High Availability Scenarios With IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler And IBM Tivoli Framework

Highlights

In this chapter, we introduce the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler suite and identify the need for high availability by IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler users. Important ancillary concepts in IBM Tivoli Management Framework (also referred as Tivoli Framework, or TMF) and clustering technologies are introduced for new users as well.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

• "IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler architectural overview" on page 2

• "IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Management Framework" on page 4

• "High availability terminology used in this book" on page 7

• "Overview of clustering technologies" on page 8

• "When to implement IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler high availability" on page 24

• "Material covered in this book" on page 27