Systems Director - Lenovo x3650 M4 BD 5466 Installation And Service Manual

• Startup (boot) from LAN through Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot agent utility or Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol/Boot Protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
• System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
• System error logging (POST and service processor)
• Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I
• Upgradeable POST, UEFI, diagnostics, service processor microcode, and read-only memory (ROM)
resident code, locally or over the LAN
• Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system board, power supplies, and SAS (hot-swap-drive)
backplane
• Wake on LAN capability for remote power up

Systems Director

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, Systems Director supports
multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies in 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 are listed below:
• 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
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r1x/index.jsp?topic=/director_6.1/fqm0_main.html, and
the Systems Management web page at http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/solutions/, which presents an
overview of Systems Management and Systems Director.
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