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System Images

A system image specifies the operations environment to be managed by a region. Before you can define the resources to be managed, you must define a system image.

You define system images from the System Image List panel. To access the list, enter /RADMIN.I from any panel.

When you have a system image, you can define resources to and associate EventView rules with it.

Note: If you are running CA SOLVE:Operations Automation for CICS and CA SOLVE:Operations Automation in the same region, you can define a system image by using the AutoAssist Express Setup Facility. The facility creates a system image and adds resources on the system to the image. These resources include CICS started tasks and jobs.

You can define many system images, but you can make only one of them active in a region. Furthermore, an image can be active only on its home system. The region manages the operations environment specified by this active image. To make an image active, you load it in the region. To enable an image to be loaded every time the region starts up, identify the image in the AUTOIDS parameter group. (To access the list of parameter groups, enter /PARMS from any panel.)

Note: For detailed information about how to work with system images, see the Reference Guide and the online help.