheck is a 5 day consulting engagement delivered on site Security
at your premises. C2B2 will work with your team to provide mentoring and y Is the configuration adhering to best
knowledge transfer to increase your team’s skill level and explain the thinking practices for hardening JBoss
behind our recommendations. The C2B2 consultant will first review your y Are processes and procedures
application architecture to understand how the application uses JBoss and in place to ensure the data and
the JBoss facilities it requires. They will then systematically review the JBoss application are secure?
configuration and compare it against our extensive in house knowledge base y Can we remove unwanted services?
of best practices and decide on appropriate changes and modifications. Prior y Have server entry points been
to leaving site the consultant will walk through his recommendations with the secured?
y Are sensitive passwords visible?
team and explain the rationale behind each recommendation. The following
week C2B2 will deliver to you a final report to you with all the recommended Administration Processes
configuration changes. y Are appropriate administration
procedures in place?
As a separate engagement we can implement the changes for you and deliver y Can simple administration tasks be
a standard JBoss production configuration for current and future deployments. automated?
y Can patches and application
upgrades be applied simply?
Requirements y Are their best practices that will
For the the health check to progress smoothly we will need some help greatly reduce the administration
from you: overhead.
y Controlled Access to your JBoss Production Monitoring and Alerting
Environments y Are you getting all the useful
information that JBoss makes
y Visibility of your JBoss and Application Configuration available to you?
Files y Are metrics being captured for
triage and diagnosis of system
y Space for our consultant to work on their laptop
problems?
y Meetings Space to review your architecture y Are alerts set for threshold
conditions to warn of imminent
y Time with your key developers and architects to problems?
discuss the architecture y Are application and server metrics
available for capacity planning?
Application
y Does the application follow best
practices in how it makes use of
JBoss services?
y Are the application performance and
scalability bottlenecks understood?
y Can the JBoss configuration be
changed to enhance application
reliability?
© 2011 C2B2 Consulting Limited, Unit 33, Malvern Hills Science Park, C2B2_JBOSSHC 23/01/11
Geraldine Road, Malvern, Worcestershire. WR14 3SZ
Registered in England and Wales: 4563419