What web server is using xFlow or Search Server

Products

• CA Service Management - Service Desk Manager
• CA Service Desk Manager

Issue/Introduction

what is the name of the http web server used by xFlow and ServicePoint for a R17.3 out of the box installation. Service Desk Manager works with 2 web servers: IIS or Tomcat. Question is: What web server is using xFlow or Search Server ?

Environment

Release : 17.2 +

Component : XFLOW INTERFACE FOR SDM

Resolution

Backend services is AKKA HTTP Server and is based off of the Play Framework

Step to obtain the AKKA version is as follows:

Version information can be obtained from one of the log file by navigating  to incident/search... microservice logs.  You can see a log message similar to:  Starting up, Akka version [x.x.xx]  or

Alternatively, you can navigate to C:\Program Files\CA\xFlow\APPS\Services\searchmicroservice-17.0.479\lib and review the properties of com.typesafe.akka.akka-http-core_2.12-10.0.13 file to get the current version of AKKA HTTP Server where <x.x.xx> is the major version, minor version and build number.

Additional Information

Previous versions of xFlow (up to 14.x) utilized the Apache and IIS web server components. 

See also:  https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.8.x/AkkaHttpServer