Comparison of Enterprise Manager and Command Central Features

The following table compares the availability of features of Enterprise Manager with their availability in Command Central. The Enterprise Manager features are listed in alphabetical order.

Area Enterprise Manager Feature Supported in Command Central
Audit

View audit log entries:

Order by user, type etc. Stream or archive audit file

No
Channel/Queue

Create a join form a channel ...

  • set name
  • source channel
  • remote realm/cluster for inter-cluster joins
  • filter
  • hop count
  • purge forward
  • archival
Yes
Channel/Queue

View and/or delete named objects

  • View outstanding events, configuration, etc.
  • view messages
  • purge messages
  • view status e.g. last eventID
Yes
Channel/Queue

Create channel ...

  • name, type, TTL, capacity, dead event store
  • JMS engine and merge engine
  • protobuf descriptor
  • channel key (with name and depth)
  • full storage properties
Yes
Channel/Queue

Update protocol buffer definition

Yes
Channel/Queue

View/modify incoming/outgoing joins

Yes
Channel/Queue

View and modify ACLs

Yes
Channel/Queue

Edit channel/queue

Full storage properties dialogue

Partial

Properties can be changed but any messages on the channel/queue will not be retained

Channel/Queue

Publish to any channel/queue

Full message properties dialogue

No
Channel/Queue

Create a copy of any channel/queue with option to edit specific fields/settings

No
Channel/Queue

View store-level connection lists and stats

Yes

Find under:

Consumer Info tab, along with other durable details

Channel/Queue

Bounce and redirect connections

Partial

Find under:

durables stats page, along with other durable details

Channel/Queue

Bulk apply ACL changes to folders of channels or queues

No
Channel/Queue

Purge events

  • from EID
  • to EID
  • filter
  • purge all
Yes
Channel/Queue

Perform maintenance

No
Channel/Queue

Snoop events on store

Edit and republish events with full message edit dialogue

No
Channel/Queue

Snoop (edit and republish) message content of events encoded as protocol buffers

No
Cluster

Create/delete clusters

Set name of cluster at creation time

Yes
Cluster Modify cluster membership Yes
Cluster

See clusterwide stats:

  • cluster matrix (state of each node as seen by other nodes)
  • event rates
  • connections

Partial

cluster members and their state can be viewed

Comms

Allow creating, deleting, starting, stopping of interfaces

Yes
Comms

View and edit all configuration options available on interfaces, including JavaScript configuration

Yes
Comms

View live per-interface level stats (connections, idle threads, etc.)

No
Comms

Set up via lists on interfaces

No
Comms Configure, add, delete, and view multicast configuration and state

Multicast configuration:

  • view configuration and state
  • configure, add, delete
No
Comms

Shared memory

View configuration

Configure, add, and delete

Yes
Comms

Bounce and redirect connections

No
Connection

View details per connection

No
Inter-cluster connections

Add, modify, view inter-cluster connections

No
Inter-cluster, joins

Add joins between stores in different clusters or on remote realms (unclustered)

No
Realm

Enterprise Manager tab Config

View and change realm configuration options

Yes
Realm

Connect to realms

Auto-discover other realms in cluster

Yes
Realm

Display IP/host and port of realms/clusters

Yes
Realm

View logs:

  • UM log
  • stream log to file
  • filter log
  • force roll log

Yes, with some additional options

Realm

Apply namespace filter to see only partial list of resources on realm

Yes

... but separate for channels and queues

Realm

View all channels and queues

 
Realm

View graphs of

  • event history/rate
  • heap memory usage
  • direct memory usage

Partial

Limited to:

  • Fanout backlog
  • JVM memory
  • Queued tasks of a server
  • No graphs
Realm

Event status

  • consumed
  • published
  • consumed/published rates
  • connection rates
  • numbers
  • current
  • total numbers of channels

Memory usage

  • total free used change
  • direct total
  • direct free

Partial

Find under:

  • channels
  • memory config
Realm

Bulk apply ACLs to all channels or queues.

Partial

... available using templates

Realms

View all known connected realms and their state

Partial

Stats are only shown in the channels

Realm

View ...

  • current connections
  • rate of connections
  • total connections

And for each connection see ...

  • protocol
  • user
  • host
  • connection description, including ephemeral port, language and name
No
Realm

Enterprise Manager tab JNDI

View and modify JNDI on the realm

Yes
Realm

Add/Remove realms from each other

Mount realms in namespace

No
Realm Import/Export full/partial realmXML

No

... but most configurations can be exported

Realm

Request

  • maintenance
  • thread dump
  • release of cached memory
  • roll of server log
No
Realm

Enterprise Manager tab Monitoring > Top

View:

  • CPU usage
  • garbage collection
  • heap usage
  • per channel stats on disk and memory usage
Partial
Security

Set resource specific ACLs on realm, channel, and queue.

Add/remove ACLs including security groups.

Yes
Security

Define user security groups with name and member IP

Add/remove members to groups, including other groups

Yes
Sites

Add/remove, modify sites

Modify prime site membership

Yes
Threads

View all threadpool:

No
Zones

Zones:

  • Add
  • Modify
  • Configure
Yes