How Do I Interact With Platespin Orchestrate - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - GETTING STARTED REFERENCE 06-17-2009 Getting Started

The PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client and Other Client Tools
The PlateSpin Orchestrate Clients let a computing resource administrator troubleshoot, initiate,
change, or shut down server functions for PlateSpin Orchestrate and its computing resources. The
clients also monitor all managed computing resource job activity and provide facilities to manage
application jobs. When you install the Clients on a computing resource, you are installing the
following tools:
zos command line interface
zosadmin command line interface
PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client
Java* SDK (toolkit)
NOTE: The PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client is installed separately.
The PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client is a graphical user interface running on Java. It
provides a way for the PlateSpin Orchestrate administrator to troubleshoot and to initiate, change, or
shut down the functioning of the Orchestrate Server and its resources. It also functions as a monitor
of all PlateSpin Orchestrate job activity, and it provides an interface for managing PlateSpin
Orchestrate jobs. For more information about the Orchestrate Development Client, see the
Orchestrate 2.0 Development Client
For more information about the client tools, see
Orchestrate?," on page
Orchestrate Client
The PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client
PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client is a user interface for managing the life cycle of the virtual
machines (VMs) in your enterprise, including creating, starting, stopping, migrating, and deleting
VMs. For information about installing the Orchestrate VM Client, see
VM Client" in the
The PlateSpin Orchestrate Server Portal
The PlateSpin Orchestrate Server Portal is a web-based user interface for managing jobs. It provides
end users with the ability to start and monitor jobs on managed computing resources. For more
information about the Server Portal, see
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Server Portal
2.3 How Do I Interact with PlateSpin
Orchestrate?
Administrators and users perform their activities by using their own graphical tool or command line
interface tools. In general, the same functions are available in either the graphical or the command
line tools. The toolset is summarized in the chart below.
18 PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Getting Started Reference
Reference.
18. For more information about the toolkit, see
SDK" in the PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Developer Guide and
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 Installation and Configuration
"Using the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server
Reference.
Section 2.3, "How Do I Interact with PlateSpin
"Using the PlateSpin
"Installing the Orchestrate
PlateSpin
Reference.
Guide.
Portal" in the