Administering Watson OpenScale

After you install Watson OpenScale, there are several options for customizing your instance of Watson OpenScale. In addition to that, Watson OpenScale supports deployment to multiple instances of IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Service configuration

Although Watson OpenScale should work with default values, you might need to make changes to some of these defaults based on your specific environment or needs. You can perform one or more of the following steps:

Task Required permissions Details
Creating a service instance Instance administrator Create additional service instances for Watson OpenScale
Configuring container timeouts Instance administrator Configure Kafka container timeouts.
Changing environmental variables Instance administrator Update environment variables for Watson OpenScale.
Retrieving log files Instance administrator Retrieve log files for Watson OpenScale.
Resetting status of ongoing model evaluations Instance administrator Reset faulty model evaluations.
Managing persistent volumes Instance administrator Manage and control data storage volumes.
Changing the data encryption key Instance administrator Update the key for encrypting data in Watson OpenScale.

Security

Task Required permissions Details
Exporting IBM® Software Hub audit records to a security information and event management solution Not supported  
Audit events for Watson OpenScale Instance administrator  

Monitoring

Task Required permissions Details
Monitoring Instance administrator  

Resource management

Task Required permissions Details
Manually scaling resources for services Instance administrator Adjust Watson OpenScale by scaling resources to support high availability or to increase processing capacity. Resources can be scaled based on predefined resource configurations.
Automatically scaling resources for services Instance administrator Enable autoscaling with the OpenShift® Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA). The HPA changes the resource allocation of services by increasing or decreasing the number of pods in response to CPU or memory consumption.
Shutting down and restarting services Instance administrator Manually shut down Watson OpenScale to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again.

Backup and restore

Task Required permissions Details
Backing up and restoring IBM Software Hub Cluster administrator Choose the correct method to back up and restore IBM Software Hub.

Data migration

Task Required permissions Details
Migrating subscriptions Instance administrator