Documentation Changes

• The Command Central and Platform Manager release readme is now published only in HTML format.

• Removed the topics that include information about the license manifest and license manifest report functions from the Command Central Help.

The Software AG Command Central Help contains a new “Common Use Cases with Command Central” section, which provides the high-level steps for completing the following common tasks using Command Central:

• “How to Get Templates for Upgrade”

• “Install or Upgrade Product Installations with Composite Templates”

• “Install or Upgrade Product Installations with Stacks”

• “Update Licenses on a Number of Nodes with Templates”

The Software AG Command Central Feature Support Matrix is no longer published in PDF format. The HTML format of the Software AG Command Central Feature Support Matrix has the following improvements:

• You can search the product matrix table by product name and version.

• The product matrix table contains links to the individual product tables for configuration types, KPI types, migration types, etc., where such tables are available.

The Software AG Command Central Help has been re-organized as follows:

• The “Getting Started with Command Central” topic contains information that helps you understand, install, upgrade, and configure Command Central.

• The “Creating, Managing, or Upgrading Standalone Product Installations” topic includes topics all topics about creating, managing and upgrading product installations.

• The “Command Central GitHub Projects” topic includes all topics describing the GitHub projects related to Command Central.

The Software AG Command Central Feature Support Matrix is now available in HTML format.

All topics related to Command Central composite assets are moved from the webMethods Deployer Documentation to the Software AG Command Central Help in a new top-level topic, named “Command Central Composite Assets”.

The Software AG Command Central Help has been re-organized as follows:

• The “Automation and Template-based Provisioning” topic is removed to make it easier to search for topics. The following topics are now top-level topics:

  • “Using Composite Templates”

  • “Using Micro Templates”

  • “Bootstrapping Platform Manager on a Remote Machine Using a Template”

  • “Securing Passwords in Templates”

  • “Managing Database Components Using a Template”

  • “Deploying Command Central Assets to Integration Cloud”

  • “Template Definition Reference”

• The “Command Central Developer Reference” topic is removed to make it easier to search for topics. The following topics are now top-level topics:

  • “Using the Command Line Interface”

  • “Configuring Command Central and Platform Manager”

  • “Introduction to Command Central REST API”

For information about Command Central composite assets, see:

• Designer Service Development Help and Deploying to webMethods Integration Cloud about details how to generate and deploy Command Central assets to webMethods Integration Cloud

• Software AG Command Central Help and webMethods Deployer User’s Guide about details how to generate, export, and build Command Central composite assets to deploy on Software AG run-time components running on premise.

Administering Software AG Products using Command Central is a new web help that includes details about performing administration and configuration tasks in Command Central specific to a product.

Software AG Command Central Help is now updated with information about how to delete Command Central and Platform Manager logs in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Software AG Command Central Help includes new topics about:

• “Working with Software Stacks” and “Stacks and Layers Commands”

• “Using Micro Templates”

• “Template Definition DSL Reference” (includes the DSL reference template and micro-template reference)

• “Provisioning Assets Commands” and “Repository Commands” (includes the asset repositories commands)

The Software AG Command Central Help has been re-organized as follows:

• The “Getting Started with Command Central” topic contains the information that helps you understand, install, and upgrade Command Central.

• All topics related to tasks that you can do from the Command Central web user interface to manage your landscape are streamlined and much of the information has been moved to the web user interface, where it appears in the form of instructions and tooltips.

• The “Automation and Template-based Provisioning” topic includes all topics about using and developing composite templates.

• The “Command Central Developer Reference” topic includes reference details about the Command Central CLI and REST API.

All product-specific topics about administering product plug-ins for Platform Manager have been relocated to the product administration guides. For example, the administering Integration Server plug-in topics are now included in the Integration Server administration guide.

The Getting Started with Command Central REST API is no longer published as a separate PDF guide.

The Software AG Command Central Feature Support Matrix is a separate document that includes a feature support matrix for Command Central and all product plug-ins.

• The “Installing Command Central Using Bootstrap Installer” topic includes information about new custom options when running bootstrap installer and a section on migrating an existing Command Central installation using bootstrap installer.

• The “Provisioning Environments” topic includes sections that describe how to use composite templates to update or migrate product environments.

• The “Managing Database Components Using Command Central” is a new topic that describes how to create or migrate database schemas as part of provisioning or migration through a composite template.

• In the “Repository Management” topic, updated the sections about mirror repositories with information how to create, refresh, and update fix mirror repositories.

• The following product plug-ins for Platform Manager have added new sections:

  • Apama (“Administering Apama”)

  • Integration Server, My webMethods, and Universal Messaging (new sections about migrating product instances using the Command Central command line interface)

  • Universal Messaging (“JNDI Management”)