Deployment Guide Series: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1

Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems (OS) and applications to computers using the PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Environment) industry standard for bare-metal installation. A bare-metal installation eliminates the need for an operating system to be present on a local disk drive. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a turn-key solution to the most common provisioning issues and provides an easy to use, turn-key solution for education, small-to-medium businesses (SMB) or larger accounts.

In this easy-to-follow IBM® Redbooks® publication we cover different image management scenarios with Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, such as Windows® XP, Windows 2003, Vista, and Linux® deployments. We also discuss how to design and implement a highly-effective image management solution for small, medium, and enterprise accounts, taking into consideration network bandwidth limitations and large OS image sizes.

We also provide some best practices on how to integrate Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment with other change management products, CD/DVD-based deployment, image redeployment, and troubleshooting.
Finally, we cover Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment sales engagement planning, including a sample statement of work. The primary audience for this section is Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Business Partners and pre-sales Systems Engineers.

This book is a major reference for IT Specialists and IT Architects working in the image management area.

Part 1. Planning and architecture
Chapter 1. Introduction to image management
Chapter 2. Architecture and deployment scenarios
Part 2. Deployment
Chapter 3. Installing the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment environment
Chapter 4. Installing pre-Vista systems
Chapter 5. Installing Vista systems
Chapter 6. Installing Linux systems
Chapter 7. Common deployment features
Chapter 8. Integration and collaboration with other Change Management products
Chapter 9. CD/DVD based deployment
Chapter 10. Redeployment and self-healing feature
Chapter 11. Troubleshooting, best practices, and common questions
Part 3. Planning for an engagement
Appendix A. Planning for a client engagement
Appendix B. Sample Statement of Work for Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment

• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• Architecting a Highly Efficient Image Management System with Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, REDP-4294-00
• TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, GG24-3376-07

Publish Date
16 May 2007

Last Update
24 September 2007

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Author(s)

Vasfi Gucer is an IBM Certified Consultant IT Specialist working at the ITSO Austin Center. He worked with IBM Turkey for 10 years and has been with the ITSO since January 1999. He has more than 12 years of experience in systems management, networking hardware, and distributed platform software. He worked on various Tivoli customer projects as a Systems Architect in Turkey and in the United States. Vasfi is also a Certified Tivoli Consultant.

• Vasfi Gucer

Damir Bacalja is an Advisory IT Specialist from IBM Croatia. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and is also ITIL certified. He has worked with Tivoli products in Framework, Tivoli Configuration Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Remote Control, and Tivoli Storage Manager, for almost eight years. He joined IBM as part of IBM Global Services and took part in many Tivoli implementations. Since 2002 he is part of the IBM Software group as a Tivoli Technical Sales Specialist for the SEA region. He has strong skills in UNIX, Windows, and shell scripting.

• Damir Bacalja

Dominique Bertin holds a technology certificate in electric engineering from the University of Creteil, near Paris in France. He began as a Honeywell Bull representative on different mainframe customer sites for seven years, and then started working as a Software Engineer in the National Software Center in the Bull company. After 12 years at Bull, he joined a software services company that was acquired by Candle corporation five years later. After the IBM acquisition of Candle, he moved to a Tivoli presales position. He is currently assigned to the Tivoli Configuration Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software products within the Tivoli Business Automation segment.

• Dominique Bertin

Richard Hine Richard has a bachelors degree in medical science from the University of Manchester in the UK, and has worked for IBM since 1981. He worked with IBM Mainframes for 11 years doing services and support roles with MVS, IMS and VTAM, taking assignments to teach automation techniques and assembler programming. During this time, he also took a job supporting the IBM first Point of Sale deployment in Europe at Boots of Nottingham in the U.K. He moved to country technical support in 1991 to support IBM network management tools on distributed systems, where he taught at the international education center in La Hulpe and supported field services engagements for the NetView automationa family of productsÑboth distributed and mainframe. During this time Richard also did several international services engagements in the Middle East, and wrote an ANO based TCP/IP monitoring application that was used in IBM South Africa. Richard moved to Tivoli in 1996 with IBM acquisition. He worked in a presales role for the UK on all Framework products, latterly leading the UK Advanced Technology Team. Certified in 2002, Richard has been published in the Managed View and two other IBM Redbooks publications. Currently he works with the Tivoli Performance and Business automation products in a presales capacity for the UK Financial Services Sector.

• Richard Hine

Scott M Kay is an Advisory Technical Specialist working for the IBM Software group in Australia. His speciality is Tivoli Business Automation tools. He has 15 years of experience in the IT field. In that time Scott has held various roles from operational support, SOE development, to systems management. After joining IBM in 1999 Scott worked in roles all directly related to the Tivoli suite of products in Global Services, Tivoli Professional services, and finally in his current presales role in the Software Group.

• Scott M Kay

Francesco Latino is a Level 2 Customer Support Software Engineer in Tivoli Configuration Manager and Tivoli Provisioning Manager. He holds a Computer Science degree from the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari. His areas of expertise include Tivoli Inventory, Tivoli Software Distribution, Common Inventory Technology, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment products. He has skills in procedural and object-oriented programming, TCP/IP network protocol, J2EE platform, and electronic commerce.

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ISBN

0738486280

IBM Form Number
SG24-7397-00

Number of pages
512