Operational Management

K2 operations typically span two levels of focus:

1. Platform operations
2. Application management

Both of these items should provide the core technical foundation for the resources outlined in the support plan.

PLATFORM OPERATIONS

Platform operations relates to all the roles, responsibilities and procedures that correspond to ensuring the health and stability of a base K2 infrastructure. This typically constitutes all the features, functionality and configuration enabled during the K2 product installation, but not any items enabled to support specific solutions. This section outlines prescriptive guidance on how to perform platform centric tasks such as:

• Monitoring
  How K2 solutions work with system monitoring tools such as Microsoft SCOM.
• Service Object Testing
  Insight into testing of K2 SmartObjects and ServiceInstances.
• Base Environment Validation
  Guidance on procedures to test a K2 environment (not solution) to confirm baseline functionality and operations of that K2 platform.

APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

Application management focuses on supporting solutions that are deployed to production environments. As with any production solution, it is imperative that a sufficient level of planning is performed to ensure that proper knowledge exists around what will be necessary to support a deployed solution. Areas of focus include:

• Monitoring
  Discussion on how K2 solutions can fit within a business activity monitoring (BAM) landscape.
• Base health check
  Guidance on what policies and approaches should be considered in order to validate core functionality of a K2 solution.
• Artifact and configuration checklist
  Examples of solution artifacts that can be created to allow for a quick reference on important items to check when troubleshooting a deployed solution.