Info Central, like most web sites, is designed to let you choose where you want to go and what you want to read about. For those who prefer a more linear user guide, or for anyone who needs to start from the very beginning, this implementation task flow serves as a "table of contents" to guide you through the documentation you'll need for your own implementation.
Depending on your automation needs, you may not need to do step 5b. Step 6 is optional.
Tasks |
Applicable Information |
Description |
1
Understand Cassatt Active Response features, functions, and components
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Cassatt Active Response Basic Concepts: Premium Edition, Data Center Edition
Sample Implementation: Premium Edition, Data Center Edition
Understanding Cassatt Active Response Network Manager
Understanding Cassatt Active Response Virtualization Manager
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Introduce the Cassatt Active Response environment, its physical and virtual components, and Cassatt Active Response service-level automation. For optional modules, see Feature Packs. |
Understanding Hardware: What Works Best with Cassatt Active Response
Understanding Storage Hardware Options
Understanding Storage Management in Cassatt Active Response
Understanding Automation: Power Management for Application Nodes
Understanding Automation: Node Discovery, Inventory, and Quarantine |
Describe how Cassatt Active Response leverages hardware features for optimal automation. |
Understanding Image Creation and Capture
Understanding Monitoring Collectors
Understanding Tier Configuration and Personalization
Understanding Blueprints for Deploying Applications |
Provide guidelines for deploying your business applications in the Cassatt Active Response environment, including setting Service Level Agreements. |
Alternative to Power Controllers
Alternative to NFS: Image on Local Disk |
Describe alternative ways to use Cassatt Active Response for sites that cannot implement full automation. |
2
Prepare for your Cassatt Active Response implementation |
Implementation Worksheet: Data Center Edition |
Helps you gather the values and information you'll need to get up and running with Cassatt Active Response. |
Recommended Hardware and Firmware |
Lists components that have been tested with Cassatt Active Response. |
Network Addresses: Calculating Requirements
Storage Space: Calculating Requirements |
Help you calculate network addresses and storage capacity. |
User Authentication and Management |
Describes using Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux to set up Cassatt Active Response authentication. |
3
Set up control nodes and network hardware |
Control Node Setup: Dual Servers (Dell/HP)
Control Node Setup: Dual Servers (IBM)
Control Node: Installing Red Hat ELAS
Control Node: Configuring Storage Access |
Describes details about racking, cabling, and configuring control nodes for use with Cassatt Active Response. |
4
Install and configure Cassatt Active Response
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Control Node: Installing Cassatt Active Response |
Describes how to install Cassatt Active Response software your control nodes. |
Online help
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Click the help icon in the Cassatt Active Response Controller for assistance with Cassatt Active Response settings and actions, such as adding switches and networks. |
5a
Set up application nodes and configure your business applications
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Application Node Setup: Dell
Application Node Setup: HP
Application Node Setup: IBM
Application
Node Setup: Nodes That Use External Power Controllers
External Power Controllers: Configuration and Management
Application
Node Setup: Virtual Power Controllers |
Describes details about cabling and configuring application nodes into your Cassatt Active Response environment. See Understanding Application Node Setup to help you choose which of the documents in this section you'll need for your site. |
Blueprints |
This page on Info Central contains a library of application-specific instructions for configuring, creating, and capturing images for use with Cassatt Active Response. You can use these instructions as is or as a template for configuring your own application. |
5b
Create manually allocated tiers
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Manually Allocated Tiers: Configuration and Management
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Provides procedures for putting running application nodes under minimal Cassatt Active Response Control. |
| External Power Controllers: Configuration and Management |
Describes what you need to know about configuring and managing external power controllers. |
6
Configure power management policies and schedules (optional) |
Contact support@cassatt.com |
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7
Manage your Cassatt Active Response environment |
Control Node Management
Understanding Control Node Failover |
Provides a brief overview and operational guidelines and links relevant to using control nodes. |
Accessing Cassatt Active Response Data for Use By Third-Party Monitoring Software |
Describes hooking up sample monitoring software to access monitoring data exported from the Cassatt Active Response environment via JMX or SNMP. |
| Changing Hardware on Nodes in Dynamic Tiers |
Describes how to make changes to hardware in the Cassatt Active Response utility computing environment. |
Tier and Image Management |
Describes concepts important to installing patches or new versions of software, creating new images from existing images, deleting, migrating, and troubleshooting images. |
Virtualization Manager Administration |
Describe the day-to-day management of services, resources, and software versions when using the Virtualization Manager. |
| Troubleshooting |
Lists common mistakes and provides resolutions for common problems. |
