The IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager - Essentials training course provides an introduction to the fundamental features of Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM). The topics covered are for anyone wanting to gain general knowledge of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, including data center administrators who deploy and configure hardware and software assets in the data center and application owners who deploy and manage specific applications within the data center.
The IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager - Automation Package Development training course provides a foundation for understanding and using IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager. It includes hands-on labs to assist in the learning of concepts of Automation Packages and workflows.
By attending IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager - Essentials workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Describe the architecture, interfaces, and basic function of TPM
- Discover hardware, software, and configuration information
- Enforce compliance of computers to a specified desired state
- Import, deploy, and remove software
- Capture and restore operating system images
- Enforce compliance of operating systems to a specified patch level
- Create user accounts and apply access controls
- Manage the provisioning environment
By attending IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager - Automation Package Development workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Describe automation package components and structure
- Develop provisioning workflows for TPM
- Design and build an automation package to meet a provisioning requirement
- Knowledge of basic server and workstation provisioning
- Windows, UNIX, Linux system administration skills
- Windows and UNIX command-line skills are a plus