3 Chapter 3. Installing Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 This chapter describes the Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1 installation process. We both cover UNIX® and Windows operating systems to show the differences of these two platforms. The chapter contains the following sections: "Installation methods" on page 30 "Topology Installer Launcher" on page 31 "Supported installation topologies and operating system versions" on page 31 "Account required by the installation" on page 39 "Preinstallation checklist" on page 39 "Installing behind a firewall" on page 42 "Overview of the installation flow" on page 43 "Installation log files" on page 46 "Post installation steps" on page 47 "Automation Package Developer Environment (APDE) installation" on page 50 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2007. All rights reserved. 29