Audience
This intermediate course is primarily intended for system administrators and system analysts who are responsible for installing the product and defining the automation policy that is used by IBM Z System Automation.
Prerequisites
- Good knowledge of IBM Z System Automation architecture and concepts
- Basic knowledge of IBM Z System Automation operations
- Basic z/OS operations skills and started task concepts
- Basic NetView skills
- Basic ISPF use
- JCL coding and z/OS data set allocation
Duration
2 days.
Course Objectives
This course introduces and explains the IBM Z System Automation (SA for z/OS) components, architecture, and concepts. Focus is on the System Operations component with Processor Operations as an optional topic.
This course does not include labs.
Course Content
- Describe the IBM Z System Automation 4.3 architecture
- Describe the components of the product
- Describe the product’s automation capabilities
- Describe policy-based and goal driven automation
- Explain the key automation concepts and automation policy for applications
- Explain operator interfaces including Service Management Unite
- Explain the request process, inhibitors, and orders
- Describe product details like resource relationships, groups, threshold processing, and message automation
- Describe end-to-end automation
- Describe Processor Operations architecture and implementation options