This tool provides an easy-to-use console for remote deployment and management of operating systems. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment can help significantly reduce the number of images required across your environment and the effort required to manage those images.

This set of software development tools from IBM embraces the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard, helping to ease IT management burdens by defining an architecture for connecting computing resources with management applications through standard-based interfaces.

Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms V2.2 is designed to provide high availability for critical business applications and middleware through policy-based self-healing that is easily tailored to your individual application environment. It includes plug-and-play automation policy modules for many IBM and non-IBM middleware and applications, such as DB2, WebSphere, Apache, and mySAP Business Suite. Visit developerWorks for more information and for valuable technical resources to help you install and use this product.

Through a workflow engine, Tivoli Identity Manager Express enables you to automate the user provisioning process, including approvals and account creation, as well as the user deprovisioning process to mitigate the risk of invalid accounts and privileges.

Download a free trial copy and put the sophistication of large enterprise management into the hands of your small and mid-market business. It delivers management and monitoring capabilities, while helping reduce the cost and complexity associated with managing heterogeneous environments.

Download a free trial copy to increase the performance and availability of business-critical apps. This application management tool helps you quickly pinpoint the source of bottlenecks in application code, server resources, or external system dependencies.

Download a free trial copy of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time Tracking to follow the path of a user transaction end-to-end across your business infrastructure. You can drill down into each step that the transaction takes as it travels across multiple systems, and measure how each transaction component contributes to the overall response time.

This article provides an example of how to develop a portlet application on compliance reporting for IBM Tivoli? Security Compliance Manager (SCM). As recent events indicate, security is a growing concern of enterprises. Enterprises need to address security compliance with an increasing number of government and corporate security policies, standards and regulations.

This article and the supporting application provide a demonstration on how to use the WS-Trust to interface with the Tivoli? Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) Security Token Service (STS) to : Acquire a signed Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) credential; Use this credential to authenticate with TAM WebSEAL or Web plug-in via External Authentication Interface (EAI) and validate the signed TAM credential.

The key features in the IBM Tivoli? Identity Manager provisioning platform, password management, identity management, and account management, are designed to be easily extendable with well-defined external interfaces that can be used by clients to invoke their functionality. Clients that want lto access IBM Tivoli Identity Manager using a different entry point, such as a customized, specific user interface or a different application that integrates its capability, can use the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager application programming interface (API).

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IBM security and privacy architects Paul Ashley and Sridhar Muppidi discuss strategies for integrating IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business and Web portals. They outline the functions, and describes some facets of integrating Access Manager with WebSphere Portal Server. They also talk about WebSEAL, Access Manager's reverse Web proxy.