Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration -- 1.1 IBM e-business on demand strategy -- 1.2 IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator -- 1.3 IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration -- 1.4 Product design overview -- 1.4.1 IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration solution components -- 1.4.2 High-level scenarios -- Chapter 2. IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration provisioning -- 2.1 Web provisioning overview -- 2.2 Management server overview -- 2.2.1 IBM Director and RDM management domain -- 2.2.2 WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment management domain -- 2.2.3 TMR Server and ITM management domain -- 2.3 ITITO extensions -- 2.4 Data Center model -- Chapter 3. IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration scenarios -- 3.1 Initial deployment -- 3.2 Manual deployment of servers to the resource pool -- 3.3 Manual removal/scrub of servers from the resource pool -- 3.4 Manual provisioning of servers to cluster -- 3.5 Automated provisioning of clusters to servers -- 3.6 Blade insertion/removal scenario -- 3.7 Blade fault scenario -- Chapter 4. Planning and prerequisites overview -- 4.1 IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration implementation flow -- 4.2 Web infrastructure provisioning lab environment -- 4.3 Initial provisioning planning -- 4.3.1 Hardware -- 4.3.2 Software -- 4.4 Application provisioning -- 4.4.1 Planning for orchestration and provisioning of applications -- Chapter 5. Network considerations and implementation -- 5.1 IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration network overview -- 5.1.1 N-Tier design -- 5.1.2 IBM Eserver BladeCenter connectivity overview -- 5.1.3 Network logical overview -- 5.2 Configuration -- 5.2.1 Establishing a management session to the BladeCenter.

5.2.2 Configuring the IBM Eserver BladeCenter Management Module -- 5.2.3 Configuring the Ethernet switch modules -- 5.2.4 VLAN configuration -- 5.3 Data flows -- Chapter 6. Building the IBM Director and RDM deployment environment -- 6.1 Setup -- 6.1.1 Hardware setup for the management server (IBM xSeries 360) -- 6.1.2 Software setup for the deployment server -- 6.2 Creating the deployment server -- 6.2.1 Installing the operating system -- 6.2.2 Installing IBM Director -- 6.2.3 Installing IBM Director 4.1 Plus Pack -- 6.2.4 Configuring IBM Director for IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration -- 6.2.5 Installing IBM Director updates -- 6.2.6 Installing Remote Deployment Manager (RDM) -- 6.3 Creating an application source tree for Windows RDM tasks -- 6.3.1 Application source tree for the Windows solution -- 6.4 Creating Windows RDM images and Windows native installation tasks -- 6.4.1 Creating an installation image to install the operating system -- 6.4.2 Create installation images for applications -- 6.4.3 Customizing the RDM Windows Native Installation template -- 6.4.4 Creating RDM tasks -- 6.5 Creating Linux operating system and application images -- 6.5.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 image -- 6.5.2 Creating the Linux application installation source tree -- 6.5.3 Creating installation images for Linux applications -- 6.6 Creating an RDM Linux native installation task -- 6.7 Creating RDM tasks for deploying the IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration solution -- 6.7.1 Creating an RDM Custom Task to swap network interface cards connections to switch modules -- 6.7.2 Creating an RDM scrub task for blade disposal -- 6.7.3 Creating the RDM script tasks used for deployment -- Chapter 7. IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator installation -- 7.1 Installing the Management Server prerequisites -- 7.1.1 Installing the utility prerequisites.

7.1.2 Installing WebSphere Application Server -- 7.1.3 Installing DB2 Universal Database -- 7.1.4 Installing and configuring IBM Directory Server V5.1 -- 7.2 Installing IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator -- Chapter 8. Component software installation -- 8.1 Installing Perl -- 8.2 Installing WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment -- 8.3 Installing WebSphere Application Server ND Fix Pack -- 8.4 Installing and configuring ITSM server and clients -- 8.4.1 Introduction -- 8.4.2 Prerequisites -- 8.4.3 ITSM product installation on the WIP server -- 8.4.4 ITSM server initialization and customization -- 8.4.5 ITSM installation on the DB2 server -- 8.4.6 ITSM installation on the blade servers -- 8.5 Installing the Tivoli monitoring solution -- 8.5.1 Installing Tivoli Management Framework V4.1 -- 8.5.2 Installing Tivoli Desktop for Windows -- 8.5.3 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) -- 8.5.4 Installing ITM Component Services -- 8.5.5 Installing ITM for Databases: DB2 component -- 8.5.6 Installing ITM for Web Infrastructure: WebSphere Application Server component -- 8.5.7 Installing ITM for Web Infrastructure: the Apache HTTP Server Component -- 8.5.8 ITM Web Health Console -- Chapter 9. IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration installation -- 9.1 Configuration of IBM Director objects -- 9.1.1 Configurating the BladeCenter Management Module -- 9.1.2 Creating the IBM Director objects -- 9.2 Installation of IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration -- 9.2.1 Modifying event action handlers -- 9.3 Configurating the IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration -- Chapter 10. The IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration environment -- 10.1 Overview -- 10.2 Administering IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator -- 10.3 Blade insertion and removal events -- 10.4 Handling system failures -- 10.5 Operating system and software deployment -- 10.6 Provisioning.

10.6.1 Manual provisioning -- 10.6.2 Semi-automatic and automatic provisioning -- 10.6.3 Monitoring utilization -- 10.7 Customer service policies -- 10.8 Additional administrative activities -- 10.8.1 Re-initializing the server -- 10.8.2 Loading drivers -- 10.8.3 Importing XML -- Appendix A. Networking worksheet -- A.1 Networking worksheet -- Appendix B. Logical device operations -- B.1 Cluster.Add Server -- B.2 Cluster.Remove Failed Server -- B.3 Cluster.Remove Server -- B.4 LoadBalancer.Add Real IP to Virtual IP -- B.5 LoadBalancer.Add Server - DEPRECATED -- B.6 LoadBalancer.Create Virtual IP -- B.7 LoadBalancer.Remove Server - DEPRECATED -- B.8 LoadBalancer.Remove Virtual IP -- B.9 LoadBalancer.Rmv Real IP from Virtual IP -- B.10 ServiceAccessPoint.Copy File -- B.11 ServiceAccessPoint.Execute Command -- B.12 ServiceAccessPoint.Get Attribute -- B.13 ServiceAccessPoint.Set Attribute -- B.14 Software.Install -- B.15 Software.Uninstall -- B.16 SparePool.Initialze Server -- B.17 SparePool.Cleanup Server -- Appendix C. Load Balancer setup -- C.1 Linux installation -- C.1.1 Install preparations -- C.1.2 Linux installation using RDM -- C.1.3 Final setup -- C.2 WebSphere Application Server Edge components installation -- C.2.1 Verification -- Appendix D. DB2 server setup -- D.1 Linux installation -- D.1.1 Install preparations -- D.1.2 Linux installation using RDM -- D.1.3 Final setup -- D.1.4 DB2 server installation -- D.2 Verification -- D.3 Using an external database -- Appendix E. UserData.properties and XML templates -- E.1 UserData.properties -- E.1.1 Fabric name -- E.1.2 Device model for DLNK switches -- E.1.3 SNMP community settings for switch module -- E.1.4 Telnet access settings for switch module -- E.1.5 SSH username -- E.1.6 Blade server SNMP read community -- E.1.7 Initial default VLAN settings -- E.1.8 RDM server settings.

E.1.9 IBM Director settings -- E.1.10 WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment settings -- E.1.11 ITITO server settings -- E.1.12 TMR server settings -- E.1.13 Subnetwork settings -- E.1.14 Sample file -- E.2 XML templates -- E.2.1 RDM-Software-Stacks.xml -- E.2.2 Linux-Windows-Pools.xml -- E.2.3 WAS-Software-Stacks.xml -- E.2.4 WES-LoadBalancer.xml -- E.2.5 Customers.xml -- Appendix F. IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration file list -- Appendix G. TSM_Config_Tape.mcr macro file -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.