Apparatus, method, and computer program product for solution provisioning

• US 20110265087A1
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hui, Wu Yu, Chen, Ying, Zou, Zhi Le, Jin, Xing, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Qing Bo, He, Le
• Granted Patent: US 8,930,949 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources

Abstract

In one embodiment, an apparatus for solution provisioning includes a task manager configured to, establish a provisioning task and obtain a provisioning image for the provisioning task in response to a request, and a provisioning implementer configured to execute and monitor the provisioning task established by the task manager. The task manager configures and launches the provisioning implementer based on the provisioning image obtained, and the provisioning image includes configuration information and scripts used for executing installation, and information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts. In another embodiment, a method includes establishing a provisioning task in response to a received solution provisioning request, obtaining a provisioning image for the provisioning task, configuring and launching a provisioning implementer based on the obtained provisioning image, and executing and monitoring the provisioning task using the provisioning implementer. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described according to other embodiments.

Claims

1. An apparatus for solution provisioning, the apparatus comprising:

a task manager configured to, in response to a received solution provisioning request, establish a provisioning task and obtain a provisioning image for the provisioning task; and

a provisioning implementer configured to execute and monitor the provisioning task established by the task manager,

wherein the task manager configures and launches the provisioning implementer based on the provisioning image obtained, and

wherein the provisioning image comprises configuration information used for executing installation, scripts for executing installation, and information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of the following:

physical configuration information describing a structure of a physical solution and virtual configuration information describing a structure of a virtual solution.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts comprises script names and script options listed according to a specified order.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a parser configured to parse the provisioning image to obtain information from the provisioning image, wherein the task manager configures the provisioning implementer by transferring the configuration information obtained from the provisioning image through parsing to the provisioning implementer.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein before launching the provisioning implementer, the task manager determines that the solution requested is being or has been provisioned on a target server based on the solution provisioning request and returns a prompt message.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the task manager determines that the requested solution is not being or has not been provisioned on the target server and creates job control data for synchronization with respect to the solution provisioning request to avoid repeated provisioning of a same solution on a same sever, wherein the job control data at least comprises a solution name and an item indicating a transfer from an installation media to the target server.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the job control data further comprises an item indicating decompression of a provisioning image on the target server and an item indicating execution of a script.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of provisioning implementers, wherein each provisioning implementer is configured to provision at least one solution.

9. A system for solution provisioning, comprising:

the apparatus according to claim 1;

a repository for storing the provisioning image; and

a target server on which the solution is provisioned.

10. A method for solution provisioning, the method comprising:

establishing a provisioning task in response to a received solution provisioning request;

obtaining a provisioning image for the provisioning task;

configuring and launching a provisioning implementer based on the obtained provisioning image; and

executing and monitoring the provisioning task using the provisioning implementer,

wherein the provisioning image comprises configuration information used for executing installation, scripts for executing installation, and information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of the following:

physical configuration information describing a structure of a physical solution, and virtual configuration information describing a structure of a virtual solution.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts comprises script names and script options listed according to a specified order.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising parsing the provisioning image to obtain the configuration information in the provisioning image, wherein configuring the provisioning implementer comprises transferring the configuration information obtained from the provisioning image through parsing to the provisioning implementer.

14. The method according to claim 10, further comprising, before launching the provisioning implementer:

determining that the solution requested is being or has been provisioned on a target server based on the solution provisioning request, and returning a prompt message; and

determining that the requested solution is not being or has not been provisioned on the target server, and creating job control data for synchronization with respect to the solution provisioning request to synchronize and avoid repeated provisioning of a same solution on a same sever,

wherein the job control data at least comprises a solution name and an item indicating a transfer from an installation media to the target server, and

wherein the job control data comprises an item indicating decompression of a provisioning image on the target server and an item indicating execution of scripts.

15. The method according to claim 10, further comprising a plurality of provisioning implementers, wherein each provisioning implementer is configured to provision at least one solution.

16. A computer program product for solution provisioning, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:

computer readable program code configured to establish a provisioning task in response to a received solution provisioning request;

computer readable program code configured to obtain a provisioning image for the provisioning task;

computer readable program code configured to configure and launch a provisioning implementer based on the obtained provisioning image; and

computer readable program code configured to execute and monitor the provisioning task using the provisioning implementer,

wherein the provisioning image comprises configuration information used for executing installation, scripts for executing installation, and information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts.

17. The computer program product according to claim 16, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one of the following:

physical configuration information describing a structure of a physical solution, and virtual configuration information describing a structure of a virtual solution, and wherein the information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts comprises script names and script options listed according to a specified order.

18. The computer program product according to claim 16, further comprising computer readable program code configured to parse the provisioning image to obtain the configuration information in the provisioning image, wherein the computer readable program code configured to configure the provisioning implementer comprises computer readable program code configured to transfer the configuration information obtained from the provisioning image through parsing to the provisioning implementer.

19. The computer program product according to claim 16, further comprising:

computer readable program code configured to determine that the solution requested is being or has been provisioned on a target server based on the solution provisioning request before launching the provisioning implementer and return a prompt message;

computer readable program code configured to determine that the requested solution is not being or has not been provisioned on the target server and create job control data for synchronization with respect to the solution provisioning request to synchronize and avoid repeated provisioning of a same solution on a same sever, wherein the job control data at least comprises a solution name and an item indicating a transfer from an installation media to the target server,

wherein the job control data further comprises an item indicating decompression of a provisioning image on the target server and an item indicating execution of scripts.

20. The computer program product according to claim 16, further comprising a plurality of provisioning implementers, wherein each provisioning implementer is configured to provision at least one solution.