IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG10-0267
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• Support for systems-management industry standards.
• Integration into leading workgroup and enterprise systems-management
environments.
• Ease of use, training, and setup.
IBM Director also provides an extensible platform that supports advanced servers
that are designed to help reduce the total cost of managing and supporting
networked systems. By deploying IBM Director, you may achieve reductions in
ownership costs through the following potential benefits:
• Reduced downtime
• Increased productivity of IT personnel and users
• Reduced service and support costs
For more information about IBM Director, refer to the CD that comes with the server
or the IBM Director documentation on the CD, or visit
http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/resources/
IBM Director includes IBM Director Extensions, a portfolio of server tools
that integrates into the IBM Director interface and works with the Integrated
Management Module, or other systems-management monitoring functions contained
in IBM System x® servers. Typical functions and monitoring capabilities can include:
• Predictable Failure Analysis is enabled for critical hardware components (PFA)
• Temperature
• Voltage
• Fan speed
• Light path diagnostics
The IT administrator gains comprehensive, virtual on-site control of IBM System X5
servers through the ability to remotely:
• Access the server, in many cases regardless of its status
• Inventory and display detailed system and component information
• View server bootup during POST
• Browse and delete logs of events and errors
• Reset or power cycle the server
• Run diagnostics, SCSI, and RAID setup during POST
• Monitor thresholds on server health including:
– Operating system load
– POST time-out
– Voltage
– Temperature
• Set proactive alerts for critical server events including PFA on:
– Processors
– Memory
– Fans
– Power supplies
– HDDs
• Define automated actions such as:
– Send an e-mail or page to an administrator
– Execute a command or program
– Pop up an error message to the IBM Director console
