Integration modules for OMP integration
This product provides integration modules (IMs) that enable you to integrate your release management processes with an operational management product (OMP): Tivoli® Provisioning Manager version 7.2.x. Using the IM integration capabilities, you can perform launch-in-context, software distribution, and Definitive Media Library (DML)-related operations.
IM launch-in-context support
If you are using Tivoli Provisioning Manager version 7.2.x with the IM that is provided with this product, you can launch directly from the GUI to Tivoli Provisioning Manager and check the status of a deployment. This can occur during software distribution or LDO operations.
IM software distribution support
The IMs help streamline operations in which you use a release to distribute software packages. You define a software distribution task as part of the release work plan. A user who creates or performs the task can define the source software image CI to be deployed. The software distribution task also includes information about target CIs and the OMP to be used. Then, a single click of a button carries out the distribution.
DML integration
The product provides comprehensive features that enable you to manage Definitive Media Library (DML) repositories in which to store and protect the definitive, authorized versions of all of the software package CIs that are registered to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). A DML repository might consist of one or more software libraries or file-storage areas. You can add, remove, and import software image CIs to a repository. If a software image CI is imported from an OMP, you can use the CI as a source for a deployment using a Software Distribution task.
The Definitive Media Library application is used to manage DML repositories.