High availability scenarios with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Framework / Vasfi Gucer ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gucer, Vasfi., Author.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing--Distributed processing.

Electronic data processing.

Production scheduling.

Computer network architectures.

IBM Tivoli workload scheduler.

Physical Description:

xii, 628 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

White Plains, N.Y. : IBM, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler architectural overview

1.2 IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Management Framework

1.3 High availability terminology used in this book

1.4 Overview of clustering technologies

1.4.1 High availability versus fault tolerance

1.4.2 Server versus job availability

1.4.3 Standby versus takeover configurations

1.4.4 IBM HACMP

1.4.5 Microsoft Cluster Service

1.5 When to implement IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler high availability

1.5.1 High availability solutions versus Backup Domain Manager

1.5.2 Hardware failures to plan for

1.5.3 Summary

1.6 Material covered in this book

Chapter 2. High level design and architecture

2.1 Concepts of high availability clusters

2.1.1 A bird's-eye view of high availability clusters

2.1.2 Software considerations

2.1.3 Hardware considerations

2.2 Hardware configurations

2.2.1 Types of hardware cluster

2.2.2 Hot standby system

2.3 Software configurations

2.3.1 Configurations for implementing IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler in a cluster

2.3.2 Software availability within IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

2.3.3 Load balancing software

2.3.4 Job recovery

Chapter 3. High availability cluster implementation

3.1 Our high availability cluster scenarios

3.1.1 Mutual takeover for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

3.1.2 Hot standby for IBM Tivoli Management Framework

3.2 Implementing an HACMP cluster

3.2.1 HACMP hardware considerations

3.2.2 HACMP software considerations

3.2.3 Planning and designing an HACMP cluster

3.2.4 Installing HACMP 5.1 on AIX 5.2

3.3 Implementing a Microsoft Cluster.

3.3.1 Microsoft Cluster hardware considerations

3.3.2 Planning and designing a Microsoft Cluster installation

3.3.3 Microsoft Cluster Service installation

Chapter 4. IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler implementation in a cluster

4.1 Implementing IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler in an HACMP cluster

4.1.1 IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler implementation overview

4.1.2 Preparing to install

4.1.3 Installing the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler engine

4.1.4 Configuring the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler engine

4.1.5 Installing IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Connector

4.1.6 Setting the security

4.1.7 Add additional IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Connector instance

4.1.8 Verify IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler behavior in HACMP cluster

4.1.9 Applying IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler fix pack

4.1.10 Configure HACMP for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

4.1.11 Add IBM Tivoli Management Framework

4.1.12 Production considerations

4.1.13 Just one IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler instance

4.2 Implementing IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler in a Microsoft Cluster

4.2.1 Single instance of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

4.2.2 Configuring the cluster group

4.2.3 Two instances of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler in a cluster

4.2.4 Installation of the IBM Tivoli Management Framework

4.2.5 Installation of Job Scheduling Services

4.2.6 Installation of Job Scheduling Connector

4.2.7 Creating Connector instances

4.2.8 Interconnecting the two Tivoli Framework Servers

4.2.9 Installing the Job Scheduling Console

4.2.10 Scheduled outage configuration

Chapter 5. Implement IBM Tivoli Management Framework in a cluster

5.1 Implement IBM Tivoli Management Framework in an HACMP cluster

5.1.1 Inventory hardware

5.1.2 Planning the high availability design

5.1.3 Create the shared disk volume.

5.1.4 Install IBM Tivoli Management Framework

5.1.5 Tivoli Web interfaces

5.1.6 Tivoli Managed Node

5.1.7 Tivoli Endpoints

5.1.8 Configure HACMP

5.2 Implementing Tivoli Framework in a Microsoft Cluster

5.2.1 TMR server

5.2.2 Tivoli Managed Node

5.2.3 Tivoli Endpoints

Appendix A. A real-life implementation

Rationale for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and HACMP integration

Our environment

Installation roadmap

Software configuration

Hardware configuration

Installing the AIX operating system

Finishing the network configuration

Creating the TTY device within AIX

Testing the heartbeat interface

Configuring shared disk storage devices

Copying installation code to shared storage

Creating user accounts

Creating group accounts

Installing IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler software

Installing HACMP software

Installing the Tivoli TMR software

Patching the Tivoli TMR software

TMR versus Managed Node installation

Configuring IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler start and stop scripts

Configuring miscellaneous start and stop scripts

Creating and modifying various system files

Configuring the HACMP environment

Testing the failover procedure

HACMP Cluster topology

HACMP Cluster Resource Group topology

ifconfig -a

Skills required to implement IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduling/HACMP

Observations and questions

Appendix B. TMR clustering for Tivoli Framework 3.7b on MSCS

Setup

Configure the wlocalhost

Install Framework on the primary node

Install Framework on the secondary node

Configure the TMR

Set the root administrators login

Force the oserv to bind to the virtual IP

Change the name of the DBDIR

Modify the setup_env.cmd and setup_env.sh

Configure the registry

Rename the Managed Node

Rename the TMR

Rename the top-level policy region.

Rename the root administrator

Configure the ALIDB

Create the cluster resources

Create the oserv cluster resource

Create the trip cluster resource

Set up the resource dependencies

Validate and backup

Test failover

Back up the Tivoli databases

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

"March 2004."

"This edition applies to IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.2, IBM Tivoli Management Framework Version 4.1."

"Implementing high availability for ITWS and Tivoli Framework. Windows 2000 Cluster Service and HACMP scenarios. Best practices and tips."

Includes bibliographic references and index.

OCLC:

62772148