For Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator Version 3.1 to work with WebSphere
Extended Deployment, configure a WebSphere Extended Deployment model in the
Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator data center model.
About this task
In the data center model, a WebSphere Application Server cell is
defined as a
management server cluster domain. A management server
cluster domain is a type of cluster domain that consists of one or more management
nodes that are used to administer one or more redundancy nodes. Each management
server cluster domain is associated with one or more
application tiers.
An application tier is a group of application servers that collaborate for
the purposes of workload balancing and failover. Node groups are defined implicitly
as properties in application tiers. See
Configuration properties for Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator
for
more information about defining node groups.
Perform the following steps
to set up the WebSphere Extended Deployment modeling in Tivoli Intelligent
Orchestrator.
Procedure
- Prepare the cluster domain in the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator
Web interface.
- Create a new cluster domain. The domain represents
the boundaries of your WebSphere Extended Deployment cell. Select Management
server domain for the Cluster domain type.
- Associate the device driver with the new cluster domain.
Select IBM WebSphere XD ClusterDomain for the device driver to
the cluster domain.
- Add the deployment manager server to the cluster domain.
Select the node on which the deployment manager is configured and click Is
management node.
- Create and prepare the application tier in the Tivoli Intelligent
Orchestrator Web interface.
- Create a new customer.
- Add a new application to the customer. Set the Locale to en_US.
- Create a new application tier. Set the Locale to en_US.
Associate the application tier with the cluster domain.
Attention: If
you are using the objective analyzer, you must have at least one server in
each application tier. To prevent the server count from going below 1, adjust
the Servers Minimum and Servers Maximum fields on the Application Tier Configuration
panel. Set the minimum field to be at least 1.
- Start the application. You can put an application
online by bringing it out of maintenance management.
- Prepare the software product in the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator
Web interface.
- In the software catalog, select the WAS_XD software definition.
- Modify the Package path value to equal your WebSphere
Extended Deployment installable image path. When you install the was-xd.tcdriver driver,
the default value of IBM-WASXD linux installable is
predefined. You can create installables for other platforms.
- Copy your WebSphere Extended Deployment silent installation
response file to the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator server in the <TIO_home>\repository\IBM\WebSphere directory.
Results
You created a data center model for WebSphere Extended Deployment
in the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator Web interface.