Sample Plan for building an LPAR with DB2

IBM® Endpoint Manager for Server Automation provides a sample Automation Plan for building a functioning logical partition (LPAR) and installing DB2®. Using this Automation Plan, you can provision an LPAR on a PowerVM® Managed System, install an operating system image, netboot the LPAR, deploy an IBM Endpoint Manager agent, and install DB2 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 147 in the filter text box and press the Enter key.
  4. From the Automation Plans list, select the Build AIX LPAR DB2 Server Sample Automation Plan.
  5. Click Copy to copy the Automation Plan and then save the copy that you 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. 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, see the IBM Endpoint Manager wiki https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Windows%20Agent%20Deployment%20Tasks%20%28Console%29
    5 23 Install IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition 9.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.