In today's dynamic marketplace, new on demand technologies are required. Ever expanding, distributed islands of processing power need to be tapped to improve resiliency and responsiveness to a demand curve that can spike with only so much warning as an unexpected news release. In today's economic times, you can not afford to maintain server capacity for just-in-case situations. IBM Tivoli Provisioning solutions help you deal with these challenges.

Pre-built automation packages provide control and configuration of major vendors' products, while customized workflows can implement your company's best practices and procedures. Additional automation workflows can be obtained from the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL), an on-line repository where customers, business partners and ISVs publish and share best practices for automation. These workflows can automate your unique data center processes including installing, configuring and deploying servers, operating systems, middleware, applications and network devices. Software patches and upgrades can be applied as required to improve security and availability.

This solution:

• Helps reduce costs, improve server utilization, and boost server-to-administrator ratios by automating all the steps necessary to provision, configure and deploy your complete solution into the production environment
  
  
• Protects your existing investments, lowers implementation costs and creates a fast return on investment by utilizing existing hardware, software and network devices without the need for rewiring or changing the network architecture
  
  
• Helps reduce security exposures by tracking and applying security patches to distributed network servers
  
  
• Easy to use tools for remote operating system imaging and bare metal provisioning
  
  

	IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Enables you to rapidly and efficiently deploy complex mission-critical applications to multiple locations from a central point.
	IBM Tivoli License Manager Enables businesses to ensure compliance and reduce cost through advanced inventory and reporting capabilities
	IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express for Inventory Helps your small or midsize organization efficiently and cost-effectively automate inventory and asset management
	IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express for Software Distribution Helps you identify non-compliant users and quickly deploy critical software updates to reduce end-user downtime
	IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Provides an easy-to-use console for remote deployment and management of operating systems
	IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software Automate the deployment of software to servers, desktops and laptops distributed across different environments and locations
	IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager provisions and configures servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, and network devices
	IBM Tivoli Remote Control Gives IT departments quick, secure and reliable control over the critical resources they manage
	IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator Automatically trigger the provisioning, configuration and deployment of a solution into production

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	A technical discussion of software license management A technical overview of Tivoli License Manager and a description of how this Web-based enterprise architecture meets today's wide-ranging business requirements for software license management and asset tracking. [.pdf] (white paper)
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	Implementing IBM Tivoli Remote Control Across Firewalls The primary objective of this IBM Redbook is to provide concepts, recommendations, and techniques when planning and implementing IBM Tivoli Remote Control 3.8 in an environment that involves firewalls. (Redbook)
	Implementing IBM Tivoli Remote Control in Small to Midsized Enviroments This Redpaper demonstrates the technical attractiveness, ease-of-deployment, fast time-to-market, and fundamental integration with Tivoli infrastructure of IBM Tivoli Remote Control. (Redpaper)
	PDA Management with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager This IBM Redbook describes in detail the steps required to install and configure the Tivoli Web Gateway and all the prerequisite products, to allow a successful implementation of a pervasive device management environment. (Redbook)
	Automated Distribution and Self-Healing with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager How to use load balancing and clustering to ensure high availability and scalability for the Access Manager Policy Server. (Redbook)
	End-to-End Scheduling with Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.1 This redbook considers how best to provide end-to-end scheduling using Tivoli Workload Scheduling 8.1, both distributed and mainframe components. (Redbook)

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