Integrating IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler with Tivoli Products

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The steps that are performed during the use of this proposed integration are:

1. Using a production analysis job, TWS plans the daily workload, estimates its

system use requirements, and prepares a resource request.

2. The resource request is sent to Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator for the daily

batch workload requirements.

3. Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator acquires additional servers, if the affected

applications’ Service Level Agreements are not violated by doing so, and

moves the servers to staging areas.

4. Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator provisions servers with appropriate software for

job scheduling requirements and makes the resources available to TWS.

5. TWS executes daily jobs on the assigned resources.

6. As TWS completes jobs, resources are returned to the applications as

needed to be managed by Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator.

11.2 Applying resources to ensure reliability

This scenario uses Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and Tivoli Enterprise Console to

provide resource and services to a failed application in the batch production plan

while keeping the batch window and associated downtime to a minimum.

Figure 11-2 on page 582 illustrates the integration steps that are involved.

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Figure 11-2 Integration with Intelligent Orchestrator and Enterprise Console

The steps that are involved for this integration are:

1. TWS executes a job (which subsequently fails).

2. TWS propagates the failure to Tivoli Enterprise Console, where it is analyzed.

3. Tivoli Enterprise Console executes a workflow for Tivoli Intelligent

Orchestrator to provision a new TWS workstation with a newly optimized

configuration that can accommodate the now-reduced batch processing

window.

4. When the provisioning is complete, Tivoli Enterprise Console notifies TWS to

restart the failed job on the new machine.

5. Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator removes the failing server from the network.

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