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IBM Director 4.11 Systems Management Guide SC90-P290-60 IBM Director 4.11 Systems Management Guide SC90-P290-60 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in Appendix E, “Notices”, on page 249. Second Edition (September 2003) © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2003. All rights reserved. US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Figures............................ix Tables............................xiii About this book ........................xv How this book is organized ....................xv Notices that are used in this book ..................xvi IBM Director publications .....................xvi IBM Director resources on the World Wide Web ............xvii Chapter 1. Introducing IBM Director .................1 IBM Director environment .....................1 IBM Director components .....................2 IBM Director Server ......................3 IBM Director Agent .......................4 IBM Director Console ......................4 IBM Director Agent features ....................5 ServeRAID Manager ......................5 Management Processor Assistant Agent ...............5 IBM Director Remote Control Agent.................5 Web-based Access .......................5 Web-based Access help files ...................6 System Health Monitoring ....................6 SNMP Access and Trap Forwarding ................6 IBM Director extensions ......................6 IBM Director Server Plus Pack ..................6 IBM Director Software Distribution (Premium Edition) ..........8 IBM Remote Deployment Manager .................8 IBM Scalable Systems Manager ..................9 Additional IBM Director extensions .................9 Upgrading from previous releases of IBM Director ............9 Chapter 2. Understanding IBM Director Console ...........11 The IBM Director Console interface .................11 Starting tasks ........................12 Managed systems and managed objects ..............12 Groups ...........................13 Associations .........................19 Events and alerts ........................20 Event action plans .......................20 Implementing an event action plan.................21 Viewing and changing system variables ...............25 Enabling and viewing an event action history .............26 Viewing event action plan associations ...............26 Restricting event action plans ..................26 Exporting event action plans ...................26 Importing event action plans ...................27 Scheduler ...........................27 Starting Scheduler ......................28 Viewing information about scheduled jobs ..............33 Viewing job properties .....................34 Viewing scheduled job history information ..............34 Viewing execution history logs ..................34 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2003 iii Message Browser ........................35 User Administration .......................35 Encryption administration .....................36 Chapter 3. Working with managed systems using IBM Director Console tasks ...........................37 Support for IBM Director Console tasks ................37 Operating-system support for IBM Director Console tasks ........37 IBM Director Console task support for BladeCenter products .......38 Active PCI Manager .......................40 Fault Tolerant Management Interface (FTMI) .............40 Slot Manager ........................44 Asset ID ...........................51 BladeCenter Assistant ......................52 Starting the BladeCenter Configuration or BladeCenter Management subtask 53 BladeCenter Configuration subtask ................54 BladeCenter Management subtask ................60 Deployment Wizard subtask ...................64 Switch Management LaunchPad subtask ..............75 Capacity Manager........................76 Viewing and activating monitors..................76 Identifying bottlenecks .....................77 Receiving automatic notification of a bottleneck ............78 Generating a report ......................80 Viewing report details .....................84 Saving and printing a report ...................84 Viewing previously generated reports................85 Predicting future performance ..................85 Viewing a performance forecast graph ...............85 Changing settings .......................87 CIM Browser..........................87 Starting the CIM Browser task ..................87 Viewing information in the CIM Browser...............88 Setting a property value for a CIM class instance ...........88 Executing a method for a CIM class instance.............88 Creating shortcuts to classes and methods .............89 Configure Alert Standard Format ..................89 DMI Browser..........................90 Starting the DMI Browser task ..................90 Viewing component information in the DMI Browser ..........90 Setting an attribute value for a DMI group ..............91 Creating a group-class shortcut ..................91 Event action plans .......................91 Event Log...........................92 Viewing and changing display options ...............92 Exporting events from the event log ................92 File Transfer ..........................93 Starting the File Transfer task ..................93 Transferring files between managed systems .............94 Synchronizing files, directories, or drives ..............95 Hardware Status ........................95 Inventory ...........................97 Viewing inventory data .....................98 Exporting inventory-query results to a file..............100 Viewing and editing the inventory-software dictionary .........100 Management Processor Assistant .................102 iv IBM Director 4.11: Systems Management Guide Starting the Management Processor Assistant task ..........103 Communications Configuration subtask ..............104 Management Processor Configuration subtask ............105 Server Management subtask ..................113 Microsoft Cluster Browser ....................115 Process Management ......................116 Viewing and working with processes, services, and device-services information ........................117 Creating and applying a process monitor ..............118 Removing process monitors...................119 Viewing process monitors ...................119 Creating and running process tasks ................119 Issuing a command on a managed system .............121 Restricting anonymous command execution .............121 Rack Manager ........................122 Starting the Rack Manager task .................122 Starting a component association ................123 Canceling a component association ................124 Creating and configuring a rack .................124 Adding components to an existing rack ..............124 Removing a rack component ..................125 Remote Control ........................125 Starting a remote-control session.................125 Changing remote-control states .................126 Changing the refresh rate ...................126 Recording a remote-control session ................126 Playing a recorded remote-control session .............127 Restricting remote-control usage .................127 Sending key combinations ...................127 Remote Session ........................128 Resource Monitors .......................128 Viewing available resource monitors ...............128 Setting a resource-monitor threshold ...............129 Viewing all resource-monitor thresholds ..............131 Recording a resource monitor ..................132 Viewing a graph of a resource-monitor recording ...........133 Exporting a resource-monitor recording ..............133 Monitoring the same resource on multiple groups or managed systems 134 Exporting and importing threshold tasks ..............134 Viewing resource-monitor data on the ticker tape ...........134 Scheduler ..........................135 ServeRAID Manager ......................135 Starting the ServeRAID Manager task ...............135 Viewing system or device information ...............136 Viewing ServeRAID alerts ...................136 Locating defunct disk drives...................136 SNMP devices ........................136 Setting discovery parameters ..................137 Creating a new SNMP device ..................137 Using the SNMP Browser ...................137 Software Distribution ......................139 Understanding software distribution ................139 Importing software and building software packages ..........140 Importing a previously created software package using Director File Package wizard (Premium Edition only) .............148 Distributing a software package .................149 Contents v Creating and editing software-package categories ..........150 Working with software packages .................151 Changing software-distribution server preferences ..........152 Viewing details about file-distribution servers and software packages . 152 Software Rejuvenation .....................153 Starting the Software Rejuvenation task ..............154 Configuring a service rejuvenation ................154 Scheduling a software rejuvenation ................155 Editing a rejuvenation schedule .................156 Deleting a rejuvenation schedule .................156 Creating a schedule filter....................157 Setting rejuvenation options for all managed systems .........157 Starting the Prediction Configuration