Prerequisite plug-ins for Cloud Provisioning
Cloud Provisioning uses the services of other z/OSMF plug-ins. Therefore, it is recommended that you enable these plug-ins prior to using Cloud Provisioning.
Cloud Provisioning uses the services of the
following z/OSMF plug-ins:
- Network Configuration Assistant
- Cloud Provisioning uses this plug-in to define network resource pools. Resource pools are sets of z/OS resources that are required by a software service, such as port numbers.
- Resource Monitoring
- Cloud Provisioning uses this plug-in for metering and capping. Metering helps you manage the use of resources by the tenant. Capping helps you limit the use of resources by the tenant.
- Workload Management
- Cloud Provisioning uses this plug-in to enable metering and capping, and for defining workload management (WLM) resource pools. A WLM resource pool associates cloud information, such as a tenant name and domain ID, with WLM elements, such as report classes and classification rules. You define domains and tenants with the Resource Management task in the Cloud Provisioning category.
It is recommended that you enable the plug-ins prior to using Cloud Provisioning. To do so, you must do the following:
- In your active IZUPRMxx member, ensure that the PLUGINS statement is uncommented and includes at
least the following options:
PLUGINS(COMMSERVER_CFG,RESOURCE_MON,WORKLOAD_MGMT) - Create security profiles for the tasks that are associated with each z/OSMF plug-in. IBM
provides a set of IZUnnSEC jobs in SYS1.SAMPLIB with RACF commands to help with
performing these changes. Each IZUnnSEC job is associated with a plug-in, as
follows:
- IZUCASEC
- Network Configuration Assistant
- IZURMSEC
- Resource Monitoring
- IZUWMSEC
- Workload Management
Modify the IZUxxSEC jobs for your environment. The IZUCASEC and IZUWMSEC jobs include commented sections for Cloud Provisioning, which you must uncomment.
Submit the IZUxxSEC jobs. Or, manually create the authorizations in your external security manager.