Provisioning manager

On the Provisioning Manager page you can manage connections to Provisioning Managers and use a connection to access a domain. You can define and modify connections, and use a selected connection to view the status of a Provisioning Manager.

The Provisioning Manager is the component of Capacity Provisioning which, based on your active policy and domain configuration, monitors the domain and performs provisioning and deprovisioning requests for additional capacity. The Provisioning Manager monitors the workload on a set of z/OS® systems and organizes the provisioning of additional capacity to these systems when required. You define the systems to be observed in a domain configuration file. Details of additional capacity and the rules for its provisioning are stored in a policy file. These files are managed using the Capacity Provisioning task.

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. You can use the Provisioning Manager running on the same system on which z/OSMF is running or connect to a remote Provisioning Manager.

Before connecting to a Provisioning Manager, the following prerequisites must be met:
  • You must be a member of the Provisioning Manager query security group.
  • You can only communicate with a Provisioning Manager which delivers report information, this is the case if it runs on a system with z/OS V1R12 or higher.
  • If you want to install and activate policies or domain configurations, you must also be a member of the Provisioning Manager control security group.

The Provisioning Manager runs on a z/OS system and controls one domain at a time. To ensure availability, you can install and set up the Provisioning Manager on more than one system. Only one instance of the Provisioning Manager can be active at a time. You must create a connection definition for each system on which the Provisioning Manager can run to be able to access the Provisioning Manager when it runs on that system.

The connections that have been defined in z/OSMF are stored in the z/OSMF repository and are listed in the Connections table on the Provisioning Manager page.