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- IBM Director Server Migration Outline
- Whether upgrading to new hardware or a new version of IBM Director, it is often desirable to bring up and test a new IBM Director Server before migrating monitoring to it. This paper describes several considerations and processes to assist in this migration. This paper deals solely with upgrading the...
- Tags: IBM Director, Migration, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-27
- VMware, IBM Director, and ServeRAID Manager
- With the growing emphasis on improved utilization and server consolidation in the data center, virtualizations, and specifically VMware, are becoming widely used. Usually the concept of virtualization is usually associated with high-end servers, such as the IBM's family of X3 servers (x3850, x3950 and their predecessors the x366 and x460)...
- Tags: IBM Director, VMware Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-31
- Installing IBM Director 5.2 in a Server 2003 Environment
- Hi All,I am trying to install IBM Director in our test Server 2003 environement.I want a seperate LAN just for Director, and I'm using a spare 8 port router with DHCP turned on for the subnet 192.168.21.X.All servers will use BMC connections as we don't have RSA-II adapters.After many fruitless...
- Tags: NETWORKING, BIOS, LANs, Network technology, gdavies@..., network interface card, first NIC, Server 2003, DHCP, LAN, IBM Director, IP, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- IBM Director on System p5
- This paper positions the new IBM Director V5.20 against the other IBM systems management products. Although IBM systems management software products include several choices as Cluster Systems Management and IBM Tivoli Management suite, and some features might seem to overlap, each product targets a specific environment. This paper will help...
- Tags: IBM Director, IBM Corp., It Services, Network Administration, Linux, Operating Systems, Networking, Software
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director
- IBM Director Version 5.10 added support for managing the IBM TotalStorage DS300 iSCSI and DS400 Fibre storage subsystems as SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification storage devices. SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA for storage devices. The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative SMI was created to...
- Tags: Storage Management, IBM Director, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., SMI-S, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-26
- Integrating IBM Director With IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- The IBM Director integration into IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides IBM Director customers with access to the complete Tivoli Enterprise management environment. IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a dynamic, end-to-end monitoring solution for proactively managing the performance and availability of the entire IT infrastructure. It monitors IT resources across the enterprise in...
- Tags: Monitoring, IBM Director, IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- White papers 2006-01-16
- Managing VMware ESX Server Using IBM Director: Version 2.5
- VMware ESX Server is virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing systems in mission-critical environments. VMware ESX Server transforms physical systems into a pool of logical computing resources. Operating systems and applications are isolated in multiple virtual machines that reside on a single physical server. System resources are dynamically...
- Tags: IBM Director, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Virtual Machine, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-12-22
- IBM Director install hits snags: Is it worth it?
- Withincreasing numbers of servers in various locations around the world, monitoringthings such as disk space, load, and network status can be a bit of a headache.This is especially true in a non-windows server environment. There are quite afew offerings which will or claim to solve problems of control faced byadministrators....
- Tags: IBM Corp., IBM Director, monitoring, server, serverS
- Blog posts 2005-11-21
- IBM Director and Tools on Linux
- The purpose of this paper is to document how to first install and configure the required Linux services, then how to install IBM Director and other xSeries Systems Management Tools. This document will focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 ES Update 4, IBM Director v4.21, IBM Server Plus Pack...
- Tags: IBM Director, Tool, IBM Corp., Linux, Productivity, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Monitoring Redundant Uninterruptible Power Supplies Using IBM Director
- Most UPS monitoring software assumes the server is communicating directly with, and getting power from, only one UPS. Larger UPSes have multiple communication ports or network ports to allow multiple servers to monitor the state of the UPS. This paper will discuss and demonstrate using IBM Director to monitor UPSes...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Monitoring, IBM Director, Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, IBM Corp., Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2004-01-22
- Managing IBM eServer BladeCenter Systems With IBM Director V4.1 and Remote Deployment Manager V4.1
- This paper describes how to install IBM eServer BladeCenter using IBM Director Director and IBM Remote Deployment Manager RDM. It provides a concise set of instructions based on several existing documents and product publications. The BladeCenter has been designed as a solution rather than simply as a set of servers....
- Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM eServer, IBM Director, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2004-01-01
Additional Resources
- Firmware version retrieval
- My task is to retrieve hdd's and raid controllers firmware versions for about 500+ servers.The servers are mainly IBM x series with IBM serveraid and director installed.Searching the web for any info I found out that the ServeRAID has no cli, so my next guess is to try Director.I have...
- Tags: Servers, ched.smokovic, IBM Corp., firmware
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- IBMDirector raid storage management
- I would like to use IBM Director to viewthe raid configuration and possibly make changes to raid logical drives.Is it possible for IBM Director to query theraid configuration of Dell PowerEdge serversthat have adaptec and lsi perc controllers?I was starting to look at ServeRaid, but itlooks like the agent can...
- Tags: Servers, storage, jrusso@..., IBM Corp., server, storage management
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- IBM EnergyScale for POWER6 Processor-Based Systems
- Energy costs consuming your data center budget? Discover how to control heating, cooling, and power consumption with IBM EnergyScale technology. This IBM technical paper explains how each EnergyScale tool works within your IBM POWER6 System and describes how the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager provides easy energy monitoring.
- Tags: Processor, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Managing value with IBM Service Management
- This IBM TV video features Don O'Toole, Director of IBM Tivoli Strategy, discussing how visibility, control and automation are key aspects of managing value with service management.
- Tags: Service Management, IBM Corp., It Services
- Presentations
- Server Consolidation With VMware ESX Server
- This IBM paper discusses server consolidation options and considerations using VMware ESX Server on IBM eServer BladeCenter and IBM eServer xSeries 445 hardware. In addition, systems management options using VMware VirtualCenter, VMotion, VMware P2V Assistant, and IBM Director with VMM are also discussed. This IBM paper provides an overview of...
- Tags: IBM eServer, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, Server Consolidation, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2005-01-11
- IBM extends Autonomic computing features for simpler datacenter management
- IBM announced Systems Director Active Energy Manager AME and several self management capabilities to its Tivoli Software Suite. An excerpt from ZDNet: This week IBM introduced a new version of its Systems Director Active Energy Manager AME, energy management software that tracks power consumption in data...
- Tags: Datacenter Management, Data Center, Autonomic Computing, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-10
- Lenovo gets license to make IBM's xSeries
- In a move that has resellers expressing their doubts, Lenovo will sell IBM-based x86 servers using technology licensed from IBM. This is unlike the outright purchase of IBM's laptop and PC business in 2005. IBM denies that there is any ambiguity of strategic direction. According to...
- Tags: IBM xSeries, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- IBM (widget)
- The IBM widget gives you access to various IBM functions and information. For example: IBM news, the latest special offers from IBM, contact information for IBM employees (and for customers we recognize, their account rep. information as well). In addition, you can search IBM's Web site and also get IBM...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Web Site Development, Investment, Financial Accounting, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Finance, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-03-29
- Improve Business Responsiveness and Compliance with SOA
- Find out why a growing number of companies are adopting SOA to create a more competitive business environment while meeting compliance standards. In your business today, you face pressure to be more flexible and responsive to changes in market opportunities. But you are also rightfully concerned that...
- Tags: Compliance, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
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