Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

12.5 Considerations for the system hierarchy

Consider the hosts to be managed by JP1/IM and their hierarchical relationships.

In JP1/IM, the configuration management functionality is used to determine the range of the systems to be monitored by JP1/IM. You can also configure a hierarchy with base managers or relay managers arranged below the integrated manager, and agents placed below the base managers or relay managers.

The following figure shows a potential configuration in which a machine at the head office serves as the integrated manager, main machines at each branch office serve as base managers, and the other machines at the branch offices serve as agents.

Figure 12-12 Example system hierarchy

Using the configuration management functions, you can define the configuration of the system to be managed by JP1/IM as configuration definition information. This allows you to perform the following tasks:

Forward JP1 events to higher-level hosts

Execute commands remotely from JP1/IM - View

Execute automated actions from JP1/IM

Collect and distribute definition information

When using IM Configuration Management, you define the system hierarchy through IM Configuration Management - View. If you are not using IM Configuration Management, you define the system hierarchy using the JP1/Base configuration management functionality.

For details about these functions, see the following references:

When using IM Configuration Management:

Hierarchical configurations that can be set with IM Configuration Management
See 6.2.1 Hierarchical configurations managed by IM Configuration Management.

When not using IM Configuration Management:

Hierarchical configurations that can be set with the JP1/Base configuration management functions
See 7.4.3 Managing the system hierarchy.

Due to the risk of introducing inconsistencies in the data describing the system hierarchy, you cannot change the management mode after you begin managing the system hierarchy.

Carefully consider which mode you want to use to manage the system hierarchy before you begin running JP1/IM.

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