z/OSMF – Working with z/OSMF Tasks z/OS 2.5
Duration
4 hours
Overview
This course provides the student with the skills needed to use some of the major z/OSMF features: problem management, workflow creation, software management and deployment, and cloud provisioning.
Audience
This course is suitable for Operations and Administration staff whose responsibility is to monitor and manage the z/OS system.
Prerequisites
Completion of the Interskill z/OSMF – Introduction and Basics course and general knowledge of system administration tasks performed within the data center.
Objectives
After completing this course the student will be able to:
- Interrogate Problem Management Incident Logs
- Describe How Workflows Are Configured and Accessed
- Create Software Instances That Represent Your Installed Software
- View Details of Products Included in Software Instances
- Deploy SMP/E Managed Software
- Explain z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning Concepts
- Create Software Services Templates, Domains, Tenants, and Resources
- Publish Software Services Templates
- Provision and Deprovision Software Services Instances
Course Content
Problem and Workflow Management with z/OS Management Facility
Incident Log
Viewing diagnostic data
Forwarding dumps to IBM
Removing incident entries
Using workflows
Workflow steps
Importing a workflow
Running a workflow
Workflow history
Workflow notifications
Software Management with the z/OS Management Facility
z/OSMF software management features
Creating software instances
Displaying products in each software instance
Producing software maintenance reports
Deploying system software using the z/OSMF
Types of deployments
Using the deployment checklist
Checking for missing SYSMODS
Final deployment configuration
Cloud Provisioning and Management with z/OS Management Facility
The need for cloud provisioning
Benefits of using z/OSMF for self-provisioning cloud resources
Planning for cloud provisioning
Job roles associated with provisioning tasks
Cloud provisioning marketplace
Creating a software services template
Defining tenants
Creating resource pools
Deprovisioning a service
Publishing a template
Marketplace administration