Chapter 8: Autonomic computing

Chapter objectives
After completing this chapter, you
will be able to:

Understand autonomic computing

capabilities
Understand the autonomic computing
framework
Know the autonomic capabilities of
large-scale commercial systems
Know the autonomic computing tool

Autonomic Computing Principles

Autonomic computing system
Autonomic computing framework
z/OS Implementation of autonomic
computing: Self-Healing
Repair - as in the Error Correction Code
(ECC)

IBM System z Hardware has spare units on

many components. This is called N+1

Use of spare PUs

Use of spare memory chips

I/O has multipath access

Concurrent updates
System Software

Data Replication

Coupling Facility Structure

Synchronous copy

Automation engines

Virtualization

Health Checking

Self-Configuring

msys for setup simplifies the management tasks for z/OS

software setup.

z/OS Wizards are Web-based dialogs that assist in z/OS

customization.

Capacity upgrade CPU provides instant access to additional

processors or servers, memory, I/O.

Customer-initiated upgrade.

Automatic hardware detection/configuration.

Automatic communication configuration.

Self-Protecting

LPAR, Certifications FIPS, I40-1 Level 4, EAL4, ZKA, ICSA Labs

1.0A

Intrusion detection IDS, PKI

Hardware cryptographic adapters

Digital certificates providing identity authentication

SSL and TLS (manages Internet transmission security), Kerberos

(authenticates requests for service in a network), VPN,
encryption

Tivoli Policy Director

LDAP (aids in the location of network resources)

Self-Optimizing

Intelligent Resource Director (IRD)

allows dynamic resource allocation on IBM

System z servers

Dynamic LPAR
WLM LPAR extensions for Linux

Parallel Sysplex Extensions

Sysplex Distributor
CP Coupling

BIND9 DNS-DNS BIND Version 9.0 on

z/OS
z/OS workload manager

 CPU, memory, I/O, TCP/IP QOS, Web

request management, and batch initiator

balancing

Summary
The New Mainframe:

is autonomic computing
Self-healing, self-configuring, selfoptimizing and self-protecting
Autonomlc Computing framework is
needed
Touchpoints are needed in the
framework
Autonomic Computing makes the IBM
System z to the most reliable
mainframe.

Key terms in this chapter

Autonomic
Autonomic computing control
loop
Autonomic computing
framework

Control loop

ECC

Effector

Monitoring

msys for Setup

Self-configuring

Self-Healing

Self-Optimizing

Self-Protecting

Sensor

SMP/E

Touchpoint