Software Automation: Tivoli Provisioning Manager

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Roger Stow, product manager for IBM, talks about the importance of automating businesses processes. Four of the main challenges for customers today include excessive deployment errors when implementing changes and releases, excessive time in implementing new server environments, difficulty in managing virtualized environments, and simple asset discovery. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager automates these processes enabling enable customers to deploy new servers faster, more accurately.

My name is Roger Stow. Im a product manager for Tivoli Provisioning Manager.

Four of the major pain points we see in our customers today include excessive deployment errors when implementing changes and releases, excessive time in implementing new server environments for either test or production environments, difficulty in managing virtualized environments, and simple asset discovery. Understanding what assets are in the infrastructure.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager automates these processes to enable customers to deploy new servers faster, more accurately.

TMP also helps our customers with compliance issues by defining standard configurations in the data center model.

When TPM 7.1 was released late last year, it became integrated with Tivolis process automation engine, which basically means it uses the same set of common data and services as other products in the ISM portfolio. For example, changing configuration management database and Tivoli Service Request Manager. What this does is provide a common user interface, common data, common workflow engines, and common security to really tightly tie these applications together to enable full end-to-end IT service management.

The next version of TPM, version 7.1.1, will be available in August. It will provide a migration tool so that existing users of TPM version 5.1 can migrate to the new version. In addition, it will provide platform support so that TPM can run in additional operating system environments.

We have one customer who spoke at our user conference earlier this year who documented a situation where provisioning a test server typically took seven days. With TPM they reduced the process to 35 minutes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• software automation
• provisioning
• process deployment
• asset discovery
• configuration management
• service management
• IBM
• TPM 7.1.1
• Roger Stow