About This Guide
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About This Guide
This
Installation and Configuration Guide
explains how to install, monitor, and manage applications
running on PlateSpin
®
Orchestrate 2.0 from Novell
®
. It helps you plan the installation of the basic
PlateSpin Orchestrate components, to install them, and helps you understand how to use them in
basic usage scenarios.
Chapter 1, “Planning the Orchestrate Server Installation,” on page 9
Chapter 2, “Installation and Configuration,” on page 21
Chapter 3, “First Use of Basic PlateSpin Orchestrate Components,” on page 99
Appendix A, “PlateSpin Orchestrate Components: Install Patterns,” on page 125
Appendix B, “Installing the Orchestrate Monitoring Agent On Windows Machines,” on
page 127
Appendix C, “Documentation Updates,” on page 131
Information in this guide includes content about the latest release, which currently stands at 2.0.1.
For information about installing and using the Virtual Machine management capabilities of
PlateSpin Orchestrate, see the
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 VM Client Guide and Reference
or the
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Virtual Machine Management Guide
.
Audience
The contents of this guide are of interest to the following individuals:
VM Administrator:
A PlateSpin Orchestrate virtual machine (VM) administrator manages the life
cycle of the VMs in the enterprise, including creating, starting, stopping, migrating, and deleting
VMs. For more information about the tasks and tools used by the VM administrator, see the
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 VM Client Guide and Reference
.
Orchestrate Administrator:
A PlateSpin Orchestrate Administrator deploys jobs, manages users,
and monitors distributed computing resources. Administrators can also create and set policies for
automating the usage of these computing resources. For more information about the tasks and tools
used by the Orchestrate Administrator, see the
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Administrator Reference
.
User:
The end user of PlateSpin Orchestrate, also called a “Job Manager,” runs and manages jobs
that have been created by a Job Developer and deployed by the administrator. It is also possible that
the end user could be a developer who has created applications to run on distributed computing
resources. For more information about the tasks and tools used by the Job Manager, see the
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Server Portal Reference
.
Job Developer:
The developer has control of a self-contained development system where he or she
creates jobs and policies and tests them in a laboratory environment. When the jobs are tested and
proven to function as intended, the developer delivers them to the PlateSpin Orchestrate
administrator. For more information about the tasks and tools used by the job developer, see the
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Developer Guide and Reference
.
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