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