Hi all,

    I have a requirement where in i need to automate the deployment of enterprise applications(.ear) (install/uninstall/update) using jacl scripting..

   In Websphere Process Server, it is observed that before uninstalling or updating an application(.ear) which has a Business Process(BPEL), the BPEL Process should be stopped and then we proceed further for uninstalling or updating the EAR.Otherwise it will result in the failure in the uninstallation process.

  We want to automate the process of checking the state of BPEL process before moving ahead with uninstalling of EAR.

  My requirement is:
1.   A script(jacl) should check the state of BPEL Process(started or stopped). If it is started, then it should stop the BPEL.

 2. Then another script should uninstall or update the EAR which has that BPEL Process.

   Need some assistance in this regard. Please provide some guidelines to accomplish this task.

Thanks in advance.

Yes.. you can

1. There are some utilities provided by IBM under processChoreographer/admin directory of your process server installation.  These are Jython/Jacl scripts hence you can use with wsadmin.

2. Deploying EAR file also can be automated using wsadmin. I remember couple of our community members posted scripts which you can use by changing the varibles.

Hi Joseph,

    Thanks for your reply. We have a set of jacl scripts and install/uninstall scripts for automated deployment of enterprise applications and is working properly.

   
   Using bpcTemplates.jacl present in processChoreographer/admin, i could able to stop/start BPEL using wsadmin.But i have a requirement where i need to check which all enterprise applications have Business Process(BPEL) and stop them before going for uninstalling those applications..

   Since some of the times we tend to forget stopping BPEL process before uninstalling applications which lead to so many problems while installing the same application.

  Can we somehow integrate these two scripts to automate the install/uninstall process?

Thanks in advance.

  
 

Ok

The following has been introduced from v7.5 but unfortunately it is not available in v7

pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v8r0...

Hi Pavan,

  Stopping and starting process and task templates using administrative scripts
  pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v7r0...

  Some useful administration scripts, related to Process Server

   Business Process Choreographer administrative scripts
   pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v7r0...

   Commands (wsadmin scripting)
   pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v7r0...

   Command-line utilities
   pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v7r0...
   
   Hope this helps,
   
   
 Regards

Pavan - you can also try -force option while uninstalling process templates.

Also try to get the listTemplates.py file and run against v7 . It should work :-)