Corticon Web Console is a distinct installation option that creates a management server accessed from a browser to manage distributed application servers of various versions, each hosting Corticon deployments of their version , as illustrated:



Corticon's Web Console provides a central point for administering and monitoring your Java and .NET Corticon Decision Services.

Multiple Versions

You can manage several server versions at the same time, provided that each version of a server hosts decision services of the same version. That enables you to keep on older version deployment operational, and then set up the decision services in the newer version so you have a graceful evolution.

The Corticon 7.1 Web Console can manage 6.0 and later Corticon Servers. If your deployment contains different versions of Corticon Server, you can migrate to using one instance of the Corticon 7.1 Web Console to manage them all.

Through the console you can easily deploy individual Decision Services to one or more Corticon Servers of the same version. You can also group related Decision Services into an Application to deploy and manage them as one. Once deployed, you can easily monitor the performance of the Decision Services and Corticon Servers and view both individual and aggregated metrics.

The following image illustrates a Web Console view of a Decision Service with a graph of the responses and executions over a span of a several minutes:


Actions on Decision Services associated with a Server Group are automatically applied to each server member of the group that is running. For example, if you have a Decision Service managed by an Application which is deployed to a Server Group and add another server to the group, the Decision Service will be automatically deployed to the new server. This helps you scale up or scale down the servers in a deployment to meet demand.

The Web Console is a web application that can be installed in the same application server as the Corticon Server for single-server environments or installed separately for multiple-server environments. The choice is yours, depending on the nature of your Corticon deployment. The Web Console maintains configuration information and historical metrics in a local data store. The historical metrics let you see changes in the performance of your Decision Services and Corticon Servers over time.

This guide describes user activities in the Web Console interface, followed by an administrator's section that touches on architectural features and management functions.