A practical guide to the IBM autonomic computing toolkit / [Bart Jacob ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacob, Bart.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomic computing.

IBM computers.

Physical Description:

xvi, 268 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Raleigh, NC : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction to Autonomic Computing

1.1 What is autonomic computing?

1.1.1 Guiding principles

1.2 Autonomic computing concepts

1.2.1 Managed resources

1.2.2 Autonomic manager

1.2.3 Autonomic manager collaboration

1.2.4 Autonomic manager knowledge

1.2.5 Policies for autonomic managers

1.3 Evolving to autonomic computing

1.3.1 Architectural levels of maturity

1.4 Value of autonomic computing

1.4.1 Software vendors

1.4.2 Enterprises

1.5 Architectural overview

1.5.1 Solution install

1.5.2 Common systems administration

1.5.3 Problem determination

1.5.4 Autonomic monitoring

1.5.5 Complex analysis

1.5.6 Policy-based management

1.5.7 Heterogeneous workload management

1.5.8 Summary

Chapter 2. Introduction to the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit

2.1 Key component areas

2.2 Autonomic Computing Toolkit technologies

2.3 Summary

Chapter 3. Steps to enable a managed resource

3.1 Overview of a rudimentary control loop system

3.2 Generating information or events (Steps 1 and 2)

3.3 Sending events (Step 3)

3.4 Control loop (Step 4)

3.5 Management actions (Step 5)

3.6 Summary

Part 2 Tools and APIs

Chapter 4. Common Base Events and touchpoints

4.1 What is a Common Base Event?

4.2 Common Base Event schema

4.2.1 Example of a Common Base Event

4.3 Generating Common Base Events

4.4 Generating Common Base Events using APIs

4.4.1 Create the Common Base Event

4.4.2 Filling in the Common Base Event

4.4.3 Using sendEvent() to send the Common Base Event

4.5 Managed resource and manager touchpoints

4.5.1 The interface IManagedResourceTouchpoint.

4.5.2 The interface IAutonomicManagerTouchpointSupport

4.6 Summary

Chapter 5. Generic Log Adapter and Log and Trace Analyzer

5.1 Generic Log Adapter

5.1.1 Generic Log Adapter configuration file overview

5.1.2 Creating the adapter configuration file

5.1.3 Editing the adapter configuration file

5.1.4 Testing the adapter configuration file

5.1.5 Deploying and running the adapter configuration file

5.1.6 Writing a custom outputter

5.2 Log and Trace Analyzer

5.2.1 Adding the log file to Log and Trace Analyzer

5.2.2 Analyze log events created by one product

5.2.3 Correlate log events from different products

5.2.4 Using the symptom database to analyze log files

5.3 Summary

Chapter 6. Resource models

6.1 Introduction to resource models

6.2 Designing an autonomic resource model

6.2.1 Defining the ITSO_CBELog_Monitor resource model

6.3 Implementing the ITSO_CBELog_Monitor resource model

6.3.1 Managed Object Format (MOF)

6.3.2 Instrumentation Library Type (ILT) Java class

6.3.3 Generating the resource model using Resource Model Builder

6.3.4 Understanding and editing the decision tree JavaScript

6.4 ITSO_CBESocket_Monitor resource model

6.4.1 Resource model design

6.4.2 Parameters for ITSO_CBESocket_Monitor resource model

6.4.3 Creating the ITSO_CBESocket_Monitor resource model

6.4.4 Using the Resource Model Builder

6.5 Contents of Resource Model Package

6.6 Summary

Chapter 7. Autonomic Management Engine

7.1 Introduction to Autonomic Management Engine

7.2 Writing an embedding application for AME

7.2.1 Designing the embedding application

7.2.2 Building and launching the AME embedding application

7.3 Simple Agent Reference Application (SARA)

7.4 Advanced topics

7.4.1 Adding actions and events to resource models.

7.4.2 Setting up the configuration files and environment

7.5 Summary

Part 3 Samples

Chapter 8. Application examples

8.1 Sample application

8.2 Maturity level 2 - Using GLA and LTA

8.3 Maturity level 4 - Using GLA and AME

8.4 Generating Common Base Events directly

8.5 Adding sockets to communicate events to the autonomic manager

8.6 Using a database to store received events

8.7 Summary

Part 4 Appendixes

Appendix A. Regular expressions

What is a regular expression?

How they work

Regular expressions: most commonly used matching characters

Regular expression examples

Appendix B. 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.

Notes:

"April 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342190