Tivoli Policy Driven Software Distribution Workshop

Labs for the TPDSD Workshop
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Labs for Unit 2 - Planning for and Installing TPDSD

LAB 2.1 Touring your Lab Environment

LAB 2.2 Install Middleware components on teamXtpdsd & teamXdistsrv

LAB 2.3 Install Tivoli Base Services on teamXtpdsd

LAB 2.4 Install TPDSD Distribution Server Component on teamXdistsrv

LAB 2.5 Install TPDSD Server Component on teamXtpdsd

LAB 2.6 Checking the Installation, Discovering all Classroom Computers Creating Computer Groups

LAB 2.7 Creating Administrators in LDAP, Synchronizing users in TPDSD database

LAB 2.8 Installing TPDSD Agents on all teamX Computers

LAB 2.9 Install the SoftwarePackage Editor on teamXagent

Labs for Unit 3 - Scanning, Storing, and Retrieving Data in the Configuration Repository

LAB 3.1 Scanning for Hardware Information

LAB 3.2 Reviewing Software Signatures

LAB 3.3 Scanning for Software Information, Deleting a Scan in Progress

LAB 3.4 Running pre-built Reports

LAB 3.5 Creating Custom Reports (Optional)

LAB 3.6 How to extend the Configuration Repository for custom information (Optional)

LAB 3.7 Configuring Endpoint Initiated Scans (Optional)

LAB 3.8 Scanning DMI (Optional and Advanced)

Labs for Unit 4 - Creating and Customizing SoftwarePackages

LAB 4.1 Creating two templates: one for basic SoftwarePackages, one for MSI embedded SoftwarePackages

LAB 4.2 Building a SoftwarePackage named AddManuals.v7.1.b0.p0

Labs for Unit 5 - Testing SoftwarePackages

LAB 5.1 AddManuals.v7.1.b0.p0 Testing the SoftwarePackage AddManuals.v7.1.b0.p0

LAB 5.2 Creating and Testing Updated Versions of AddManuals

LAB 5.3 Packaging and Testing Hello.v5.0.b0.p0, Adding Icons, Entries in the Start Menu and Adding/Modifying Registry Entries

LAB 5.4 Packaging and Testing WinINSTALL_LE.v2.5120.b0.p0, (MSI Embedded SoftwarePackage)

LAB 5.5 Packaging and Testing RebootTarget.v1.0.b0.p0

LAB 5.6 Creating a SoftwarePackage using the AutoPack Facility, Testing AcrobatReader.v5.1.b0.p0.spb (Optional)

Labs for Unit 6 - Performing Change Management Operations

LAB 6.1 Manually Creating a Software Definition for AddManuals v7.1

LAB 6.2 Creating a Software Definition by Importing AddManuals.v7.1.b0.p0.spb

LAB 6.3 Deploying SoftwarePackage AddManuals v7.1 Using the Software Installation Wizard

LAB 6.4 Deploying SoftwarePackage AddManuals v7.1 Using a Software Installation Task

LAB 6.5 Deploying SoftwarePackage AddManuals v7.1 by Associating a Policy to a Computer Group

LAB 6.6 Verifying that the Software Deployment was successful

LAB 6.7 Suspending and Withdrawing a Bound Policy for AddManuals v7.1

LAB 6.8 Creating and Associating a Revised Policy to Deploy AddManuals v7.1 in Transactional Mode

LAB 6.9 Understanding TPDSD Change Management Control for Different Versions of AddManuals (Optional)

LAB 6.10 Installing Hello.v5.0.b0.p0 on teamXagent (Optional)

LAB 6.11 Installing an MSI Embedded SoftwarePackage WinINSTALL_LE.v2.5120.b0.p0 (Optional)

LAB 6.12 Handling Locked Files (Optional)

Labs for Unit 7 - Configuring TPDSD to Efficiently Manage Deployments and Scans

LAB 7.1 Configuring DCD, DMS and related, SDI Components

LAB 7.2 Pre-Loading SDI Repeater Depots

LAB 7.3 Managing Deployments in Progress: View, Suspend, Withdraw, and Delete Bound Policies

LAB 7.4 Managing the Inventory Collection process using the Scalable Collection Service (Optional)

Labs for Unit 8 - Using built-in Tivoli Remote Control

LAB 8.1 Installing TRC v5.1 Client on teamXagent & teamXtpdsd

LAB 8.2 Configuring TRC Controller on teamXtpdsd

LAB 8.3 Controlling teamXagent from teamXdistsrv

LAB 8.4 Starting a Chat Session between teamXdistsrv and teamXagent

LAB 8.5 Transferring Files and Clipboard Info from teamXdistsrv to teamXagent

LAB 8.6 Configuring TPDSD System Properties for TRC

LAB 8.7 Using ITRC to reboot teamXagent (Optional)

Labs for Unit 9 - Automating Activities and Tasks with TPDSD

LAB 9.1 Creating a Policy Sequence, Activating a Policy Sequence, Tracking a Policy Sequence

LAB 9.2 Exporting a Policy Sequence to an XML File

LAB 9.3 Importing a modified Policy Sequence

LAB 9.4 Pre-loading SDI Repeater Depots with a Policy Sequence

Labs for Unit 10 - Automated Patch Management

LAB 10.1 Configuring the TPDSD Server for Automated Patch Management

LAB 10.2 Downloading Patches from Microsoft Website

LAB 10.3 Installing Windows Update Agent on teamXagent

LAB 10.4 Security Compliance for OS Patches on teamXagent

Labs for Unit 11 - Implementing the Self-Service Catalog

LAB 11.1 Enabling the Self-Service Catalog for a Group of Agent Computers

LAB 11.2 Configuring TPDSD Agents to use the Self-service Catalog

LAB 11.3 Publishing Software Definitions

LAB 11.4 Using the Self-Service UI to perform Change Management Operations

Labs for Unit 12 - Tuning, High-Availability, and Disaster Recovery

LAB 12.1 Tuning the maximum size of WebContainers and maximum number of connections in WebSphere

LAB 12.2 Tuning HTTP Server (Optional)

LAB 12.3 Using a Simulator for Capacity Planning (Optional and Advanced)

Labs for Unit 13 - Performing Bare-metal Installations

LAB 13.1 Installing TPMfOSD on teamXdistsrv

LAB 13.2 Configuring TPDSD & TPMfOSD to communicate together

LAB 13.3 Creating a Golden Image from teamXagent

LAB 13.4 Creating a Software Module for a TPDSD Agent

LAB 13.5 Deploying an Image along with TPDSD Agent on Bare-metal computers (Optional)

Labs for Unit 14 - Troubleshooting TPDSD

LAB 14.1 Troubleshooting Faulty SoftwarePackages (Optional)

LAB 14.2 Setting-up TPDSD Traces for Software Distribution operations (optional)

LAB 14.3 Rescuing Orphaned TPDSD Agents (Optional)