Preparing the Provisioning Manager

The prerequisites must be satisfied before you can successfully start the Provisioning Manager. These prerequisites include the runtime system and the systems that are observed by the Provisioning Manager. The runtime system can also be one of the observed systems. On the runtime system, you must:

Define data sets used for the runtime data
Set the configuration parameters to your chosen values
Create a started task procedure
Provide APF authorization
Define the security
Define a restart policy

If you defined alternative runtime systems that share the same resources, for example a common RACF® database, you create the definitions only once.

On the observed systems, security must allow the System Observation user to connect to the system and to query the information for management purposes.

Note:

The following definitions and examples use the default values for all the data that you collected in the planning step. If you chose different values, adjust the examples accordingly. For more information about the different values and their defaults, see Planning the domain setup.