Ibm Systems Director - IBM System x3550 M4 Installation And User Manual

v Parity checking on the small computer system interface (SCSI) bus and PCI
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 and redundant hot-swap fans
v Redundant Network Interface Card (NIC) support
v Remind button to temporarily turn off the system-error LED
v Remote system problem-determination support
v ROM-based diagnostics
v ROM checksums
v Serial Presence Detection (SPD) on memory, VPD, power supply, and hard disk
v Single-DIMM isolation of excessive correctable error or multi-bit error by the
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 IMM2)
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 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 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 other, 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 common tasks include the following:
v Discovery
v Inventory
v Configuration
v System health
v Monitoring
v Updates
v Event notification
v Automation for managed systems
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IBM System x3550 M4 Type 7914: Installation and User's Guide
buses
Interface (ACPI)
fans, and power supplies
drives backplane
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
host configuration protocol/boot protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
protocol bus
IMM2 firmware, and read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the
LAN
SAS/SATA (hot-swap hard disk drive) backplane