from each managed application environment in the data center. It captures and filters data from the application, operating system, and infrastructure layers and communicates the data to other components.

objective analyzer

This component determines the resource requirements of each application, and identifies trends and peaks in resource use. Each managed application environment has an associated objective analyzer.

global resource manager

This component receives requirements for servers or network devices from all the objective analyzers, and manages the overall optimization. It has two primary responsibilities: making optimal resource allocation decisions, and maintaining a stable application infrastructure. By considering the different server requirements for each application environment, it determines where to allocate resources.

deployment engine

The deployment engine is responsible for automated provisioning. It creates, stores, and runs workflows and communicates their success or failure in performing an operation. Workflows can be triggered by commands from an administrator, by external tools that send SOAP commands to Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, or by recommendations from the policy engine.

automation packages

An automation package is a collection of workflows, scripts, and other commands and tools that apply to the operation of a specific type of software component or a physical device. The deployment engine manages the deployment of workflows and associated workflow components in an automation package.

discovery technologies

A discovery technology is an application that performs configuration change detection. For example Tivoli NetView can discover new hardware that is added to the data center and is not defined in the data center model. For hardware that is already defined in the data center model, it can also identify configuration changes that occur outside of Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator.

management interface

Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator has two management interfaces: a Web interface, and a command-line interface. The Web interface provides a graphical representation of the data center, includes wizards to simplify configuration, and offers features such as reporting and task status monitoring that are not available from the command-line interface. The command-line interface provides access to Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator features with SOAP. Administrators have the flexibility to perform tasks such as creating scripts that run specific SOAP commands or setting up external tools to send SOAP commands in response to an event.

Prerequisites installed with Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator

Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator interacts with other components that are installed with it.

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