Prerequisites for the Business Implementation

While you, as the business area coordinator, are beginning the planning of the AAI business implementation, your AAI administrators can prepare the technical environments for your implementation. This topic lists the technical prerequisites for the AAI business implementation as well as the resource requirements for the project.

Technical prerequisites

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Ensure that your AAI administrator prepared the following and they are ready to use:

  • A complete installation and configuration of the following:
    • The AAI platform, including the databases
    • Any required connectors for schedulers that you want to use
    • The reporting engine
  • Also ensure that in the installation the following are defined:
    • All schedulers
    • An AAI user for you, the business area coordinator, with full administrator rights to all AAI objects
  • Finally, ensure that this environment is copied to several instances. To get through the entire implementation and for future enhancements, you need at least the following:  
    • A playground environment to use when exploring AAI and for the initial test iterations that you do with a limited test group
    • A test environment to use to test the final with all teams while they continue to work in parallel directly in their schedulers as they have been doing until now
    • The production environment when you go live with all teams

For information, see Installation and Upgrade and Workload Automation / Scheduler Integration through Connectors.

Resource Requirements

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Although you, as the business area coordinator, are the project manager and you make the decisions for how AAI is implemented in your organization, you need to include other people in the project. Make sure to reserve their time for various activities in the company resource planning.

Among the people you will need to consult or include in activities are the following:

  • The AAI administrator, who also maintains the AAI environments after initial technical implementation
  • Scheduler experts who understand the loads and jobs on their servers
  • Shift supervisors who know their operations staff and how the teams work
  • Process owners who will depend on AAI to support their customers and meet their SLAs
  • Managers of the company workload automation efforts who have requirements and objectives for AAI

For more information, see User Roles in AAI.

Tip:

If you have an assigned Broadcom field engineer (sometimes called a solutions engineer), do take advantage of that person's support during the implementation. This support is particularly helpful in an organization that is implementing AAI over many teams, locations, schedulers, and applications.

Next step:

Stage 1: Planning the Business Implementation