Java Advanced Management Console

Included with Java SE Subscription

Ali Parvini
ANZ Regional Solutions Consultant
Worldwide Java Business Unit
Oracle
What business needs from a Java powered landscape

Greater value: Applications on a legacy Java runtime should continue to run with the latest security and
performance updates.

Change management: Maintain independent schedule for upgrading Java in the enterprise while
ensuring applications run on supported platforms until upgrade.

Reduced IT costs: Applications need to be running on Java versions that have been rigorously tested on
all your required platforms and with continued support commitment, to ensure low IT management costs.

Business continuity: Quick issue resolution and support to minimize downtime. Getting even
intermediate Java releases to fix mission critical issues ensures smooth operation of business.

Ensuring compliance: Java applications should be compliant and use the latest security vulnerability fixes. It
should meet All quality standards should be met, and all releases tested and certified. This is a hard
requirement for many regulated industries.

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Common issues faced by organizations

As a system administrator, I want to I want to centrally manage current and

control the Java environment comprised older versions of Java used to run Java
of thousands of desktops and users. applications.

AMC

We have thousands of desktops running It would be great to manage the JRE

multiple versions of Java and all must distribution centrally, thereby avoiding
meet defined security standards. compliance violation.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Desktop Java Usage Java Runtime Installer

Management Environment Configuration
Management

Rule Sets and Rules Desktop Groups User Management

Management Configuration

AMC provides administrators with information about how Java technology is used in their enterprise.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Desktop Management
• How many computers are running an insecure version of Java?

• What versions of the JRE are installed on enterprise computers?

• Continue using legacy business applications with Deployment Rule

Set feature.

• Establish an allow-list of known applications.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Java usage
• Which Java applications are being run?

• Which versions of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) are used to run

the applications?

• How many web-based Java applications are being run?

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Java Runtime Environment management

• Manage both enterprise and non-enterprise Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) in managed desktops.

• Customize a JRE version and install on targeted desktops.

• Uninstall JRE from targeted desktops.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Installer configuration
• Supports Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installers for Windows
(.exe/.msi) and macOS (.dmg/.pkg).

• Installation options can be set according to the needs of the

enterprise.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Rule sets and rules management

• Control browser launched Java applications by creating and
distributing deployment rule sets.

• Create rules and rule sets based on usage information presented in

Java Usage Tracker reports.

• Import and manage existing rule sets.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

Desktop groups configuration

• Define desktop groups and associate desktops with one or more
groups based on desktop properties.

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Advanced Management Console (AMC) capabilities

User management
• Manage access to AMC with individualized permissions to console.

• Control permissions and access levels for every AMC user.

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Advanced Management Console – how it works

AMC Server and Database

Clients report usage to server Administrator access using web interface

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AMC elements

1. Database
Data storage to host:

• Agents, JRE statistics and information

about applications.

• Deployment rules and deployment rule

sets.

• Java installers.

Oracle DB 11g/12c/19c OR
MySQL 5.7/5.8/8.0

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AMC elements
2. AMC Server on WebLogic Server

• Collects the Java Usage records of the

Java SE runtime for all clients

• Web services to communicate with the

agents.

• User interface to configure AMC.

• Periodically downloads Java releases and

security baseline information from Oracle
extranet.

WebLogic Server 12c R2 or 14c

(Restricted use WLS license included with
AMC)

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AMC elements
3. AMC Agents

• Supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux

desktops.

• Low resource overhead.

• Automatically finds Java installations and

enables Java Usage Tracker.

• Periodically reports usage data to server.

• Downloads and applies deployment rule set

to the installed JREs.

• Can install, remove, and update JREs (Win

and macOS)

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AMC and Java Usage Tracker

 AMC agent automatically enables Usage Tracker on agent-managed

Java Usage Tracker information Windows, macOS, and Linux desktops.

• Java version
 On systems not using agents, Java Usage Tracker can be manually
• Application jar name configured.
• Host name and IP address

• Date and time

 AMC agents periodically collect Java Usage Tracking records from a file
store, encrypts and sends them to the AMC server.
• JVM arguments

• Classpath  Ensures that the Java usage data is collected for every Java installation
located on the desktop.
• Java Runtime location on the system

• Type of application  Gain insight into Java installations and deployments across locations.
• OS name and version
 Stay on top of security updates with an efficient tracking system.

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AMC and deployment rule set
Configure old Java version
only for known applications

Payment Processing
Application

HR Application

Unknown/ Unsafe Program <action permission=“block”>

Block unknown
applications from running
Control which JRE version
is used for specific
business applications

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Screenshots

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Home page

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Desktops – table view

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Desktops – properties view

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Java usage tab – application

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Java usage tab – application type

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Java usage tab – JRE version

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Enterprise installers – Windows

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Enterprise installers – MacOS

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Non-enterprise installers – Windows

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Non-enterprise installers – MacOS

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Rule sets

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Status view – commands

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Configuration view – agents download tab

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Configuration view – users tab

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Configuration view – desktop groups tab

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Configuration view – JAR signing tab

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Configuration view – settings tab

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Configuration view – agent settings tab

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Thank you!

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Resources

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