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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. These common tasks include discovery,
inventory, configuration, system health, monitoring, updates, event notification, and
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:

Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed
inventory and relationships to the other network resources

Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to isolate the
sources of the problems

Notifying users when systems need updates and distributing and installing
updates on a schedule

Analyzing real-time data for systems and setting critical thresholds that notify the
administrator of emerging problems

Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan that can
apply those setting to multiple systems

Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the base
capabilities

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.

The Update

Xpress

System Packs

The Update

Xpress

System Packs provide an effective and simple way to update

device drivers, server firmware, and firmware of supported options contained within
the server, for System x

and IBM BladeCenter

servers. Each Update

Xpress

System Pack contains all the online driver and firmware updates for a specific
machine type and operating system combination. The Update

Xpress

System Packs

are released quarterly. Use the Update

Xpress

System Pack Installer to install the

current Update

Xpress

System Pack for your server.

Important:

Some cluster solutions require specific code levels or coordinated code

updates. If the device is part of a cluster solution, verify that the latest level of code
is supported for the cluster solution before you update the code.

You can download the installer and the latest Update

Xpress

System Pack for your

server from the Web at no additional cost. To download the installer or the latest
Update

Xpress

System Pack, go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/

supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-XPRESS&brandind=5000008 or
complete the following steps.

Note:

Changes are made periodically to the IBM Web site. The actual procedure

might vary slightly from what is described in this document.

1. Got to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.

Chapter 1. Introduction