Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- 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.