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4372ch01.fm Draft Document for Review November 15, 2007 3:27 pm
10 Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment
1.7 Typical scenarios in a system life cycle
Much has been written about the system life cycle. Figure 1-4 on page 10 shows
some of the elements that are part of the system life cycle. Some of these
elements can be supported using the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS
Deployment product while others will require additional software, tools and
processes.
Figure 1-4 POS System Lifecycle
The remaining chapters of this paper will, through selected scenarios, show how
the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment product can be used to
accomodate the following system life cycle tasks that are carried out at regular
intervals in any retail environment;
First time installations using unattended installation
Preparing a master image for mass distribution
Deploying to multiple systems from a master image
Re-deploying to a specific system to resolve a problem
Backing up and restoring an entire system to resolve a problem