Provisioning on demand : introducing IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator

Provisioning on demand introducing IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator

IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager automate the traditional manual provisioning process, performance measurement, capacity planning, and infrastructure deployment. IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator operates in a closed loop that perfor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization (-)
Otros Autores: Manoel, Edson (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization c2003.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:IBM redbooks.
Materias:
Computer software > Management.
Business > Computer programs.
Electronic commerce.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009755088806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • Preface
  • The team that wrote this redbook
  • Become a published author
  • Comments welcome
  • Part 1 Fundamentals
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to on demand provisioning from IBM
  • 1.1 Overview of an on demand operating environment
  • 1.2 Automation component blueprint
  • 1.2.1 Provisioning
  • 1.2.2 Policy-based orchestration
  • 1.3 IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator
  • Chapter 2. ITITO and ITPM general overview
  • 2.1 Product overview and Web clusters
  • 2.1.1 Web clusters
  • 2.2 Architecture overview and terminology
  • 2.2.1 Terminology
  • 2.2.2 Architecture
  • 2.3 Integration with other IBM products
  • 2.3.1 Tivoli Management Agents
  • 2.3.2 IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager
  • 2.3.3 zSeries Linux
  • 2.3.4 iSeries™ Linux
  • 2.3.5 pSeries
  • Part 2 Preparation and installation
  • Chapter 3. Case study scenario
  • 3.1 The data center environment
  • 3.1.1 Data center schematic
  • 3.1.2 Application 1: Commerce
  • 3.1.3 Application 2: Human Resources
  • 3.2 Provisioning requirements
  • 3.2.1 Provisioning management systems
  • 3.2.2 Resource pool systems
  • 3.2.3 Data center and ITITO environment diagram
  • 3.2.4 First scenario
  • 3.2.5 Second scenario
  • 3.2.6 Further set-up activities
  • Chapter 4. Getting IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator up and running
  • 4.1 Installation process overview
  • 4.1.1 Recommended installation directories
  • 4.1.2 File system sizes
  • 4.1.3 User IDs and passwords
  • 4.2 Installing and configuring TIOdbsrv on Windows
  • 4.2.1 Creating the required user IDs
  • 4.2.2 Installing and configuring Cygwin
  • 4.2.3 Configuring SSH communications
  • 4.2.4 Installing and configuring IBM DB2 UDB V8.1.2 on Windows
  • 4.2.5 Installing and configuring IBM Directory Server V5.1
  • 4.3 Installing and configuring TIOsrv on Windows.
  • 4.3.1 Creating the required user IDs
  • 4.3.2 Installing and configuring Cygwin
  • 4.3.3 Configuring SSH communications
  • 4.3.4 Installing IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1.2 Client
  • 4.3.5 Installing and configuring IBM Directory V5.1 Client
  • 4.3.6 Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server Base V5.0
  • 4.3.7 Install the IBM WebSphere Fix Pack 1 and required fixes
  • 4.3.8 Install and configure WebSphere Application Client V5.0.1
  • 4.3.9 Installing IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator
  • 4.4 Installing and configuring TIOdbsrv on AIX
  • 4.4.1 Creating the required groups, user IDs, and profiles
  • 4.4.2 Download and install utility prerequisites
  • 4.4.3 Configuring SSH communications
  • 4.4.4 Installing and configuring IBM DB2 UDB V8.1.2 on AIX
  • 4.4.5 Installing and configuring IBM Directory Server V5.1 on AIX
  • 4.5 Installing and Configuring TIOsrv on AIX
  • 4.5.1 Creating the required groups, user IDs, and profiles
  • 4.5.2 Download and install utility prerequisites
  • 4.5.3 Configuring SSH communications
  • 4.5.4 Installing IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1.2 Client on AIX
  • 4.5.5 Installing and configuring IBM Directory V5.1 Client on AIX
  • 4.5.6 Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server Base V5.0 on AIX
  • 4.5.7 Install the IBM WebSphere Fix Pack 1 and required fixes
  • 4.5.8 Miscellaneous WebSphere Application Server configurations
  • 4.5.9 Install and configure WebSphere Application Client V5.01 on AIX
  • 4.5.10 Installing IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator on AIX
  • 4.6 Initial operations
  • 4.6.1 Starting and stopping the server
  • 4.6.2 Signing on to the Web Management Interface
  • 4.7 The Web Management Interface
  • 4.7.1 An overview of the ITITO navigation trees
  • Part 3 Logical planning, customization, and operations
  • Chapter 5. Logical planning
  • 5.1 Planning overview.
  • 5.1.1 Customer information
  • 5.1.2 Processes
  • 5.1.3 Assets
  • 5.2 Data-gathering process
  • 5.2.1 Gathering the customer data (or line of business data)
  • 5.2.2 Gathering processes information
  • 5.2.3 Infrastructure assets information
  • 5.3 ITITO implementation planning
  • 5.3.1 Clusters organization
  • 5.3.2 Resource pools
  • 5.3.3 Provisioning
  • 5.3.4 Workflows
  • 5.3.5 Software stacks
  • 5.3.6 Service access points
  • 5.3.7 Networks
  • 5.4 Important considerations
  • Chapter 6. Data Center Model
  • 6.1 The ITITO Data Center Model
  • 6.2 Data Center Model asset relationships
  • 6.3 Building a Data Center Model
  • 6.3.1 Resetting the Data Center Model
  • 6.3.2 The fabric/network infrastructure
  • 6.3.3 Software products and software stacks
  • 6.3.4 The servers and the resource pools
  • 6.3.5 Customers and their applications
  • 6.4 Building the Data Center Model with XML
  • 6.4.1 XML import
  • 6.4.2 Other Data Center Model objects
  • 6.4.3 Other XML files
  • 6.5 Looking ahead
  • Chapter 7. Workflows
  • 7.1 Workflow description
  • 7.1.1 What is a workflow?
  • 7.1.2 What can you do with workflows?
  • 7.1.3 How are workflows controlled?
  • 7.1.4 Workflow transitions and variables
  • 7.1.5 Workflow naming conventions
  • 7.2 Building workflows
  • 7.2.1 Creating a workflow
  • 7.2.2 Cloning a workflow
  • 7.2.3 Editing a workflow
  • 7.2.4 Adding a transition
  • 7.2.5 Using variables in workflows
  • 7.2.6 Assign a workflow to ITITO objects
  • 7.2.7 Remove workflows assigned to an ITITO object
  • 7.2.8 Exporting a workflow to an XML file
  • 7.2.9 Importing a workflow from an XML file
  • 7.2.10 Deleting a workflow
  • 7.3 Workflow execution and results
  • 7.3.1 Workflow execution and results: failed execution
  • 7.3.2 Workflow execution and results: successful execution
  • 7.3.3 Recovery in workflows
  • 7.4 Case study scenario workflows.
  • 7.4.1 The ITSO Cluster.Add Server workflow
  • 7.4.2 The ITSO Cluster.Remove Server workflow
  • 7.4.3 The ITSO Cluster.Add Repaired Server workflow
  • 7.4.4 The ITSO Cluster.Remove Failed Server workflow
  • 7.4.5 The ITSO WebApp Install workflow
  • Chapter 8. Automation packages
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.1.1 What is an automation package?
  • 8.2 Automation package anatomy
  • 8.2.1 Directories
  • 8.2.2 The manifest file
  • 8.3 Managing automation packages
  • 8.3.1 The Web-based interface
  • 8.3.2 The tc-driver-manager command line interface
  • 8.4 Packaging and deploying an automation package
  • 8.4.1 Setting up the environment for packaging
  • 8.4.2 Exporting the automation package workflows
  • 8.4.3 Creating the automation package documentation: readme file
  • 8.4.4 Creating the automation package manifest file
  • 8.4.5 Pre-package verification task
  • 8.4.6 Packaging the automation package into a .tcdriver file
  • 8.4.7 Deploying the automation package
  • 8.4.8 Verifying deployment
  • 8.5 Using the ITSO Cluster Driver automation package
  • Chapter 9. Operations
  • 9.1 Overview of operations
  • 9.2 Deployments and Deployment Recommendations
  • 9.2.1 Deployments
  • 9.2.2 Recommendations
  • 9.2.3 Viewing recommendations and deployment history in the GUI
  • 9.2.4 Server status
  • 9.3 Operating mode
  • 9.3.1 Manual mode
  • 9.3.2 Semi-automatic mode
  • 9.3.3 Automatic mode
  • 9.3.4 Setting the operating mode
  • 9.4 Service level agreements
  • 9.5 Deployment decision making
  • 9.5.1 Minimum and maximum overflow servers
  • 9.5.2 CPU utilization at the Application Controller level
  • 9.5.3 Optimization bypass
  • 9.5.4 Resource Broker optimization
  • 9.5.5 Resource Broker variables
  • 9.6 Operation at server failure
  • 9.7 Software stack management
  • 9.7.1 Creating software patches
  • 9.7.2 Installing patches on individual servers.
  • 9.7.3 Adding patches to software stacks
  • 9.7.4 Installing patches on application clusters and applications
  • 9.7.5 Viewing patch installations
  • 9.8 Case study customer scenarios
  • 9.8.1 First scenario
  • 9.8.2 Second scenario
  • 9.9 ITITO log files and logging
  • 9.9.1 ITITO log files
  • 9.9.2 Useful third-party log files
  • 9.9.3 Configuring log files
  • 9.10 Starting and stopping the server
  • 9.11 User management
  • 9.11.1 User scenario
  • 9.11.2 Adding a new user
  • 9.11.3 Editing a user profile
  • 9.11.4 Viewing user data
  • 9.11.5 Removing a user
  • 9.12 Reports
  • Part 4 Appendixes
  • Appendix A. Out-of-the-box logical operations, automation packages, and workflows
  • Logical operations
  • Automation packages
  • Workflows
  • Appendix B. ITITO database schema
  • ITITO database schema
  • Appendix C. The ITSO Data Center Model
  • The ITSO Data Center Model
  • Appendix D. Additional material
  • Locating the Web material
  • Using the Web material
  • System requirements for downloading the Web material
  • How to use the Web material
  • Related publications
  • IBM Redbooks
  • Other publications
  • Online resources
  • How to get IBM Redbooks
  • Help from IBM
  • Index
  • Back cover.

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