Appliance Control Center for IBM Z & IBM LinuxONE User's Guide

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This publication, the Appliance Control Center for IBM Z® & IBM® LinuxONE User's Guide, is available for download here.

This publication contains information about the IBM Spyre Accelerator on the 9175 system.

Unless otherwise stated, throughout this document 9175 refers to the IBM® z17®™ (Model ME1) or IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 (Model ML1).

The use of the terms, server, processor, system and all models in this publication refer to the 9175.Figures included in this document illustrate concepts and are not necessarily accurate in content, appearance, or specific behavior.

The Appliance Control Center for IBM Z & IBM LinuxONE is an application that helps you securely deploy software appliances on an IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE (LinuxONE) servers. It connects to the HMC to manage next generation Appliance Control Center and Spyre Support Appliance for IBM Z & IBM LinuxONE. ACC allows the users to upload SSC-based appliances and updates. After upload, it installs these appliances and their updates. Appliance Control Center simplifies installation, control, and maintenance of these appliances.

The topics that are covered in this publication are:
  • Introduction to Appliance Control Center for IBM Z & IBM LinuxONE
  • Installing Appliance Control Center
  • Configuring Appliance Control Center
  • Configuring Multi-factor Authentication
  • Upgrading Appliance Control Center
  • Creating an ACC Restore Checkpoint
  • Using CA-Signed Certificates
  • Installing an Appliance using Appliance Control Center
  • Using Appliance Clusters with Appliance Control Center
  • Managing Appliance Control Center
  • Getting Logs of Appliances using Appliance Control Center
  • Updating Appliances using Appliance Control Center
  • Troubleshooting