Ibm Systems Director; Discovering The Imm2 Of An X3850 X6 Out-Of-Band Via Ibm Systems Director - IBM x3850 X6 Planning And Implementation Manual

7.4 IBM Systems Director

IBM Systems Director is a platform manager that offers the following benefits:
Enables the management of X6 physical servers and virtual servers that are running on
the X6 platform.
Helps to reduce the complexity and costs of managing X6 platforms. IBM Systems
Director is the platform management tool for the X6 platform that provides hardware
monitoring and management.
Provides a central control point for managing your X6 servers and managing all other IBM
System x servers.
You connect to IBM Systems Director server through a web browser. You can install IBM
Systems Director server on the following systems: IBM AIX®, Windows, Linux on Power,
Linux on x86, or Linux on IBM System z®.
IBM Systems Director provides the following functionality for X6 systems, as well as many
other system types:
Discovery and inventory
Monitoring and reporting
Software updates
Configuration management
Virtual resource management
Remote control, which includes power control
Automation
In 7.2, "Integrated Management Module II (IMM2)" on page 201, we described the concepts
of in-band and out-of-band management of the IMM2. In this section, we demonstrate how to
discover a X6 system via IBM Systems Director.
7.4.1 Discovering the IMM2 of an x3850 X6 out-of-band via IBM Systems
Director
After your IMM2 has been configured for out-of-band management, as described in 7.2.1,
"Configuring IMM2 for out-of-band-management" on page 201, you can discover the system
from within IBM Systems Director. After the IMM2 has been added to the IBM Systems
Director console, you can perform management tasks against it.
Perform these steps to discover and add the IMM2 to the IBM Systems Director console:
1. Log in to the IBM Systems Director web interface by navigating to the following website,
where servername is the Domain Name System (DNS) registered name of your IBM
Systems Director:
http://servername:8421/ibm/console
For example: http://director6.ibm.com:8421/ibm/console
You can also connect to the IBM Systems Director web interface using its IP address:
http://IPaddress:8421/ibm/console
For example: http://182.168.1.10:8421/ibm/console
Tip: We advise that you configure your IBM Systems Director server correctly to use
DNS for name resolution. We also advise that you register the IMM2 in DNS to simplify
the management of the IMM2 out-of-band.
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