The Tivoli Module Designer is a tool for creating management-ready applications. It automates the creation of Application Description Files (ADFs), which contain the relevant management information for an application, including application components, dependencies, installation requirements, directory path names, monitors, tasks and component relationships. The ADFs conform to the Applications Management Specification (AMS), a formal specification for communicating information about an application between development and operations. Developed in collaboration with customers and development tool partners, AMS describes both the content and the format of the information which must be transferred. The format is based on the industry-standard MIF format as defined by the Desktop Management Task Force. With AMS, developers have a standard way to communicated everything they know, and an administrator needs to know, about an application.
Both Tivoli Module Designer and the AMS can be downloaded for free from Tivoli's web site .