How the Way4 Application Server Management Centre Was Born

Once upon a time, life of a processing system administrator was simple.

A processing system located just on one server, or on two at most, if we wanted to be especially careful. The administrator took care of everything and life was good.

But as time went by, the world became more complicated. Volumes grew, so we needed a separate server for the database. New projects required more application servers, and managing them became harder and harder.

Harder, but not impossible. Yes, maybe we had to work overtime, sometimes we updated the configuration on the wrong server. To restart an application we had to remember where it was running.  It’s more complicated, but doable.

But as time went on, the complexity kept on growing.

Modern payment processing infrastructure is now dozens of servers or virtual machines hosting even more applications. It is easier to forget what is running where and make mistakes.

There are several ways of solving this problem, one of them is like this:

Increasing staff will solve the problem, but greater complexity also requires greater security. So along with additional administrators we now also need a security administrator.

The security administrator needs to monitor access and keep a security audit log. He or she should be able to answer these kinds of questions:

  • Who has changed which parameter, where, and when?

  • Who restarted Way4 Transaction Switch between Thursday evening and Friday morning?

  • Who switched on the extended logging mode over the New Year holidays?

All processing system administrators need to perform these tasks:

  • Effective management of multiple applications

  • Monitoring of all subsystem statuses

  • Access application log files

  • Effective management of the application lifecycle (installation, start, stop, un-installation, configuration update)

  • Maintaining transaction logs and performing audits

Way4 Application Server Management Centre helps Way4 administrators perform all these tasks.

OpenWay clients can use Way4 Application Server Management Centre to reduce costs associated with the payment infrastructure, simplify application auditing and minimize risk while changing configurations.

View all applications from a single interface:

Manage Way4 Transaction Switch services and view current statuses:

Monitor servers:

View and analyze the action log for all users in the system:

Edit the configuration for applications and servers:

View application log files from the browser:

Centralize distribution and configuration management:

Update all application versions and configurations with a single click, or one at a time:

Or update a selected group:

All these tasks are performed through a modern web application.