Microsoft Vista - Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment

IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Operating System Deployment

Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provides an easy-to-use console for remote deployment and management of operating systems. It includes flexible alternatives for creating and managing operating system cloned or scripted image installs. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment can help significantly reduce the number of images required across your environment and the effort required to manage those images.

IBM Provisioning Manager v 5.1

IBM® Tivoli® Provisioning Manager, built on a Service Oriented Architecture, enhances usability for executing changes while keeping server and desktop software compliant. Tivoli Provisioning Manager helps organizations with provisioning, configuration and maintenance of servers and virtual servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, storage and network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers. With this release of the Tivoli Provisioning Manager, users can benefit from significant ease of use enhancements including a new graphical user interface, better reporting and streamlined use scenarios that provide more out of the box value. Key functional areas of enhancement include:

• Improved discovery and reporting of datacenter resources
• Operating system imaging and bare metal provisioning
• Software distribution and patch management over a scalable secure infrastructure
• Automated deployment of servers through software templates
• Simplification and automation of datacenter tasks
• Compliance reporting and remediation.
• Integration with IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database and IBM Tivoli Release Process Manager