iCATs
IT Process Automation
iCATs is a webapplication with which you can easily centralize, automate and schedule your IT processes and run them on as many remote systems as you want without the need of agents! Controlling and monitoring your IT processes via iCATs webbrowser interface makes it easy to handle processes and be up to date about their status at any time.
Product
iCATs is a multi-client web application for the automation and scheduling of IT processes.
iCATs enables you to run any kind of script (shell, perl, java, rman, etc.) started by a schedule (job scheduling) or manually, individually or in relation to each other (return status) on any number of target systems (Linux / Windows) without any need for agents on the remote target hosts.
iCATs was developed with Apex (Oracle Application Express) and runs already on Oracle Express edition (no license costs). Apex is freely available without additional licensing costs.
Features
Projects and their processes are defined for each client. Each iCATs user has access to exactly those clients and their processes for which he is entitled to. A client may be a customer or a department within the company.
Scripts of any kind and user-defined commands can be uploaded, versioned and stored in iCATs. They can be run locally (where iCATs is installed) and on as many remote target systems (Unix / Windows) as you want, immediately or in the future, once or at regular intervals, manually triggered or controlled by a job scheduler.
iCATs can also be used to copy files of any kind, stored in iCATs, from iCATs to remote target systems.
Job schedules can easily be created, combined with each other, and assigned to any task.
Processes, triggered manually or via schedule, are recorded according to the chosen log level. Tracking the progress of a process is very simple via Web browser GUI at any point of time. Process monitoring also happens automatically via email notification.
Each connection of iCATs to a remote target system is made via secure ssh2 tunnel. There is no need to install agents in order to run a script on the target system. All passwords whether iCATs user passwords or passwords of stored connections to remote target systems are encrypted.
All files that are uploaded into iCATs are versioned. The versioning functionality of iCATs enables you to store any files in iCATs centrally and identified by a version number.