Ibm Systems Director - IBM 7947E3U User Manual

v Menu-driven setup, system configuration, and redundant array of independent
v Parity checking or CRC checking on the serially-attached SCSI (SAS) bus and
v Power management: compliance with Advanced Configuration and Power
v Power-on self-test (POST)
v Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts on memory, SAS/SATA hard disk drives,
v Redundant Ethernet capabilities with failover support
v Redundant hot-swap power supplies
v Remind button to temporarily turn off the system-error LED
v Remote system problem-determination support
v Standby voltage for systems-management features and monitoring
v Startup (boot) from LAN through Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot
v System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
v System error logging (POST and service processor)
v Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I
v Upgradeable POST, UEFI, diagnostics, service processor microcode, and
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 in a heterogeneous environment. By
using industry standards, IBM Systems Director 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 another,
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. These common tasks include discovery,
inventory, configuration, system health, monitoring, updates, event notification, and
automation for managed systems.
The IBM Systems Director Web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent
interface that is focused on driving these common tasks and capabilities:
v Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed
v Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to isolate the
v Notifying users when systems need updates and distributing and installing
v Analyzing real-time data for systems and setting critical thresholds that notify the
v Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan that can
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disks (RAID) configuration programs
PCI buses
Interface (ACPI)
fans, and power supplies
agent utility or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol/Boot Protocol
(DHCP/BOOTP)
read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the LAN
SAS (hot-swap-drive) backplane
inventory and relationships to the other network resources
sources of the problems
updates on a schedule
administrator of emerging problems
apply those setting to multiple systems
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