Endpoint Management with IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manger (TEM) Unified Management Platform
Increasing endpoint complexity challenges the best IT departments.

TEM Unified Management Platform provides real-time visibility and control. It uses a single infrastructure, a single agent, and a unified console for systems lifecycle management, endpoint protection, and security configuration and vulnerability management. The TEM platform continuously discovers, assesses, remediates, and enforces the health and security of servers, desktops, and roaming laptops. We do it in real time via a single, policy-driven agent and single console.

TEM distributes computing power to devices themselves. The TEM Agent gives you levels of visibility and control not possible in legacy solutions. This innovation translates into significant advantages in speed, flexibility, and scalability. It also reduces infrastructure and training costs associated with traditional systems and security management.

How TEM Works

The power of the TEM platform derives from key features that reduce cost, maximize ROI, and improve efficiency. The platform includes the following components:

The TEM Agent is the brain of the TEM platform. It continuously assesses endpoints. It enforces policy regardless of connectivity. By powering a resilient distributed intelligence infrastructure, this single, multi-purpose agent is a radical departure from legacy client-server architectures.

The TEM Server stores real-time views of configurations and status of all TEM Agents. As the single point of contact to the Internet, it monitors and gathers policy content streams and distributes them to TEM Agents.

The TEM Console is the command center where you can view information on the state of all network computers and define policies in real time.

TEM Policies, -- also known as Fixlet Messages -- communicate policy information between TEM Agents and TEM Server environments. TEM Policy Messages can contain logical criteria to trigger specific actions—for example, “if vulnerability X exists on this client, update software module Y with the appropriate package.” You can use TEM provided policies or customize your own.

TEM Relays provide distributed points of communication, aggregation and staging for TEM Policy Messages and patch/remediation content. They help reduce network bandwidth requirements and provide added fault-tolerance to TEM management systems. You can install TEM Relays on existing hardware, including desktops and multi-purpose systems such as file or print servers. No dedicated hardware is required, and deployment takes minutes rather than months without disruptive network configuration changes.