Web Replay

Tivoli Provisioning Manager - Web Replay

A constant challenge in today’s complex IT environment is to minimize the time spent on highly repetitive, mundane, and error-prone manual tasks, in an effort to free up resources for more high value business projects.

You want to simplify the complexity of software distribution to automate time-consuming tasks and allow your skilled people to focus on activities that can grow the business, not just maintain it.

Web Replay - a Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software feature - helps accomplish this goal.

Web Replay works by enabling experts to capture their knowledge and make it available to others. With Web Replay a user can “record” the mouse clicks and actions going through any complex task. Afterwards, any user with the appropriate access can run the task. Operations that may require a whole series of clicks can be condensed down to a single push of a button.

System administrators can use the Tivoli Web Replay feature to record and play back complex software distribution tasks as scenarios and play them back. Consequently, experts on a subject can develop and record the actions needed to execute very complex tasks just once. These “recordings” can then be used as needed by others who are not subject matter experts. This ensures that tasks are executed correctly and completely, every time.

Captured scenarios can also be used to guide users through a complex task step-by-step. Context-sensitive help provides guidance along the way that explains what is going on, and what input is expected by the user.

Over 100 best practice scenarios for many of the most common software distribution tasks are available for download from OPAL, and can be used “as is” or customized for specific environments.