Preparing to use Decision Center, Decision Server Rules and Events

Before you use the patterns for Decision Center, Decision Server Rules and Events, ensure that you have sufficient resources to run the patterns and accept the licenses.

Procedure

Check to ensure that you have sufficient storage and space to install and run the predefined virtual system patterns. The requirements for creating your own patterns are different, but the following table shows the requirements for the predefined virtual system patterns.

Table 1. Requirements for predefined virtual system patterns
Predefined virtual system pattern	IP	Memory	Disk	CPU
IBM® ODM 8.8.1 standalone development environment	1	8 GB	62 GB	4
IBM ODM 8.8.1 with IBM DB2® HADR	8	28 GB	226 GB	16
IBM ODM 8.8.1 with DB2 stand-alone	5	16 GB	130 GB	10
IBM ODM 8.8.1 with external Oracle	6	20 GB	122 GB	12
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Center with DB2 HADR	6	20 GB	182 GB	11
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Center with DB2 stand-alone	6	12 GB	108 GB	7
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Center with external Oracle	4	12 GB	78 GB	7
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Server Events with DB2 HADR	4	20 GB	182 GB	11
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Server Events with external Oracle	4	12 GB	78 GB	7
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Server Rules with DB2 HADR	6	20 GB	182 GB	12
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Server Rules with DB2 stand-alone	6	12 GB	108 GB	8
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Server Rules with external Oracle	4	12 GB	78 GB	8
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Center for stray node DR	11	36 GB	282 GB	20
IBM ODM 8.8.1 Decision Server Rules for stray node DR	11	36 GB	282 GB	22

Accept the licenses. To prepare the virtual system patterns for use, select the pattern type in the Pattern Types window, and from the License agreement field click Accept.

What to do next

As the runtime administrator, you configure the appropriate roles and access levels for users of the patterns. Then, you can grant the users access to the virtual system patterns.