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Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) is a product in IBM´s Tivoli Software brand. Its purpose is to automate the provisioning of virtual servers and software. TPM is a "manager of managers", in that it does not manage any hardware itself, but issues commands to the hypervisors that do actually manage the hardware. TPM can orchestrate the various tasks, and provide a common interface for different platforms, notably Intel-based managed by VMware to host MS-Windows and Linux virtual servers; and IBM's own AIX servers running on pSeries. == History == TPM originated with Think Dynamics which IBM acquired in 2003.〔(IBM grabs Think Dynamics )〕 Their "Think Control" product was good in provisioning and managing (virtual) servers in data centers. IBM added their "OPAL" Integrated Service Management Library, and marketed their new product as "Tivoli Information Orchestrator" - hence the appearance of the letters "tio" in many product files of TPM. While TIO appears to not have been a huge success, IBM spun off the deployment engine as a product of itself. * v4: combined with the aging "ITCM" desktop management suite, was marketed as "TPM for Software" * v5: general provisioning resources * there appears not to have been a v6 * v7.1: integrated with the new Tivoli Process Automation Engine (Maximo) GUI. TPM was also incorporated into Tivoli Service Automation Manager. * v7.2: has many improvements; most notably, the workflows are no longer extracted from the DCM database and executed line by line, but are converted to Java and run from bytecode, which is much faster. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tivoli Provisioning Manager」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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