Systems Director - Lenovo x3300 M4 7382 Installation And Service Manual

• Standby voltage for system-management features and monitoring
• Startup (boot) from LAN through remote initial program load (RIPL) or dynamic host configuration
protocol/boot protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
• System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
• System-error logging (POST and IMM)
• Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) protocol bus
• Uncorrectable error (UE) detection
• Upgradeable POST, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), diagnostics, IMM firmware, and read-
only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the LAN
• Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system board, power supplies, and SAS/SATA (hot-swap
hard disk drive) backplane
• Wake on LAN capability

Systems Director

Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the way you manage physical and
virtual systems supports multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies in Lenovo and non-
Lenovo x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, Systems Director provides consistent views for viewing managed systems,
determining how these systems relate to one other, and identifying their statuses, helping to correlate
technical resources with business needs. A set of common tasks that are included with Systems Director
provides many of the core capabilities that are required for basic management, which means instant out-of-
the-box business value. The common tasks include the following:
• Discovery
• Inventory
• Configuration
• System health
• Monitoring
• Updates
• Event notification
• Automation for managed systems
The Systems Director Web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent interface that is focused on
driving these common tasks and capabilities:
• Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed inventory and
relationships to the other network resources
• Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to isolate the sources of the problems
• Notifying users when systems need updates and distributing and installing updates on a schedule
• Analyzing real-time data for systems and setting critical thresholds that notify the administrator of
emerging problems
• Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan that can apply those settings to
multiple systems
• Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the base capabilities
• Managing the life cycles of virtual resources
For more information about Systems Director, see the Systems Director Information Center at
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r1x/index.jsp?topic=/director_6.1/fqm0_main.html
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