IBM Director 5.10 User Interface Enhancements and Simplification

1. IBM Director 5.10User Interface Enhancements and Simplification Richard Bryan

2. Agenda • Main Console Enhancements (Project Simplify) • CI162 - Accessibility Enhancements • Online Helps and Publications • Event Action Plan Wizard • Software Distribution Enhancements / Software Health • Management Server CLI

3. IBM Director 5.10Main Console Enhancements Richard Bryan

4. Director 4.2 • Unfamiliar paradigm = difficult for new users • “Cult following” of devoted legacy users

5. UI Goals for Director 5.1 • Familiarity • Move to familiar paradigm (Explorer) • Prepare transition to future web version • Coexistence • New features coexist with old • No required task changes • Legacy users can do things the old way

6. Explorer - Very Familiar Paradigm Usable via single-click

7. Director 5.1 – Familiarity Usable via single-click

8. Director 5.1 – Coexistence with Legacy UI

9. Troubleshooting the Console • Console RAS Logs • raswatch -high -console • From Director/log/ directory, rasdump –high > foo.txt • Console stdout/stderr logs • C:\Program Files\IBM\Director\log • com.tivoli.twg.console.ConsoleLauncher.stderr • com.tivoli.twg.console.ConsoleLauncher.stdout • After Console crash, look for exceptions in *.err, *.stderr files

10. IBM Director 5.10Accessibility Enhancements Sherry Pitz

11. Overview • Used checklists provided by IBM Accessibility Center as a guideline for changes to Director user interfaces • Enhancements for 5.10 include • Keyboard equivalents for all actions • Support for high contrast color schemes and large fonts • Coexistence with operating system accessibility features • Enablement for assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers)

12. High Contrast Support

13. Font Size Customization

14. Accessibility Preferences settings panel

15. More Accessibility Support • On Windows, the Console can detect and apply desktop font and color settings • For other platforms, users can select from several font and color settings within the Console • All mouse actions have a keyboard equivalent • Drag-and-drop actions can also be accomplished using buttons or menus (varies per task) • Standard key navigation is used (Tab to navigate forward, Space to select/deselect, etc.) • Key mappings are available in the online helps • Coexistence with operating system accessibility features • MouseKeys • StickyKeys • FilterKeys • Etc.

16. IBM Director 5.10Online Helps and Publications Sandra Kipp Information Development

17. Product information • Information Center • IBM Director Console helps • Softcopy documents (PDFs)

18. Information Center • Single repository for all product-related information (such as planning, installing, managing systems, using UIMs, troubleshooting, reference material and concepts) • Consists of a set of XHTML files and an XML table of contents • Viewed from a standard Web browser using the Eclipse framework • Available from ibm.com (through the IBM Systems (VE) information center) • Navigate using the TOC, search function, and related links • Consistent with Storage Technology Group products • Terminology • Structure • Look and feel

19. Information Center (cont’d)

20. IBM Director Console helps • Continue to use Java help viewer for displaying HTML 3.2 help files. • Help topics will be created using same source as the information center and softcopy books. • New: External extensions can provide an HTML TOC file that is dynamically appended to the bottom of the main TOC.

21. Links from the Console to the helps

22. IBM Director help • The Table of Contents includes: Accessibility What's new Introducing IBM Director Using the IBM Director Console IBM Director tasks IBM Director extensions Managing IBM Director Managing systems IBM Director Console windows Related information

23. Publications (PDFs) • IBM Director • Events Reference • Installation and Configuration Guide • Systems Management Guide • Upward Integration Modules Installation Guide • Web-based Access Installation and User’s Guide • IBM Director extensions • Capacity Manager Installation and User’s Guide • ServeRAID Manager Installation and User’s Guide • System Availability Installation and User’s Guide

24. IBM Director 5.10Event Action Plan Wizard

25. What’s new? • Event Action Plan (EAP) wizard, does not immediately open when IBM Director console first starts • Multiple launch points from IBM Director Console EAP Wizard can be launched from: • Tasks pane • Toolbar Menu • Event Action Plan Builder • Managed Objects’ associations tree • Event action plans can be edited with EAP Wizard • Only event action plans created with EAP wizard can be edited with it • New event filters • Three new event filters: • IBM Director Agent offline • CPU Utilization • Memory use • Resource monitors and threshold event filters • CPU Utilization • Memory use

26. EAP Wizard launch points • IBM Director Console • Menu bar • Located in menu Tasks  Event Action Plans  Event Action Plan Wizard • Toolbar menu button • Right-click on “Event Action Plans” task in Tasks Pane of Director Console • Event Action Plan Builder • Menu bar • Located in File  New  Event Action Plan Wizard • Toolbar menu button • Right-click menu of Event Action Plans pane • Located in New  Event Action Plan Wizard

27. Edit Event Action Plan with wizard - launch points • IBM Director Console • Menu bar  Tasks Menu • Navigate to Event Action Plans, select a plan then right-click to choose “Edit plan with wizard…” • Toolbar menu button for Event Action Plans • Select a plan, and choose “Edit plan with wizard…” • Tasks pane • Right-click on an Event Action Plan and choose “Edit plan with wizard…” • Main console view • If associations with Event Action Plans selected, right-click on a plan associated with a system, and choose“Edit plan with wizard…” • Event Action Plan Builder • Menu bar • When a plan is selected, go to Edit  Edit plan with wizard… • Right-click menu of an Event Action Plan

28. EAP Wizard screens

29. Name screen Enter Event action Plan name

30. Systems screen Select systems that Event Action Plan will be applied to.

31. Event Filters screen Choose event filters. If resource monitor filters (CPU Utilization and/or Memory use) where selected, fill in appropriate threshold values

32. Actions screen Select action(s) that you would like to perform when events chosen on previous screens will be generated Threshold reached

33. Actions screen You may test actions by clicking on “Test Actions” button NOTE: Once action testing started, it may not be interrupted. Testing an action may take several minutes. Threshold reached

34. Actions screen –testing actions You may not stop action testing Threshold reached

35. Time Range screen Select time range in which Event Action Plan will be active. You may either choose to have It active all day, or you can specify specific days and time

36. Summary screen Before you finish , you may review EAP settings.

37. Event Action Plan access points on IBM Director main console

38. Event Action Plan locations on IBM Director main console

39. EAP Wizard access points Popup menu in Event Action Plan Builder

40. Edit with Event Action Plan with EAP Wizard - access points

41. IBM Director 5.10Software Distribution &Software Health Check Matt Posner

42. Software Distribution Enhancements • Distribution to Level 0 & 1 endpoints • Consumption of Solution Install Packages • Delayed Delivery – pre-staging to redirectors and low bandwidth solution

43. Software Health Check • A package is loaded into Software Distribution via the IBM Update Assistant wizard. The XML associated with the package contains health information. • The health check compares the health information in the package loaded against the Director Inventory Database. • The health check is implemented using Director’s Dynamic Group capability. A dynamic group is created with the health criteria specified. The dynamic group will list the endpoints out-of-date as compared to the package previously loaded. • The dynamic group membership will change as endpoints get updated or new endpoints come on-line • The dynamic group can be utilized to distribute the update.

44. Start the health check

45. Report generated

46. Dynamic group created

47. Debugging SWD & SWH • RAS on console/server • Software Distribution – raswatch –sw_dist • Software Health Check – raswatch –sw_health • Logs on level 2 endpoints – Software Distribution only • Windows • swdagent.log contains Software Distribution log endpoint log • Create file swdagent.dbg in log directory to turn on detailed logging • All other endpoints information in TWGRas.log • raswatch –sw_dist • RAS on level 0 & 1 endpoints • Two debug files in log directory • debug_rpd.log • message_rpd.log.

48. IBM Director 5.10Common Command Line Interface (CLI)

49. Director Common Command Line Interface (CLI) Topics to be covered • Highlights of IBM Director CLI (dircli) • Usability Enhancements • dircli Commands Tables • dircmd/dircli Co-Existence • dircmd Command Tables • dircmd to dircli Mapping Chart

50. Highlights for IBM Director CLI (dircli) • High performance through native C client interface • Command execution time about .1 sec • Performance enhanced for scripts running large numbers of dircli commands • New command interfaces based on GNU/POSIX standards with interface convergence with CSM for enhanced usability • Simple invocation • Syntax: dircli command [options] [operands] • No userid/password required; runs under OS user and credentials • User needs to be in group dirsuper • No client prefix (dircli) needed on Unix platforms • Runs locally on the server. Remote access through established mechanisms like telnet, ssh • More secure by using OS based authentication; not susceptible to brute force and directory attacks