Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. 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 -- 1.3 Value of autonomic computing -- 1.3.1 Software vendors -- 1.3.2 Enterprises -- 1.4 Core capabilities -- 1.4.1 Solution Installation -- 1.4.2 Common systems administration -- 1.4.3 Problem determination -- 1.4.4 Autonomic monitoring -- 1.4.5 Complex analysis -- 1.4.6 Policy-based management -- 1.4.7 Heterogeneous workload management -- 1.5 Summary -- Chapter 2. Introduction to Solution Installation -- 2.1 Software install complexities -- 2.2 Solution Installation basics -- 2.2.1 Concepts and components -- 2.2.2 Descriptors -- 2.2.3 Change manager -- 2.2.4 Dependency checker -- 2.2.5 Installation database (Registry) -- 2.2.6 Touchpoints -- 2.2.7 Installation program -- 2.3 Flow and relationship between components -- 2.4 Who can/should use it and how -- 2.5 Solution Installation contents -- 2.5.1 Obtaining the toolkit -- 2.5.2 Toolkit contents -- 2.5.3 Current capabilities and limitations -- 2.6 Summary -- Chapter 3. Descriptors and artifacts -- 3.1 Introduction to deployment descriptors -- 3.1.1 Schema file overview -- 3.1.2 Deployment descriptor structure -- 3.1.3 Root installable unit -- 3.1.4 Installable unit elements -- 3.1.5 IUDefinition -- 3.1.6 Variables element -- 3.1.7 Unit element -- 3.1.8 Topology element -- 3.1.9 RootInfo element -- 3.1.10 File and files elements -- 3.1.11 Feature element -- 3.1.12 Installation groups -- 3.1.13 Updates and fixes -- 3.2 Media descriptor -- 3.2.1 Media descriptor information -- 3.3 Artifacts -- 3.3.1 Action artifacts -- 3.3.2 Configuration artifacts -- 3.4 Summary.

Chapter 4. Solution Installation operations -- 4.1 Operations -- 4.2 Operations usage -- 4.3 Summary -- Chapter 5. Touchpoints and hosting environments -- 5.1 Hosting environments -- 5.2 Touchpoint interfaces -- 5.3 Touchpoint portTypes -- 5.3.1 portTypes for all touchpoints -- 5.3.2 Operating system touchpoint -- 5.3.3 WebSphere cell touchpoint -- 5.4 Summary -- Chapter 6. Creating an installation program -- 6.1 Basic flow -- 6.1.1 Common terms -- 6.1.2 Installation process -- 6.2 Writing a custom installer -- 6.2.1 Checking the environment as defined by the software package -- 6.2.2 Obtaining user input and overriding default values -- 6.2.3 Obtaining and validating the dependencies of the package -- 6.2.4 Installing the package -- 6.2.5 Registering the installable units -- 6.3 Interfacing with ChangeManager and other classes -- 6.3.1 com.ibm.ac.si.mr.MediaInfo -- 6.3.2 com.ibm.ac.si.checker.DependencyChecker -- 6.3.3 com.ibm.ac.si.checker.CheckerUtil -- 6.3.4 com.ibm.ac.si.checker.PropertySelection -- 6.3.5 com.ibm.ac.si.checker.SoftwareSelection -- 6.3.6 com.ibm.ac.si.instances.ParameterOverrides -- 6.3.7 com.ibm.ac.si.selections.FeatureSelectionInput -- 6.3.8 com.ibm.ac.si.instances.SoftwareInstance -- 6.3.9 com.ibm.ac.si.cm.CreateOperation -- 6.3.10 com.ibm.ac.si.cm.DeleteOperation -- 6.3.11 com.ibm.ac.si.cm.ChangeRequest -- 6.3.12 com.ibm.ac.si.cm.IChangeManager -- 6.4 Sample installation program -- 6.4.1 Manifest files -- 6.4.2 Installation program -- 6.4.3 Setup of installation program -- 6.5 Feature selection example -- 6.5.1 Manifest files -- 6.5.2 Installation program -- 6.5.3 Payload -- 6.5.4 Response file -- 6.5.5 Execution -- 6.5.6 Output -- 6.6 Summary -- Chapter 7. Creating and finalizing the installation package -- 7.1 Components of a package -- 7.2 Conventions to arranging files in a package -- 7.2.1 root(/) directory.

7.2.2 META-INF sub-directory -- 7.2.3 FILES sub-directory -- 7.3 Types of package bundles -- 7.3.1 Fixed-size removable media -- 7.3.2 Single zip file -- 7.3.3 Self-extractable single executable -- 7.3.4 Network download -- 7.3.5 Combination of formats -- 7.4 Summary -- Chapter 8. Step-by-step example -- 8.1 Installation objectives -- 8.1.1 Prerequisites of the package -- 8.1.2 Folder structure -- 8.1.3 Features -- 8.1.4 Payload files -- 8.2 Creating the descriptors and artifacts -- 8.2.1 Deployment descriptor -- 8.2.2 Artifact files -- 8.3 Installation program -- 8.4 Packaging -- 8.5 Running the sample -- 8.6 Summary -- Appendix A. 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 -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.