One of the important aspects of business service management is the ability to manage various stages of the application life cycle. Business service management is a continuous process that starts with the provisioning of the application followed by monitoring various service levels such as availability and performance. This also includes the ability to support maintenance operations such as patching, upgrades, and related configuration management. OEM Grid Control provides extensive features to manage the various stages of the application life cycle. This section covers some of the basic features of the application life cycle management.
This is the first step in the management of the application life cycle. This involves creating and setting up the necessary environment to deploy the application. In OEM Grid Control, provisioning is achieved using various Deployment procedures. These procedures are specific for each target type. Some of the deployment procedures...