IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere which is designed specifically to automate installation and patching, configuration change management, and application deployment for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal.
Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere reduces the complexity of managing your WebSphere environment due to common pains, such as:
- Synchronizing release and patch levels of WebSphere products and consistently applying application configuration changes across complex WebSphere environments.
- Labor-intensive, time-consuming effort of manually repeating installation updates and configuration changes to create consistent WebSphere environments for development, test, staging, and production.
- Challenge of tracking configuration changes across WebSphere environments and the lack of a change history to support troubleshooting and auditing.
- Inability to quickly reproduce a WebSphere Application