Ibm Systems Director - IBM System x3550 M3 Type 4254 Installation And User Manual

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
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
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
v Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan that
v Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the base
v Managing the life cycles of virtual resources
For more information about IBM Systems Director, see the documentation on the
IBM Systems Director CD that comes with the server and the IBM xSeries Systems
Management Web page at http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/, which
presents an overview of IBM Systems Management and IBM Systems Director.
protocol bus
IMM firmware, and read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the
LAN
SAS/SATA (hot-swap hard disk drive) backplane
detailed inventory and relationships to the other network resources
sources of the problems
updates on a schedule
the administrator of emerging problems
can apply those settings to multiple systems
capabilities
Chapter 1. The IBM System x3550 M3 server
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