Preface

■ What you can do with JP1/AO

System operations require many operation procedures. The number and complexity of the procedures results in large workloads on the personnel involved. To improve this situation, measures need to be taken to reduce the tasks that depend on human resources and to improve operational efficiency. By deploying JP1/AO to automate operations of consolidated systems, you can improve operational efficiency and reduce the workload of administrators.

The following figure shows the basic concept of JP1/AO. To automate typical IT operation procedures performed in data centers and office systems, JP1/AO uses "service templates".

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■ What is explained in this manual

This manual provides an overview of JP1/AO products, and describes the basic usage. The goal of this manual is to enable users to use the products to automate IT operation procedures.

The basic system configuration consists of an IT operation automation server, a Web browser for operating JP1/AO, and target devices (connection destinations) to which JP1/AO is to be connected. If you want to develop service templates, we recommend that you prepare a development server separately.

For details about how to use JP1/AO by using a different system configuration such as a cluster configuration or a configuration where JP1/AO is linked to other products, see the topic "System design" in the JP1/AO Overview and System Design Guide.

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■ How to read this manual

This section describes the organization of JP1/AO manuals, and how to refer to the manuals according to your purpose.

Refer to this manual according to what you want to do, as follows.

Users who want to use the service templates provided by JP1/AO without change:

• 1. Setting Up the JP1/AO System

• 2. Automatic Execution of IT Operations

Users who want to customize the service templates according to the tasks to be automated:

• 1. Setting Up the JP1/AO System

• 3. Customizing a Service Template

• 2. Automatic Execution of IT Operations

For JP1/AO, eight manuals are available including this manual. This manual describes the basic usage of JP1/AO. In addition to basic functions, JP1/AO provides various functions to enable customers to perform operations that suit their environments. To learn more about the advanced functions and operations, refer to the appropriate manual as shown below.

Purpose	Manual to be referenced
Overview of JP1/AO products and basic usage	IT Operations Automation: Getting Started
Overview of JP1/AO	JP1/AO Overview and System Design Guide
JP1/AO functions
Checking what needs to be evaluated during the design process, and designing the system
Setting up a JP1/AO system	JP1/AO Configuration Guide
Linkage between JP1/AO and other products
Setting up a cluster system
Performing an overwrite installation of JP1/AO
Performing an upgrade installation of JP1/AO
Uninstalling JP1/AO
Migrating the environment in JP1/AO
Using JP1/AO	JP1/AO Administration Guide
Maintaining the system
Understanding the limitations of JP1/AO
Using the commands	JP1/AO Command and API Reference
Using the API
Service templates and plug-ins provided by JP1/AO	JP1/AO Service Template Reference
Developing the service templates and plug-ins	JP1/AO Service Template Developer's Guide
When problems occur	JP1/AO Configuration Guide
	JP1/AO Administration Guide
Checking the content of messages if problems occur, and action to be taken	JP1/AO Messages

A reference to another manual is written as follows: For details about something, see topic-title in the manual-name. Using topic-title as a keyword, search for the relevant section in the target manual.

Operations in each window assume the following environment:

• Server on which to install JP1/AO

  Environment that uses Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2

Note that the explanations in this manual assume that the version of the Web browser used for operating JP1/AO is Internet Explorer 10.

Some windows in this manual might differ from the windows of your product because of improvements made without prior notice. Please keep this in mind before reading this manual.

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