2 Chapter 2. Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker architecture While the concepts of Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker are easily understandable, from the architectonical perspective Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker can be a complex application. In this chapter we provide detailed descriptions of Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker components and interactions among them. We also describe the user interfaces used for managing the workload across the IT environment. We focus especially on the following topics: "Topological view" on page 27 "Major server components" on page 28 "Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker agent" on page 34 "Common Agent Services" on page 38 "Job and resource definitions" on page 43 "Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker User interfaces" on page 44 "Security features" on page 51 "Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker deployment scenarios" on page 66 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2007. All rights reserved. 25