Checklist for IBM Endpoint Manager integration
This checklist is a high-level road map of tasks you need to complete to integrate IBM® Control Desk with IBM Endpoint Manager to provide deployable software offerings.
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Step | Action | Description |
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1 | Install and configure IBM Endpoint Manager. | For information about installing, see the installation documentation
for IBM Endpoint Manager for Lifecycle Management in IBM Knowledge Center. Ensure that the Client Configuration dashboard and the Manage Distribution Packages dashboard are set up. |
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2 | Install and configure IBM Control Desk. | For information about installing IBM Control
Desk,
see Installing Control Desk. Cloud customers must work with the hosting team to set up IBM Control Desk. |
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3 | Install and configure Integration Composer. | On-premises customers: Integration Composer can
be installed when you install IBM Control
Desk. Cloud customers must work with the hosting team to install Integration Composer. |
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4 | Using Integration Composer, import data from IBM Endpoint Manager into IBM Control Desk. | For detailed information, see Importing deployed asset data into IBM Control Desk with Integration Composer for IBM Endpoint Manager integrations. |
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5 Optional |
Populate the Software Catalog application in Control Desk by importing the software catalog data that is provided by the Software Knowledge Base Toolkit | To populate the Software Catalog, perform the following tasks:
For detailed information about importing software catalogs, see Importing the software catalog directly from IBM. |
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6 | Set up the Jython library. | For detailed information about setting up the Jython library, see Setting up the Jython library. |
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7 | Promote the deployed asset data that you imported to authorized assets. | Because software is assigned to authorized assets, you must
promote the deployed asset data that you imported into IBM Control
Desk to
authorized assets before you can provision the software. For detailed information about promoting deployed assets to authorized assets, see Promoting computers to assets. |
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8 | Configure IBM Control Desk for the integration with IBM Endpoint Manager. | In the Endpoints application in Control Desk,
configure connectivity to the IBM Endpoint Manager server. For detailed information, see Connecting IBM Control Desk to IBM Endpoint Manager. |
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9 | In Control Desk, create software offerings for the software that you want to deploy. | Create and publish offerings for the software that you want to deploy. For detailed information, see Creating and publishing software offerings. |
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10 | Verify that software offerings can be deployed as expected. | After you completed the preceding steps, you can request the
software, and it will be installed on the computer that you specified. To test whether the integration works properly, go to the Self Service Center and select a software offering that you published. Then check that the offering was deployed on the computer as expected. |
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11 | Deploy licensed software to your assets. | IBM Control
Desk includes
the following service offerings that you can use to deploy licensed
software to your assets:
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