Tivoli Software Installation Service: Planning, Installing, and Using Version 3.7

Tivoli Software Installation Service, first introduced for the Tivoli Management Framework 3.1 and enhanced with Tivoli Management Framework 3.7, is a Java-based tool to help you install Tivoli products and patches in your Tivoli Managed Environment. Using the graphical interface or command line execution, you can plan, manage, and execute the installation of Tivoli products on one or many computers.

This IBM redbook contains detailed information about planning, installing, and using Tivoli Software Installation Service. Examples throughout the book show you how to use the features and capabilities of Tivoli Software Installation Service in your environment.

This book is a must for customers, consultants, business partners, and Tivoli and IBM professionals who want to deploy and use Tivoli Software Installation Service in their organizations. It also covers the new architecture of Tivoli Software Installation Service implemented in version 3.7, including how to setup Tivoli Software Installation Service clients remotely from one or more depot servers. You can use this client/server capability to connect your clients and depots remotely from each other, even over slower speed wide area networks.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Concepts and new features
Chapter 3. Planning for Tivoli Software Installation Service
Chapter 4. Setting up Tivoli Software Installation Service
Chapter 5. Tivoli Software Installation Service tasks
Chapter 6. Response files
Chapter 7. Tivoli Software Installation Service logs
Chapter 8. Tracking inventory using SIS
Chapter 9. Hints and tips

Publish Date
22 December 2000

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Author(s)
Mike Foster
Joerg Ilgen
Nicholas Kirkwood

ISBN
0738421154

IBM Form Number
SG24-6028-00

Number of pages
240