Capacity Provisioning Task

The Capacity Provisioning task in z/OSMF provides a browser-based user interface for working with the Capacity Provisioning Manager on your z/OS® system. Through this task, you can manage your domain configurations and policies and request various reports of the status of the Capacity Provisioning Manager.

With the Capacity Provisioning task in z/OSMF you can:

• Manage domain configurations and policies:
  • Define new domain configurations and policies or display existing domain configurations or policies.
  • Install domain configurations and policies. You can transfer a domain configuration or policy from the z/OSMF repository to the domain configuration or policy repository of your domain.
  • Activate domain configurations and policies. You can change the domain configuration which the Provisioning Manager uses to control the domain by selecting a different one from the domain configuration repository. Policies can be activated from the policy repository. Optionally, you can also activate a domain configuration or a policy immediately after it has been installed.
  • Import and export domain configurations and policies. You can import a domain configuration from your local workstation or from the domain configuration repository of a domain to the z/OSMF repository. Export transfers the data in the reverse direction. The same can be done with policies, but they are stored in the policy repository on the domain.
• Manage connections to your Provisioning Manager. 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. The connection to the Provisioning Manager is established using a CIM server running on the same system as the Provisioning Manager. You can use the Provisioning Manager running on the same system on which z/OSMF is running or connect to a remote Provisioning Manager.
• View the status of your Provisioning Manager. The following status reports are available:
  • Domain status. This report contains information about the current setup of the domain that is managed by the Provisioning Manager.
  • Active configuration. This report contains information about the active domain configuration and its status. You can view a detailed status of the CPCs and systems that belong to the active configuration.
  • Active policy. This report contains information about the active policy and its status. You can view detailed information about each policy element.