What does ControlTier do out of the box?
At its core, ControlTier is a framework that gives you a leg up in designing and implementing your own service management automation (not unlike how an application framework gives you a head start in building applications). But ControlTier is also more than just a framework, ControlTier also provides you with extensive built-in best practices and pre-built automation modules (contained within the ControlTier automation library). If you are using common technologies and want to follow common service management processes, a lot of the work is already done for you. ControlTier framework: • Command dispatching with built in features like node abstraction, logical naming, and parallelization (dispatches ad-hoc or pre-defined commands) • Security • Logging of distributed actions (uses log4j) • Management and organization of configuration data and environment details • Object oriented design makes it easy to maintain and extend your automation • Command line interface with interactive capabil
