Overview

This resource allows you to manage a foreign server object in a JMS Module of a WebLogic domain.

Here is an example on how you should use this:

wls_foreign_server_object { 'jmsClusterModule:Jboss:CF':
  ensure         => 'present',
  localjndiname  => 'jms/jboss/CF',
  object_type    => 'connectionfactory',
  remotejndiname => 'jms/Remote/CF',
}

In this example you are managing a foreign server object in the default domain. When you want to manage a foreign server object in a specific domain, you can use:

wls_foreign_server_object { ‘my_domain/jmsClusterModule:Jboss:JBossQ’: ensure => ‘present’, localjndiname => ‘jms/jboss/Queue’, object_type => ‘destination’, remotejndiname => ‘jms/Remote/Queue’, }

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Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
connection_health_checking Controls connection health checking for JMS resource reference pools that access this JMS foreign connection factory mapping.
disable_autorequire Puppet supports automatic ordering of resources by autorequire.
disable_corrective_change Disable the modification of a resource when Puppet decides it is a corrective change.
disable_corrective_ensure Disable the creation or removal of a resource when Puppet decides is a corrective change.
domain With this parameter, you identify the domain, where your objects is in.
ensure The basic property that the resource should be in.
foreign_server Foreign server name
   
jmsmodule The JMS module name.
local_jndi_name The name that the remote object will be bound to in the local server’s JNDI tree.
localjndiname The Local JNDI of the Foreign server object
   
name The name.
notes Optional information that you can include to describe this named JMS descriptor bean.
object Foreign Server Object name
   
object_type The object_type of a Foreign Server object
   
password The password used in conjunction with the user name specified in the Username parameter to access the remote connection factory.
provider resource.
remote_jndi_name The name of the remote object that will be looked up in the remote JNDI directory.
remotejndiname The Remote JNDI of the Foreign server object
   
timeout Timeout for applying a resource.
username The user name that is passed when opening a connection to the remote server (represented by this foreign connection factory).

connection_health_checking

Controls connection health checking for JMS resource reference pools that access this JMS foreign connection factory mapping. The default value is Enabled. Oracle recommends selecting Disabled only when directed to do so by customer support.

An example on how to use this:

wls_foreign_server_object {a_wls_foreign_server_object :
   ...
   connection_health_checking => 'enabled'
   ...
}

This is an extended property. Before you can use it add it to the wls_settings property extra_properties.

wls_setting{'domain':
   ...
  extra_properties => ['wls_foreign_server_object:connection_health_checking']
   ...
}

This help text generated from MBean text of the WebLogic server.

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disable_autorequire

Puppet supports automatic ordering of resources by autorequire. Sometimes, however, this causes issues. Setting this parameter to true, disables autorequiring for this specific resource.

USE WITH CAUTION!!

Here is an example on hopw to use this:

...{'domain_name/...':
  disableautorequire => true,
  ...
}

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disable_corrective_change

Disable the modification of a resource when Puppet decides it is a corrective change.

(requires easy_type V2.11.0 or higher)

When using a Puppet Server, Puppet knows about adaptive and corrective changes. A corrective change is when Puppet notices that the resource has changed, but the catalog has not changed. This can occur for example, when a user, by accident or willingly, changed something on the system that Puppet is managing. The normal Puppet process then repairs this and puts the resource back in the state as defined in the catalog. This process is precisely what you want most of the time, but not always. This can sometimes also occur when a hardware or network error occurs. Then Puppet cannot correctly determine the current state of the system and thinks the resource is changed, while in fact, it is not. Letting Puppet recreate remove or change the resource in these cases, is NOT wat you want.

Using the disable_corrective_change parameter, you can disable corrective changes on the current resource.

Here is an example of this:

crucial_resource {'be_carefull':
  ...
  disable_corrective_change => true,
  ...
}

When a corrective ensure does happen on the resource Puppet will not modify the resource and signal an error:

    Error: Corrective change present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_change
    Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Crucial_resource[be_carefull]/parameter: change from '10' to '20' failed: Corrective change present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_change. (corrective)

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disable_corrective_ensure

Disable the creation or removal of a resource when Puppet decides is a corrective change.

(requires easy_type V2.11.0 or higher)

When using a Puppet Server, Puppet knows about adaptive and corrective changes. A corrective change is when Puppet notices that the resource has changed, but the catalog has not changed. This can occur for example, when a user, by accident or willingly, changed something on the system that Puppet is managing. The normal Puppet process then repairs this and puts the resource back in the state as defined in the catalog. This process is precisely what you want most of the time, but not always. This can sometimes also occur when a hardware or network error occurs. Then Puppet cannot correctly determine the current state of the system and thinks the resource is changed, while in fact, it is not. Letting Puppet recreate remove or change the resource in these cases, is NOT wat you want.

Using the disable_corrective_ensure parameter, you can disable corrective ensure present or ensure absent actions on the current resource.

Here is an example of this:

crucial_resource {'be_carefull':
  ensure                    => 'present',
  ...
  disable_corrective_ensure => true,
  ...
}

When a corrective ensure does happen on the resource Puppet will not create or remove the resource and signal an error:

    Error: Corrective ensure present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_ensure.
    Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Crucial_resource[be_carefull]/ensure: change from 'absent' to 'present' failed: Corrective ensure present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_ensure. (corrective)

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domain

With this parameter, you identify the domain, where your objects is in.

The domain name is part of the full qualified name of any WebLogic object on a system. Let’s say we want to describe a WebLogic server. The full qualified name is:

wls_server{'domain_name/server_name':
  ensure => present,
  ...
}

When you don’t specify a domain name, Puppet will use default as domain name. For every domain you want to manage, you’ll have to put a wls_settings in your manifest.

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ensure

The basic property that the resource should be in.

Valid values are present, absent.

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foreign_server

Foreign server name

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jmsmodule

The JMS module name.

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local_jndi_name

The name that the remote object will be bound to in the local server’s JNDI tree. This is the name that should be used to look up the object on the local server.

An example on how to use this:

wls_foreign_server_object {a_wls_foreign_server_object :
   ...
   local_jndi_name => 'a_value'
   ...
}

This is an extended property. Before you can use it add it to the wls_settings property extra_properties.

wls_setting{'domain':
   ...
  extra_properties => ['wls_foreign_server_object:local_jndi_name']
   ...
}

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localjndiname

The Local JNDI of the Foreign server object

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name

The name.

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notes

Optional information that you can include to describe this named JMS descriptor bean. JMS module saves this note in the JMS descriptor file as XML PCDATA. All left angle brackets (<) are converted to the XML entity &lt;. Carriage returns/line feeds are preserved. <dl> <dt>Note:</dt> <dd> If you create or edit a note from the Administration Console, the Administration Console does not preserve carriage returns/line feeds. </dd> </dl>

An example on how to use this:

wls_foreign_server_object {a_wls_foreign_server_object :
   ...
   notes => 'a_value'
   ...
}

This is an extended property. Before you can use it add it to the wls_settings property extra_properties.

wls_setting{'domain':
   ...
  extra_properties => ['wls_foreign_server_object:notes']
   ...
}

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object

Foreign Server Object name

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object_type

The object_type of a Foreign Server object

Valid values are destination, connectionfactory.

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password

The password used in conjunction with the user name specified in the Username parameter to access the remote connection factory.

An example on how to use this:

wls_foreign_server_object {a_wls_foreign_server_object :
   ...
   password => 'a_value'
   ...
}

This is an extended property. Before you can use it add it to the wls_settings property extra_properties.

wls_setting{'domain':
   ...
  extra_properties => ['wls_foreign_server_object:password']
   ...
}

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provider

The specific backend to use for this wls_foreign_server_object resource. You will seldom need to specify this — Puppet will usually discover the appropriate provider for your platform.Available providers are:

simple
Foreign Server object in a JMS module of an WebLogic domain via regular WLST

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remote_jndi_name

The name of the remote object that will be looked up in the remote JNDI directory.

An example on how to use this:

wls_foreign_server_object {a_wls_foreign_server_object :
   ...
   remote_jndi_name => 'a_value'
   ...
}

This is an extended property. Before you can use it add it to the wls_settings property extra_properties.

wls_setting{'domain':
   ...
  extra_properties => ['wls_foreign_server_object:remote_jndi_name']
   ...
}

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remotejndiname

The Remote JNDI of the Foreign server object

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timeout

Timeout for applying a resource.

To be sure no Puppet operation, hangs a Puppet daemon, all operations have a timeout. When this timeout expires, Puppet will abort the current operation and signal an error in the Puppet run.

With this parameter, you can specify the length of the timeout. The value is specified in seconds. In this example, the timeout is set to 600 seconds.

wls_server{'my_server':
  ...
  timeout => 600,
}

The default value for timeout is 120 seconds.

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username

The user name that is passed when opening a connection to the remote server (represented by this foreign connection factory).

An example on how to use this:

wls_foreign_server_object {a_wls_foreign_server_object :
   ...
   username => 'a_value'
   ...
}

This is an extended property. Before you can use it add it to the wls_settings property extra_properties.

wls_setting{'domain':
   ...
  extra_properties => ['wls_foreign_server_object:username']
   ...
}

This help text generated from MBean text of the WebLogic server.

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