What Your Server Offers - IBM x3550 M4 Type 7914 Installation And Service Manual

What your server offers

This section introduces features and technologies the server uses and provides.
v Active Energy Manager
v Dynamic System Analysis (DSA)
v Features on Demand
v IBM ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD
v IBM Systems Director
v Integrated Management Module II (IMM2)
The IBM Active Energy Manager solution is an IBM Systems Director plug-in
that measures and reports server power consumption as it occurs. This enables
you to monitor power consumption in correlation to specific software
application programs and hardware configurations. You can obtain the
measurement values through the systems-management interface and view them,
using IBM Systems Director. For more information, including the required levels
of IBM Systems Director and Active Energy Manager, see the IBM Systems
Director Information Center at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/director/
pubs/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.director.main.helps.doc%2Ffqm0_main.html
or see http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/downloads.html.
The server comes with the IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
diagnostic program. DSA collects and analyzes system information to aid in
diagnosing server problems, as well as offering a rich set of diagnostic tests of
the major components of the server. DSA creates a DSA log, which is a
chronologically ordered merge of the system-event log (as the IPMI event log),
the integrated management module (IMM) event log (as the ASM event log),
and the operating-system event logs. You can send the DSA log as a file to IBM
Support or view the information as a text file or HTML file.
Two editions of Dynamic System Analysis are available: DSA Portable and DSA
Preboot. For more information about both editions, see "DSA editions" on page
150.
If a Features on Demand feature is integrated in the server or in an optional
device that is installed in the server, you can purchase an activation key to
activate the feature. For information about Features on Demand, see
/http://www.ibm.com/systems/x/fod/.
The ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD, which you can download from the
web, provides programs to help you set up the server and install a Windows
operating system. The ServerGuide program detects installed optional hardware
devices and provides the correct configuration programs and device drivers. For
more information about the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD, see "Using the
ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD" on page 104.
IBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the
way you manage physical and virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment.
By using industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating
systems and virtualization technologies. For more information, see the IBM
Systems Director Information Center at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/
director/pubs/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.director.main.helps.doc
%2Ffqm0_main.html and "IBM Systems Director" on page 15.
The integrated management module II (IMM2) combines service processor
functions, video controller, and remote presence and blue-screen capture features
in a single chip. The IMM provides advanced service-processor control,
monitoring, and alerting function. If an environmental condition exceeds a
threshold or if a system component fails, the IMM lights LEDs to help you
diagnose the problem, records the error in the IMM event log, and alerts you to
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