Design Studio
Key Features
- Intuitive, drag-and-drop GUI
- Adaptable and re-usable automation designs
- Bottom-up and top-down approach
- Integrates easily with existing and new systems (scripts, SNMP, JMX, WMI, IPMI)
Benefits of the EMS 3.0 Design Studio Include:
Simplified Wizard-Driven Workflow Design:
- Out of the Box palette of the most often used IT elements, including servers, devices, applications, and management tools
- No programming experience required to automate IT run book procedures. Context-sensitive wizards make easy work of specifying values and parameters
- On-screen "Drag and Click" rubber-band style definition of error and exception handling
- Dynamic Query wizards (based on system events) for interrogating IT elements - Comprehensive tooltips for workflow steps and workflow links
- Intuitive "spreadsheet-style" wizard formula builder that allows the user to define workflow behavior based on system event values at runtime
Enhanced Workflow Organization:
- "Service Organizer" provides an easily navigated pictorial view of relationships between IT elements and associated workflows
- Comprehensive drag/drop, cut/copy/paste, selection, and expand/collapse features promote rapid workflow construction and ease of maintenance
- Run-time binding allows workflows to be designed independently of specific IT elements and re-used (for example, a workflow to provision a virtual server can be developed independently and associated later with a specific virtualization technology such as VMware or IBM LPARs)
Support for Powerful Workflows:
- Graphical representation of even the most complex IT workflows, with support for steps, loops, concurrency, workflow joins and splits and more
- A Workflow "Situation Analyzer" to easily manage multiple-event correlation from different sources
- "Expert Mode" features for experienced Java programmers
Quick and Easy Integrations:
- Easily integrate existing system scripts (Visual Basic, Java, C-shell, etc.) directly into a workflow without recoding
- Synchronous integration with external IT operations and service desk applications such as Remedy;
How EMS Studio Works
The EMS Studio is a drag-and-drop graphical design tool that integrates Elements (IT infrastructure components) and Procedures (workflows that describe how to make changes to Elements) into Policies. Policies are similar to typical IT operational procedures, with an important difference: each Policy also includes a measurable parameter called a Service Level Objective (SLO). For example, if the Policy describes how to add a new instance of a customer service application, the SLO might be that during the operation user response time must remain below two seconds. By adding SLOs to workflows, administrators are always aware of business demands and codify them right into their operations. Policies can represent any complex workload management decision such as application priorities, resource monitoring, and scheduled rebalancing.
EMS Design Studio.
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The EMS 3.0 Design Studio makes IT process workflows easy to create, modify, organize, and deploy. Users simply select from a palette of automation components, drag them onto the workspace, and connect them together using intuitive and context-sensitive wizards and dialog boxes. These user-friendly features lead to lower training costs and enable more members of the operations team to participate in workflow development.