IBM Systems DirectorIBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines theway you manage physical and virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment. Byusing industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operatingsystems and virtualization technologies in IBM and non-IBM x86 platforms.Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent viewsfor viewing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one other,and identifying their statuses, helping to correlate technical resources with businessneeds. A set of common tasks that are included with IBM Systems Directorprovides many of the core capabilities that are required for basic management,which means instant out-of-the-box business value. The common tasks are listedbelow:v Discoveryv Inventoryv Configurationv System healthv Monitoringv Updatesv Event notificationv Automation for managed systemsThe IBM Systems Director Web and command-line interfaces provide a consistentinterface that is focused on driving these common tasks and capabilities:v Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with thedetailed inventory and relationships to the other network resourcesv Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to isolate thesources of the problemsv Notifying users when systems need updates and distributing and installingupdates on a schedulev Analyzing real-time data for systems and setting critical thresholds that notifythe administrator of emerging problemsv Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan thatcan apply those settings to multiple systemsv Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the basecapabilitiesv Managing the life cycles of virtual resourcesFor more information about IBM Systems Director, see the IBM Systems DirectorInformation Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r1x/index.jsp?topic=/director_6.1/fqm0_main.html, and the Systems Management webpage at http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/, which presents an overviewof IBM Systems Management and IBM Systems Director.Chapter 1. The IBM System x3650 M4 BD Type 5466 server 15
