HCL Workload Automation, Version 9.4

Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms overview

Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms delivers a high-availability environment where systems and applications are continuously monitored.

The recovery features of Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms reduce downtime that can be caused by various kinds of problems. You achieve high availability by applying the automation policies where you define common relationships between the various components. As a result, the overall time that is required to recover from an outage is significantly improved.

HCL Workload Automation consists of multiple built-in high-availability features that you use to switch components to other workstations in the HCL Workload Automation network. When combined with Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms, the recovery operations:
  • Are regulated by a third-party, which has more insight into the state of all critical components in the HCL Workload Automation network.
  • Are issued in an automatic fashion, while maintaining dependencies and relationships between all components.
  • Require less time, compared with a manual failover of all components.

The integration with Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms requires HCL Workload Automation V8.6 Fix Pack 3 or later and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms V3.2.2 Fix Pack 7 or later. The integration also requires that the HCL Workload Automation instance user is the same on all HCL Workload Automation instances.

Using Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms, you can control the following HCL Workload Automation instances and components:
  • Master domain manager and backup master domain managers
    • Engine
    • Dynamic workload broker
    • Event processor
    • embedded WebSphere® Application Server
    • DB2® (if DB2 was chosen as database manager)
  • Dynamic domain manager and backup dynamic domain managers
    • Engine
    • Dynamic workload broker
    • embedded WebSphere Application Server
    • DB2 (if DB2 was chosen as database manager)

For more information about how to integrate DB2 with Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms, see Redbooks® Tivoli® Integration Scenarios.