Enabling the IBM Workload Deployer library

To manage and deploy IBM Workload Deployer scripts, you must first enable the IBM Workload Deployer library in IBM® Rational® Asset Manager. The IBM Workload Deployer library is collection that includes asset types, attributes, a community, and an asset.

Before you begin

To enable the IBM Workload Deployer library, you must be a repository administrator.

Procedure

  1. On the Rational Asset Manager web client home page, log on with an account that has master administrative permissions for the repository.
  2. Click Administration.
  3. On the sidebar, click Libraries.
    Important: If the IBM Workload Deployer library is already enabled on the server, you cannot import the library again. Continue to the next step.

    If the IBM Workload Deployer library was imported but not enabled, in the list of libraries, click the version number of the IBM Workload Deployer library. Then, continue to step 6

  4. Click Import Existing Library. The Import Library window opens.
  5. Select Select a built-in library, and then select IBM Workload Deployer from the list.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Confirm that the information in the IBM Workload Deployer library does not conflict with assets or metadata that are in the repository or that are controlled by other libraries on the page for the IBM Workload Deployer library, in the Library Actions sidebar, then, click Enable. The assets, asset types, and asset attributes for the IBM Workload Deployer library are enabled on your repository.
  8. Click Administration to return to the list of communities in the repository.

Results

After you activate the library, the IBM Workload Deployer script is available as an asset type in your repository. Additionally, IBM Workload Deployer attributes, community, and a sample script asset are available in the repository.


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