This topic provides an overview of the scenarios that are
enabled with the integration of IBM® Rational® Quality Manager with
the IBM Tivoli® Service Request Manager®, IBM Tivoli Application
Dependency Manager and IBM Tivoli Provisioning
Manager products.
Rational Quality Manager provides
three points of integration with Tivoli products:
- Request fulfillment. The lab management feature of Rational Quality Manager provides
basic lab resource request and request fulfillment capabilities. Some
lab resource requests cannot be fulfilled with Rational Quality Manager,
however. These requests can be created and managed in Tivoli Service Request Manager by
opening the request manager interface through Rational Quality Manager.
- Inventory Awareness. With Rational Quality Manager,
development organizations can consolidate accurate, up-to-date information
about lab resources. The organizations can automatically collect information
about resources in the lab, reducing the need for manual entry and
keeping machine configurations up to date. You can increase the depth
of attributes discovered by the product by integrating with Tivoli Application Dependency
Manager. Tivoli Application Dependency
Manager is
an robust, scalable solution that discovers resource details, including
specifics about software and hardware. Through the use of an adapter,
this integration brings resource details discovered in Tivoli Application Dependency
Manager into
the Rational Quality Manager database.
The resource information can be viewed in Rational Quality Manager.
Another adapter exports discovered resource information from Tivoli Provisioning Manager to
the Rational Quality Manager database.
- Automation. Rational Quality Manager can
call Tivoli Provisioning Manager to
run automation scripts that fulfill resource requests that were loaded
from Tivoli Provisioning Manager.
You can deploy Rational Quality Manager with
any combination of the three Tivoli products. Although you do not
have to install all three Tivoli products with Rational Quality Manager,
by integrating the three products you can assemble the most comprehensive
test lab management solution.