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management module
blade server
6.4.2 Active Energy Manager components
The three major Active Energy Manager (AEM) components are:
Active Energy Manager Server
Active Energy Manager Console
Active Energy Manager Database
This section also discusses AEM's monitoring capabilities.
Active Energy Manager Server
Active Energy Manager Server maintains the AEM environment and manages all
AEM operations. AEM Server communicates out-of-band with each managed
object to collect power information. In the case of a BladeCenter chassis, it
communicates with the management module in the chassis. In the case of a
rack-mounted server, it communicates with the BMC.
AEM Server also communicates with the Director Server to provide event filtering
and event actions that support IBM Director event action plans, and
communicates with Director Console to display status and to allow the user to
perform operations. You must install AEM Server on the IBM Director
management server. Power data is collected only while the Active Energy
Manager Server is running. When you install AEM, the server starts running. It
runs when the IBM Director Server is running. By default, it collects data on the
BladeCenter chassis and rack-mounted servers every minute, but the collection
interval can be configured on the Manage Trend Data window in the a graphical
user interface (GUI).
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Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2
A BladeCenter component that is inserted in a bay in a
BladeCenter chassis. See BladeCenter system. The
management module
and
modules you can insert in a BladeCenter chassis.
The BladeCenter component that handles
system-management functions. It configures the
BladeCenter chassis and switch modules,
communicates with the blade servers and all I/O
modules, multiplexes the keyboard/video/mouse
(KVM), and monitors critical information about the
chassis and blade servers.
A complete server with a combination of processors,
memory, and network interfaces, and with supporting
hardware and firmware. The blade server may occupy
one or more slots in a BladeCenter chassis.
blade server
are two types of
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