IBM Director v5.10

1. IBM Director v5.10 Craig Elliott elliottc@us.ibm.com

2. IBM Director – Overview • Open, integrated suite of software tools • Provides a consistent, single point of management and automation • Includes tools to monitor the health of your systems and to automatically take action to minimize costly outages • Keep your systems up-to-date and running optimally • Intelligent tools that enable rapid, remote diagnosis and resolution

3. Multiple Platform Support • Management Console • xLinux, Windows • pLinux, AIX • iLinux • zLinux • Management Server • xLinux, Windows • pLinux, AIX • iLinux, i5/OS • zLinux • Managed Object • Management agents • xLinux, Windows, Netware, VMware • pLinux, AIX • iLinux, i5/OS • zLinux, • Management processors • Storage devices • SNMP devices

4. Multi-level Agents IBM Director Server • Level 0 Agent • No Agent Software • Inventory • Power Control • OOB H/W management • Stand-alone RAID management • Promotion to L1 or L2 Agent • Level 1 Agent • H/W CIM instrumentation • Inventory • Power Control • In-band H/W alerting • Integrated RAID alerting • Promotion to L2 Agent • Level 2 Agent • Full IBM Director Agent • Inventory • Power Control • Resource monitoring • Process management • Capacity planning • In-band H/W management • Integrated RAID management

5. Open Easy To Use Integrated Comprehensive H/W Mgmt Remote Deployment Manager Deploy Maintain Hardware Status Configuration Manager Software Distribution Event Action Plans Inventory Resource Monitor Update Assistant RAID Management Scheduler Monitor & Alert Real Time Diagnostics System Availability Capacity Manager Dynamic System Analysis Remote Control Virtual Machine Manager Optimize Analyze & Troubleshoot

6. IBM Director Management Tasks Electronic Service Agent Virtual Machine Manager HMC Manager Power Executive RAID Mgmt Capacity Manager Software Distr. Premium Edition Remote Deployment Manager IBM Director Base Functionality • Deploy • BladeCenter Manager • Server Configuration Manager • Maintain • Update Assistant • Scheduler • Analyze and Troubleshoot • Remote Control • File Transfer • Monitor • HW Status • Inventory • Resource Monitor • Process Management

7. Management Console • Customizable user interface • Toolbar icons can be added/removed • Groups/Tasks panes can be hidden • Associations per group • Allows logical groupings of systems using dynamic or static groups • Uses drag-and-drop, context-sensitive menus, or smart toolbar icons to launch tasks on individual systems, multiple systems, or entire groups of systems

8. Upward Integration • Provided by IBM and ISVs • Integration points • Discovery / Reclassification • Launch • Inventory • Alerting • Software Distribution Packages • Help • Events sent from Level 1 and Level 2 Agents to upper level management applications • Events sent from IBM Director Server to Tivoli or SNMP management applications

9. Virtual Machine Manager • Integration point for VirtualCenter • Adds new managed object types • Initiates Virtual Machine management tasks • Provides correlation between VirtualCenter, Virtual Farm, Physical Host, and Virtual Machines • Supports MS Virtual Server, VMware ESX, and VMware GSX • Supports Director Server on Windows only

10. HMC Integration • HMC Discovery using Industry Standard SLP • Managed via CIM (SMWG Model) • Show relationships between HMC, pSeries / iSeries Server, LPARs, and installed operating system • Power management on all related managed platforms • Inventory of HMC • Hardware status and alerts integrated into main console • Launch in context to WebSM task on HMC for more advanced tasks

11. Capacity Management • Diagnoses performance problems, recommends fixes and forecasts future performance using built-in artificial intelligence • Displays server performance data graphically for easy-to-read analysis of system capacity • Reports can be saved in CMR, TXT, HTML, XML formats, or report data saved to SQL database • Ability to send Events based on bottleneck detection

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