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IBM Systems Director 6.3 Best Practices Front cover IBM Systems Director 6.3 Best Practices Provides additional guidance beyond standard instructions Covers basic and advanced features Learn from the experts in the field Rufus Credle Srikanth Aithal Nicolas Bour Stephane Bourdeaud Tomi Mannikainen Olaf Menke Juan P Fernandez Sabate ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization IBM Systems Director 6.3 Best Practices November 2013 SG24-8141-00 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page ix. First Edition (November 2013) This edition applies to IBM Systems Director V6.3 Express, Standard, and Enterprise Edition. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2013. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . ix Trademarks . .x Preface . xi Authors. xii Now you can become a published author, too! . xiv Comments welcome. .xv Stay connected to IBM Redbooks . .xv Chapter 1. Positioning IBM Systems Director . 1 1.1 Description of IBM Systems Director . 2 1.2 Functionality of IBM Systems Director . 2 1.3 Positioning of IBM Systems Director. 3 1.4 IBM Systems Director and IBM Flex Systems Manager . 4 1.5 Best practices . 5 Chapter 2. Planning . 7 2.1 System resources . 8 2.2 IBM Systems Workload Estimator. 9 2.3 Before you begin . 15 2.4 Best Practice for planning endpoint management . 18 2.5 Firewall ports. 19 2.6 IBM Systems Director Editions . 24 2.7 Architectural decisions and recommendations . 26 2.7.1 Determine which agent to use to manage your systems . 26 2.7.2 Determine how to deploy your agents. 30 2.7.3 Determine if you should run Systems Director server in a virtual machine. 30 2.7.4 Determine what type of database to use with Systems Director server . 31 2.7.5 Determine the networks that your server should be connected to . 31 2.7.6 Determine how to make your solution highly available . 32 2.7.7 Determine how to deal with distributed environments. 32 2.8 Best practices . 32 Chapter 3. Installation. 35 3.1 Installation of IBM Systems Director server on an x86 platform . 36 3.1.1 Supported operating systems . 36 3.1.2 Installation of Linux on x86 systems . 38 3.1.3 Installation on Windows . 44 3.1.4 Post Installation Validation tool . 52 3.1.5 Starting IBM Systems Director . 55 3.2 Installing IBM Systems Director server on an AIX platform. 57 3.2.1 Downloading the software. 57 3.2.2 Prerequisites . 58 3.2.3 Installation. 60 3.2.4 DB2 settings . 62 3.2.5 Initial login . 65 3.2.6 Installing the IBM Systems Director license . 67 3.3 Installation of IBM Systems Director server for a Linux on Power platform . 68 3.3.1 Downloading the software. 68 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2013. All rights reserved. iii 3.3.2 Prerequisites . 68 3.3.3 Installing the IBM Systems Director server . 71 3.4 Installation of the IBM Systems Director agent on Linux x86 . 73 3.5 Best practices . 76 Chapter 4. Basic management tasks. 77 4.1 Discovery . 78 4.1.1 Discovery profiles . 79 4.1.2 BladeCenter discovery . 82 4.1.3 Best practices for discovery . 85 4.2 Inventory . 86 4.2.1 Inventory data and collection profiles . 86 4.2.2 Collecting inventory. 93 4.2.3 Viewing inventory . 96 4.2.4 Exporting inventory . 99 4.2.5 Best practices for inventory. 103 4.3 Updates. 104 4.3.1 Prerequisites . 104 4.3.2 What can be updated . 104 4.3.3 Settings for Update Manager . 106 4.3.4 Update Manager with Internet connection . 110 4.3.5 Update Manager with no Internet connection . 112 4.3.6 Compliance check. 114 4.3.7 Update process. 121 4.3.8 Updating systems that run AIX and Linux. 132 4.3.9 Updating the Systems Director server . 134 4.3.10 Downloading and staging updates manually. 137 4.3.11 Command-line tools . 139 4.3.12 Best practices for Update Manager. 142 4.4 Event management . 143 4.4.1 Light.
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