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.
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.