Capacity Provisioning task overview
The z/OS Capacity Provisioning Manager can help you to monitor your systems for capacity bottlenecks, and manage the physical capacity of your servers and the defined capacity and group capacity limits in use. Based on On/Off Capacity on Demand (CoD), temporary capacity is activated and deactivated with a policy that you define. The Capacity Provisioning task in z/OSMF provides a browser-based user interface for working with the z/OS Capacity Provisioning Manager. Through this task, you can manage your domain configurations and policies and request various reports on the status of the z/OS Capacity Provisioning Manager.
Figure 1 shows the main page for the Capacity Provisioning task.
To open the Capacity Provisioning task, in the navigation area, expand the Performance category and select Capacity Provisioning. In the Capacity Provisioning task, the Overview tab provides the launch point for the actions for which your user ID is authorized. If you are authorized to work with domain configurations and policies (Edit authorization), the Manage section on the Overview tab is shown. Otherwise, this section is hidden.
Key features
With the Capacity Provisioning task, you can:
- Manage domain configurations and policies. You can manage domain configurations and policies. Specifically, you can define new domain configurations and policies, or view or modify existing domain configurations or policies.
- Install domain configurations and policies. You can transfer a domain configuration or policy from the z/OSMF repository to the domain configuration or policy repository of your domain.
- Activate domain configurations and policies. You can:
- Change the domain configuration that the provisioning manager uses to control the domain. To do so, select a different configuration from the domain configuration repository.
- Activate policies from the policy repository.
You can activate a domain configuration or a policy immediately after it has been installed.
- Import and export domain configurations and policies. You can import a domain configuration into z/OSMF from your local workstation or from a domain configuration repository. You can use an export operation to transfer the data in the reverse direction. Similarly, you can import and export policies, but these are stored in the policy repository on the domain.
- Manage connections to your Provisioning Manager. You can manage connections to the Provisioning Manager, and use them to transfer provisioning policies and domain configurations to the Provisioning Manager, or to query various status reports. To connect to the Provisioning Manager, you must connect to the CIM server on the system on which the Provisioning Manager runs. You can use the Provisioning Manager running on the same system in which z/OSMF is running, or connect to a remote Provisioning Manager.
- View the status of your Provisioning Manager. You can
request the following report types:
- Domain status. This report contains information about the current set-up of the domain that is managed by the Provisioning Manager.
- Active configuration. This report contains information about the active domain configuration and the status of its elements. Besides the name and the status of the active configuration, you can inspect details about the CPCs and systems that belong to the active configuration.
- Active policy. This report contains information about the active policy and its status. You can view detailed information about each policy element.
For information about using this task, see the online help.