IBM Retail Store Server Starter Edition is a middleware bundle specifically designed to address the needs of the retail store environment. The Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning Add On for IBM Retail Store Server provides additional capabilities to the base IBM Retail Store Server, it enables monitoring and provisioning of the retail store servers from a remote location. It simplifies the maintenance of the store servers. The Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning Add On for IBM Retail Store Server is an add on to the IBM Retail Store Server Editions, The monitoring capabilities provide superior contextual navigation and knowledge across distributed application resources. It can help you quickly identify and fix problems before customers are impacted, and help users proactively manage performance requirements to reduce unnecessary labor and capital expenditures. Using the same infrastructure and UI, you can extend application performance and avail-ability management coverage to application transactions and Web services by adding capabilities in the IBM Tivoli Performance Management suite of products. When it comes to provisioning, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager which is in included in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning Add On can help automate tasks to address application or business service operational management challenges. These products can help optimize performance and availability of business-critical applications and supporting IT infrastructure. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager can help automate the procedures to provision physical or virtual servers. This includes activities such as installing the operating system with required drivers and patches, adjusting network and storage settings, deploying middleware and applications, and applying patches. IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager also has the capability to routinely run inventory scans and compliance checks to identify changes in desired resource configurations. The Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning Add On for IBM Retail Store Server can only be purchased with the IBM Retail Store Server Editions. It is limited to deployments in store environments under the same limitations as the IBM Retail Store Server edition purchased.