IBM Tivoli System Automation


Tivoli System Automation for z/OS is a Policy-based automation solution to ensure the availability of applications and system resources.

Functionality

The primary objective of this software is to keep Resources on the z/OS system in a desired state of Available or Unavailable. Each resource can be individually controlled via commands to set the goal state by means of Requests. This goal state is stored, so should a resource fail or the system be shut down, it can be brought back to its previous Desired state quickly and easily. A Resource is any Application or System Resource which can be monitored and controlled.
SA z/OS runs within IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS, and uses its capabilities to interact with z/OS.
SA z/OS is IBM Parallel Sysplex compliant, and can manage resources across multiple systems within a Sysplex. With a Sysplex, SA can be controlled from a single system.
Resources have Relationships defined between them which ensures they are started and stopped in the correct order.
The resources are defined in a central Policy datasets, which enables all the definitions for an entire enterprise to be defined just once. A Build process is used to extract the relevant resources for each systems into Automation Control Files. As a minimum, a resource definition contains; jobname, start commands, stop commands, status messages, relationships.
SA z/OS is required for Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex

Supported Operating Systems

This software is available on following Operating Systems: