IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM) is a powerful, cross-platform systems management suite for remotely managing and monitoring workstations, and it is the tool upon which the Systems Management @ Penn State (SysMan) service is based. In addition to utilizing power savings, inventory, and reporting features, systems administrators can employ TEM’s software distribution tools to quickly and silently install applications and settings to both on- and off-site workstations. This session will present the basics of TEM and help you get started quickly packaging and deploying software, updates, and settings to Mac computers. We will also touch on relevance language and action script, examine helpful analyses and reports, and look at best practices and recommendations for building an effective software deployment process with TEM.
John is a Systems Design Specialist with Classroom and Lab Computing (CLC) in Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), a unit of Information Technology Services (ITS). He has been with Penn State since 2005 as a senior systems administrator at Penn State Harrisburg, and since 2011 as part of the SysMan and CLM teams.