HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 69)

5 Using Insight Orchestration applications
Overview
Insight Orchestration applications support the roles of architect, administrator, and user.
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Designer enables an architect to plan and design multi-server, multi-tier infrastructures using
a drag-and-drop interface.
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Console enables an administrator to deploy, manage and monitor the overall behavior of
Insight Orchestration and its users, templates, services and resources.
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Self Service Portal enables a user to create infrastructure services from published templates.
Insight Orchestration Designer
HP Insight Orchestration Designer enables you, as an architect, to plan and design multi-server,
multi-tier infrastructures using a drag-and-drop interface. The infrastructure can include virtual
servers, blades, and physical servers. Insight Orchestration users can provision services using
Insight Orchestration templates.
An architect creates and maintains standardized infrastructure templates, working with the system
administrator to ensure templates are compatible with existing resources and business needs
enabling quick response to changing requirements in the business-defined set of standard templates.
In general, architectural tasks include:
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Designing both simple and multi-tier, multi-node service templates
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Capturing requirements for server, storage, and networks
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Publishing templates to the Self Service Portal for service creation
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Specifying costs and resources to support tracking and reporting of resources
To accomplish these tasks, you:
1. Research the requirements necessary to meet operational and business unit objectives
2. Create infrastructure service templates to meet the business requirements
3. Produce a bill of materials for each template, including the resources required to provision
each template
4. Publish the templates for use by the business units
About Designer
Architects can use Designer to create or modify service templates, which can then be published
for others to use.
Designer provides a graphical canvas to drag-and-drop logical resource objects representing
servers, disks, and networks. Architects connect these resource objects together to define the desired
networking and storage relationships for each group of servers.
Each logical object on the canvas specifies the requirements for the object; the requirements drive
the provisioning and ongoing maintenance operations that Insight Orchestration supports. Designer
uses validation rules to provide continuous feedback regarding which objects in the design are
not valid, and how to correct validation errors and warnings.
Designer maintains a secure cache in the browser of changes made during a design session. If a
session times out or the browser is closed, changes are preserved and are available the next time
the architect launches Designer.
Accessing Designer
To access Designer, you must:
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