Why ControlTier?
The Problem
The Solution: Best Practices
The Solution: Automation

Deployment Automation
SCM & Build Automation
Production Management
ControlTier for ATG

Getting Started

Production Environment Management

The reliability of an application is heavily dependent on the environment it is being deployed into. You must be certain that your applications are being deployed onto a reliable and consistent platform (i.e. operating system and base packages deployed and configured as expected). One misconfiguration or incompatibility can bring your entire operation to a halt.

To make matters worse, there is often more than one "right" way to do things at the platform level, but the resulting inconsistencies can be problematic at the application level.

To guarantee consistency and reliability, you need automation that captures your operations team's best practices and ensures that the conditions your applications expect are exactly what is out there. This automation also gives you the insight and accountability that you need to meet regulatory and management audit standards.

Our automation experts will work with your team to capture its best practices and to deliver an automated platform management solution built on flexible open source tools. Combined with our Application Deployment Management and Build Management Solutions, you can have complete end-to-end automated control over your entire application lifecycle.

Each solution is customized to address the specific business and technical pressures unique to each organization. Below are some of solution options:

Automated OS Provisioning

Prepare any specific version of the operating system and have it automatically stamped out across multiple machines. This also includes the ability to upgrade in place to newer versions or roll back to pervious versions as needed.

System Configuration Management

Once the operating system is deployed there is still a considerable amount of work that needs to take place. You must ensure that all of the os, network, and security settings are correct. You also must ensure that all of the correct libraries and base packages are in the right locations.

This solution automates all of this work and also gives you the ability to automatically spot and correct "configuration drift" or unauthorized changes as they take place.

Monitoring

Monitoring is an essential part of any operation, but most organizations only monitor at a basic level (with basic ping, snmp, and url tests). In today's world of interconnected services and complex multi-tier applications, that level of monitoring just doesn't go far enough. In many scenarios, it is impossible to tell if an application is functioning correctly from the individual machine or service level.

Our experts can build you a complete monitoring solution that goes beyond the basic levels of your traditional monitoring tools. We start with your existing monitoring tools and add a combination of capabilities that give you complete health and diagnostic insight into even the most complex of distributed applications.

To find out how to get started with ControlTier Services, visit our getting started page.