Rational Quality Manager and Tivoli

The lab management tool in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager provides the test and development organization with a view into lab resources. With the tool, testers and developers can accurately define the types of resources they need, reserve those resources, and configure lab resources. With the robust machine configuration capability that the product provides, you can accurately define the required resource characteristics for a task. For example, a tester might need a computer that runs IBM AIX 5.3 with a Power 5 CPU and a minimum of 1 GB of RAM. With the lab management configurations feature, you can specify required configurations such as these for resources to perform particular test or development tasks. Rational Quality Manager lab management can be deployed with IBM Tivoli products to provide additional value through specific integrations of the products.

The Tivoli products you can integrate with Rational Quality Manager are IBM Tivoli® Service Request Manager®, IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Manager, and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager. These integrations provide a comprehensive test lab management solution that gives visibility to additional resources that are discovered through Tivoli Application Dependency Manager. You can manage lab requests through Tivoli Service Request Manager. You can accomplish additional resource discovery and automated provisioning of resources through Tivoli Provisioning Manager. These features increase the utilization of lab resources. The topics in this section include scenarios for each integration and provide instructions for configuring your environment to take advantage of these integrations.

Deployment

Each product that is discussed in the Tivoli integrations section is installed according to typical product installation methods. To take advantage of the integrations with the Tivoli products, you must follow the configuration steps described in these topics. You do not need to have all products enabled with Rational Quality Manager to obtain benefits from the integration scenarios. Depending on the size of the deployment and how the products are used, the products can share middleware. For example, in a very small test lab environment where all products are deployed only to support the test lab, you could use the same database server for all the products. In larger deployments, you might have a separate database server for each product. See the planning and installation guides for the individual products for information about the various components of each product and how they can be deployed.

Product versions and compatibility

The following product versions are supported for integration.
  • Rational Quality ManagerVersion 1.0 or later, with an IBM Rational Test Lab Manager Client Access License enabled
  • Tivoli Service Request Manager Version 7.1.0
  • Tivoli Application Dependency Manager Version 7.1.0
  • Tivoli Provisioning Manager Versions 5.1.1 and 7.1.1
For supported middleware and environment specifications, see the appropriate product documentation for Rational Quality Manager, Tivoli Service Request Manager, Tivoli Application Dependency Manager and Tivoli Provisioning Manager. It is not required that the constituent components run on the same middleware.

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