Ibm Systems Director - IBM System x3250 M3 Type 4251 Installation And User Manual

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 Upgradeable POST, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), diagnostics,
v Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessor, system board, power supply, 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 and 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. The following common tasks are included:
v Discovery
v Inventory
v Configuration
v System health
v Monitoring
v Updates
v Event notification
v 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
v Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the base
v Managing the life cycles of virtual resources
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IBM System x3250 M3 Types 4251, 4252, and 4261: Installation and User's Guide
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) backplane
inventory and relationships to the other network resources
sources of the problems
updates on a schedule
administrator of emerging problems
apply those settings to multiple systems
capabilities