Ibm Systems Director - IBM System x3550 M4 Installation And Service Manual

v Power management: Compliance with Advanced Configuration and Power
v Power-on self-test (POST)
v Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts on memory, microprocessors, SAS/SATA
v Redundant Ethernet capabilities with failover support
v Redundant hot-swap power supplies and redundant hot-swap fans
v Redundant network interface card (NIC) support
v Remind button to temporarily turn off the system-error LED
v Remote system problem-determination support
v ROM-based diagnostics
v ROM checksums
v Serial Presence Detection (SPD) on memory, VPD on system board, power
v Single-DIMM isolation of excessive correctable error or multi-bit error by the
v Solid state drives
v Standby voltage for system-management features and monitoring
v Startup (boot) from LAN through remote initial program load (RIPL) or dynamic
v System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
v System-error logging (POST and IMM)
v Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (IC)
v Uncorrectable error (UE) detection
v Upgradeable POST, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), diagnostics,
v Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system board, power supplies, and
v Wake on LAN capability

IBM Systems Director

IBM 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 IBM and non-IBM x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, IBM 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 IBM 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 items:
v Discovery
v Inventory
v Configuration
v System health
v Monitoring
v Updates
v Event notification
v Automation for managed systems
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Interface (ACPI)
hard disk drives or solid state drives, fans, power supplies, and VRM
supply, and hard disk drive or solid state drive backplanes, microprocessor and
memory expansion tray, and Ethernet cards
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
host configuration protocol/boot protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
protocol bus
IMM firmware, and read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the
LAN
SAS/SATA (hot-swap hard disk drive or solid state drive) backplane