Sample Plan for AIX LPAR WebSphere Server

IBM® Endpoint Manager for Server Automation provides a sample Automation Plan for building a functioning logical partition with Websphere Application Server installed. Using this Automation Plan, you can provision a logical partition (LPAR) on a PowerVM® Managed System, install an operating system image, netboot the LPAR, deploy an IBM Endpoint Manager agent, and install Websphere Application Server on the LPAR.

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From the Domain Panel, select Automation Plans.
  3. In the Automation Plans dashboard, enter 148 in the filter text box and press the Enter key.
  4. From the Automation Plans list select the Build LPAR Websphere Server Sample Automation Plan.
  5. Click Copy to copy the Automation Plan and then save the copy that you have just created.
  6. To run the Automation Plan, click Take Action. The following table shows each step of the Plan and provides links to more information about each step.
    Table 1. List of Steps in Sample Plan
    Step Task ID Name More Information
    1 1018 PowerVM Create a Logical Partition (LPAR) Creating a Logical Partition (LPAR)
    2 3020 PowerVM Create a NIM client for a Logical Partition (LPAR) on a NIM Master Server Creating a NIM client for an LPAR on a NIM server
    3 1019 PowerVM Netboot a Logical Partition (LPAR) Netbooting a logical partition
    4 1581 Deploy Endpoint Manager Agent For more information on deploying the IBM Endpoint Manager agent, visit the IBM Endpoint Manager wiki pagehttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Windows%20Agent%20Deployment%20Tasks%20%28Console%29
    5 43 Install IBM WebSphere® Application Server (Network Deployment) 7.x on RHEL,SLES and IBM AIX®. For more information, see Server Automation Middleware content http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPMR3_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.sa.doc_9.2/ServerAutomation/com.ibm.tivoli.tpm.wkf.doc/Server%20Automation%20middleware%20tasks/sa_middlewareintro.html?lang=en
  7. Click OK to run the Plan

Results

The Automation Plan runs.