Create a problem determination scenario from scratch

Level: Introductory

Lennart Frantzell (alf@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Consultant, IBM
Mr. Steven T Frischknecht (sfrisch@us.ibm.com), Technical Consultant, IBM
Mr. Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), IT Consulltant, Backstop Media

16 Aug 2005

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This tutorial chronicles the building of an autonomic computing system that monitors a Java application to demonstrate the ability to detect and resolve issues within the system, a problem determination scenario. In the autonomic computing world, a problem determination scenario is one in which you can demonstrate how an overall system can detect, diagnose, and resolve problems. The Problem Determination Scenario, which you can download from the developerWorks Autonomic computing content area, is an example of a system that does just that by showing you how you can use the various pieces of the Autonomic Computing Toolkit together. In this tutorial, you can follow along and create each piece of our own simple problem determination scenario, which will give you an in-depth understanding of key autonomic computing concepts by using the Generic Log Adapter Runtime and Rule sets, the Resource Model Builder, and the Autonomic Management Engine.

In this tutorial

Over the course of the tutorial, you will learn about the following:

• Installing the necessary autonomic computing pieces
  
  
• Creating the Java application to monitor
  
  
• Generating the Common Base Events with the Generic Log Adapter
  
  
• Building and using Resource Models
  
  
• Using the Autonomic Management Engine
  
  
• Running the example scenario
  

Prerequisites

To follow along with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of autonomic computing concepts. The autonomic resource model and the application it monitors are written in JavaScript and the Java programming language, but extensive knowledge of these languages is not necessary to gain a better understanding of the autonomic computing concepts covered here.

System requirements

To compile and run the sample application, you will need the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) SDK, Version 1.4 or above. You can download the SDK from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html.

For the actual problem determination, you will need the following pieces of the Autonomic Computing Toolkit:

• The Eclipse Tooling Package (if you don't already have it installed)
• The Generic Log Adapter Runtime and Rule sets bundle
• The Resource Model Builder
• The Autonomic Management Engine

Duration

Under two hours

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