Chapter 6.Appliance Configuration Programs; Universal Manageability Services - IBM xSeries 150 User Reference Manual

Chapter 6. Appliance Configuration Programs

Universal Manageability Services

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Your xSeries appliance server comes with programs that can be used to configure,
manage, and maintain your appliance server. These configuration programs include:
• Universal Manageability Services
Universal Manageability Services (UM Services) provides point-to-point remote
management of client systems through a Web browser window. Use UM
Services to:
— Learn detailed inventory information about your computers, including
operating system, memory, network cards and hardware.
— Track your computers proactively with features such as power
management, event log, and system monitor capabilities.
— Upwardly integrate with Tivoli Enterprise, Tivoli NetView, Computer
Associates Unicenter, Microsoft SMS, and Intel LANDesk Management
Suite.
• IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility
The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility aids in setting up and
reconfiguring the network configuration on your appliance servers. The
Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility agent, preinstalled on your IBM
xSeries appliance, works with the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility
console to automatically detect the presence of appliances on the network. Once
the appliance server is detected by the Advanced Appliance Configuration
Utility console, use the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility to set up and
manage the appliance's network configuration, including assigning the IP
address, default gateway, network mask, and DNS server to be used by the
appliance. You can also use the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility to
start UM Services on the appliance, enabling you to perform more advanced
systems management tasks.
• Terminal Services Client
Because your xSeries appliance server is installed in a "headless" environment
(meaning that the appliance does not have a mouse or keyboard attached to it),
you must perform systems management tasks on the appliance from a remote
systems management console. The Terminal Services Client, when installed on a
workstation that is attached to the same network as the appliance server, enables
remote administration of the appliance.
Information about each of these appliance configuration programs follows.
Universal Manageability Services (UM Services) is a suite of graphical user interfaces
(GUIs) that enhances the local or remote administration, monitoring, and
maintenance of IBM systems. UM Services is a lightweight client that resides on each
managed computer system. With UM Services, a client-system user or remote systems
administrator can use a supported Web browser or the Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) and UM Services Web console support to inventory, monitor, and
troubleshoot IBM systems on which UM Services is installed.
This "point-to-point" systems-management approach, in which a system-management
administrator uses a Web browser to connect directly to a remote client system, can be
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