© 2006 IBM Corporation IBM Systems and Technology Group IBM Director v5.10 Craig Elliott

© 2006 IBM Corporation 2 IBM Director – Overview  Open, integrated suite of software tools  Provides a consistent, single point of management and automation  Includes tools to monitor the health of your systems and to automatically take action to minimize costly outages  Keep your systems up-to-date and running optimally  Intelligent tools that enable rapid, remote diagnosis and resolution

© 2006 IBM Corporation 3 Multiple Platform Support  Management Console ► xLinux, Windows ► pLinux, AIX ► iLinux ► zLinux  Management Server ► xLinux, Windows ► pLinux, AIX ► iLinux, i5/OS ► zLinux  Managed Object ► Management agents ●xLinux, Windows, Netware, VMware ●pLinux, AIX ●iLinux, i5/OS ●zLinux, ► Management processors ► Storage devices ► SNMP devices

© 2006 IBM Corporation 4 Multi-level Agents IBM Director Server Level 0 Agent No Agent Software Inventory Power Control OOB H/W management Stand-alone RAID management Promotion to L1 or L2 Agent Level 1 Agent H/W CIM instrumentation Inventory Power Control In-band H/W alerting Integrated RAID alerting Promotion to L2 Agent Level 2 Agent Full IBM Director Agent Inventory Power Control Resource monitoring Process management Capacity planning In-band H/W management Integrated RAID management

© 2006 IBM Corporation 5 Comprehensive H/W Mgmt Deploy Maintain Monitor & Alert Analyze & Troubleshoot Optimize Remote Deployment Manager Software Distribution Update Assistant Scheduler Configuration Manager Real Time Diagnostics Remote Control Dynamic System Analysis Virtual Machine Manager Capacity Manager System Availability Inventory Resource Monitor Event Action Plans Hardware Status RAID Management

© 2006 IBM Corporation 6 IBM Director Management Tasks IBM Director Base Functionality Deploy BladeCenter Manager Server Configuration Manager Maintain Update Assistant Scheduler Analyze and Troubleshoot Remote Control File Transfer Monitor HW Status Inventory Resource Monitor Process Management Capacity Manager Software Distr. Premium Edition Remote Deployme nt Manager Electronic Service Agent Virtual Machine Manager HMC Manager Power Executive RAID Mgmt

© 2006 IBM Corporation 7 Management Console  Customizable user interface ► Toolbar icons can be added/removed ► Groups/Tasks panes can be hidden ► Associations per group  Allows logical groupings of systems using dynamic or static groups  Uses drag-and-drop, context- sensitive menus, or smart toolbar icons to launch tasks on individual systems, multiple systems, or entire groups of systems

© 2006 IBM Corporation 8 Upward Integration  Provided by IBM and ISVs  Integration points ► Discovery / Reclassification ► Launch ► Inventory ► Alerting ► Software Distribution Packages ► Help  Events sent from Level 1 and Level 2 Agents to upper level management applications  Events sent from IBM Director Server to Tivoli or SNMP management applications

© 2006 IBM Corporation 9 Virtual Machine Manager  Integration point for VirtualCenter  Adds new managed object types  Initiates Virtual Machine management tasks  Provides correlation between VirtualCenter, Virtual Farm, Physical Host, and Virtual Machines  Supports MS Virtual Server, VMware ESX, and VMware GSX  Supports Director Server on Windows only

© 2006 IBM Corporation 10 HMC Integration  HMC Discovery using Industry Standard SLP  Managed via CIM (SMWG Model)  Show relationships between HMC, pSeries / iSeries Server, LPARs, and installed operating system  Power management on all related managed platforms  Inventory of HMC  Hardware status and alerts integrated into main console  Launch in context to WebSM task on HMC for more advanced tasks

© 2006 IBM Corporation 11 Capacity Management  Diagnoses performance problems, recommends fixes and forecasts future performance using built-in artificial intelligence  Displays server performance data graphically for easy-to-read analysis of system capacity  Reports can be saved in CMR, TXT, HTML, XML formats, or report data saved to SQL database  Ability to send Events based on bottleneck detection

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