1. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager 7.1 UI Customization
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2. Several different angles for UI and access customization…
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Several different angles for UI and access customization…
Start Centers
Can be configured at “user” or default/template instance level
Content such as KPIs and Saved Queries can be created and shared for others
Application Designer—provides powerful application cloning and/or customization. Some example uses…
Terminology/label changes on apps
App “cleanup” to remove irrelevant or change layout of items
Conditional UI control behavior—hide/show buttons, change color, etc.
Security Groups
Group/role-based access to apps, functions and data
Migration Manager tooling provides migration from dev/testbed to production deployment
 Note that most custom configuration such as this is performed by “maxadmin” or a member of the MAXADMIN security group (not TPADMIN).
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3. Start Centers—Configure your favorite app links…
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Start Centers—Configure your favorite app links…
Click the “Edit Portlet” (Pencil) icon…
Select some applications and hit OK.
Delete some applications from the list. And then click Finished…
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4. Start Centers—Configure your favorite app links…
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Start Centers—Configure your favorite app links…
You’ve customized your favorite application links…
Note that this was configured for your user’s Start Center “instance”…
Click “Update Start Center” to get the default template back
If you’re the system administrator, you’ll probably be able to customize the global instance template for that Start Center and then save the changes for others to pick these up…
Note that various other customization links and capabilities are available
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5. Key Performance Indicators…
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Key Performance Indicators…
KPIs can be used to give a brief summary graph or list directly on the Start Centers. For example, here are a couple of these showing compliance status of computers and groups…
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6. Key Performance Indicators…
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Key Performance Indicators…
If your user has authority, you can view, edit and/or create additional KPIs from the Administration | Reporting | KPI Manager application. For example, here’s the definition of one of the KPIs from the previous page…
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7. Application Designer…
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Application Designer…
Provides many application customization capabilities…
Label modification
Layout changes
Irrelevant section removal
Conditional Control configuration based on state, security group access, etc.
Application extension—e.g. to show additional related objects on the same panel
Application “cloning” to create custom or simplified versions of applications
Etc…
Provides WYSIWYG or XML-based editing
See the Application Developer guide for additional information:
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8. Application Designer…
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Application Designer…
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9. Security Groups and customization of access…
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Security Groups and customization of access…
The Tivoli process automation engine provides very powerful and easy to access
capabilities to customize function and data access. Some notes on these capabilities…
Security Groups are mapped to functional roles
Users are added to Security Groups. Users have “additive” access to all capabilities for all Security Groups they belong to. (More on Security in a later session.)
Granular access to “Application Auth”/”Signature Options” provides control and access for specific functions in particular applications.
Can define “conditions” on the access
Data and group restrictions can also be defined (will be covered in session on Security)
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10. Security Groups and Application Access Customization…
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Security Groups and Application Access Customization…
The Applications tab provides filtered drill-down access to configuring access. Demo basic
end-to-end of disabling access to a particular button based on role…
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Things to try out…
Customize a Start Center
Customize an application—good one to try is TPSERVER.
Clone (duplicate) an Application and then customize it. (Initial cloning can take a few minutes…)
Browse through the Security Groups application and configuration (probably best not to change things, more advanced.  )
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