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What is X-Ray

For containerization or modernization of the process, it is important to capture and analyze its static and dynamic behavior. The static behavior is captured during the first phase of discovery and dynamic in second phase ( called X-Ray ).

The dynamic behavior is divided into 3 parts,

• Startup behavior
• Runtime behavior
  • Accept an input and process it
  • Write to a database
  • Make a network call
  • ...
• Shutdown behavior

X-Ray allows Omnideq to capture and analyze the dynamic behavior of the process.

X-Ray is not supported for Windows

What is Non-X-Ray

For industry standard Java servers like IBM Websphere, Oracle Weblogic, Apache Tomcat and Jboss EAP, Omnideq has a unique technique to detect the dynamic behavior of the processes and applications under it called as Non-X-Ray. This technique is combined with phase 1 discovery.

Non-X-Ray allows the discovery to detect the following dynamic configurations of each java application running on the server.

• The Shared Libraries
• The Authentication Servers
• The JMS Servers
• The Databases
• ...

Though the X-Ray can be skipped for industry standard Java servers, X-Ray option is still available if someone wants to exercise it. However we highly recommend the Non-X-Ray technique for industry standard Java servers.