IBM Tivoli Management Framework

Today's network computing enterprise requires an open, scalable, cross-platform approach that is also truly integrated. The IBM Tivoli Management Framework is the foundation for a suite of management applications that are making systems and network management easy.

The IBM Tivoli Management Framework makes it possible to:

• Shield administrators from platform-specific details of day-to-day operations. Common operations such as deploying applications, and routine network maintenance can be performed with a single action; administrators are no longer required to repeat the same operation for each platform on your enterprise.

• Deploy applications to literally thousands of machines with one operation, all the while ensuring the applications remain available.

• Integrate with third-party applications, because the IBM Tivoli Management Framework is an open solution. Business Partner Program provides many of these third-party solutions to your enterprise management challenges; challenges such as job scheduling, intrusion detection, and backup and restore, all of which snap-in to the IBM Tivoli Management Framework.

• Use less bandwidth for distribution by leveraging multicast technology
  Connect more securely between the management server and its clients through SSL

• Exploitation and payload encryption

• Manage across firewalls

By providing a truly open and comprehensive foundation for network computing management, the IBM Tivoli Management Framework simplifies todays most complex network computing challenges.