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Front cover Implementing IBM Director 5.20 Describes how to plan and implement an IBM Director solution Includes many advanced scenarios of use Companion to IBM Director product publications David Watts Robert J Brenneman David Feisthammel Tim Sutherland ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization Implementing IBM Director 5.20 April 2007 SG24-6188-03 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page xv. Fourth Edition (April 2007) This edition applies to Version 5.20 of IBM Director. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Contents Notices . xv Trademarks . xvi Preface . xvii The team that wrote this book . xvii Become a published author . xx Comments welcome. xxi Chapter 1. Introduction. 1 1.1 Overview . 2 1.2 Other platforms . 2 1.3 IBM Systems Director . 3 1.4 Industry standards. 3 1.4.1 Common Information Model . 4 1.4.2 Intelligent Platform Management Interface . 4 1.4.3 Platform Event Trap . 5 1.4.4 Predictive Failure Analysis . 6 1.4.5 Service Location Protocol . 7 1.4.6 Simple Network Management Protocol. 7 1.4.7 System Management Bus . 7 1.4.8 Storage Management Initiative Specification . 8 1.4.9 System Management BIOS. 8 1.4.10 Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware. 9 1.5 IBM Director overview . 9 1.5.1 IBM Director components . 10 1.5.2 IBM Director Extensions . 14 1.6 IBM Director licensing . 20 1.6.1 Where to get the code. 21 1.6.2 Upgrades and maintenance . 22 1.6.3 Software support . 22 1.7 What is new in IBM Director 5.20 . 23 1.7.1 Installation improvements . 23 1.7.2 General enhancements. 24 1.7.3 Security enhancement . 26 1.7.4 Discontinued features in Version 5.20 . 26 1.8 IBM Director resources . 26 1.8.1 IBM Director publications . 27 1.8.2 IBM Service and support offerings . 28 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007. All rights reserved. iii 1.9 Features of IBM Director . 30 1.9.1 Capabilities . 30 1.9.2 Upward integration . 32 1.9.3 Grouping systems . 32 1.10 This book. 36 Chapter 2. Planning for IBM Director. 39 2.1 General considerations . 40 2.2 Planning the requirements . 44 2.2.1 Network considerations for IBM Director. 44 2.3 User accounts . 45 2.3.1 LDAP support . 46 2.3.2 Active Directory Global Groups. 47 2.4 Database considerations. 48 2.5 Express installation . 51 2.6 Choosing the right agent . 51 2.7 Agent installation . 52 2.8 Discovery. 55 2.8.1 Agent-initiated discovery . 55 2.8.2 Server-initiated discovery . 56 2.9 Network ports . 57 2.9.1 Ports used by Remote Supervisor Adapter II . 59 2.9.2 Ports used by the BMC . 60 2.9.3 Ports used by the Advanced Management Module . 61 2.9.4 Ports used by the Management Module . 62 2.10 Update Manager . 63 2.10.1 Comparing to Update Assistant . 63 2.10.2 UpdateXpress System Pack . 63 2.10.3 Update Manager considerations . 64 2.11 Software distribution . 64 2.12 Migration and upgrading . 66 2.12.1 Upgrading from earlier versions . 66 2.12.2 Migration from Insight Manager . 68 2.13 Redundancy . 69 2.13.1 High availability . 69 2.14 Performance recommendations . 71 2.15 Groups. 71 2.16 IBM Director Extensions . 72 2.16.1 Capacity Manager . 72 2.16.2 Electronic Service Agent . 73 2.16.3 PowerExecutive . 73 2.16.4 Remote Deployment Manager . 74 2.16.5 IBM Virtualization Manager . 75 iv Implementing IBM Director 5.20 2.16.6 IBM z/VM Center. 75 2.17 Scheduled tasks . 76 2.18 Changing your IBM Director infrastructure . 76 2.19 Alerting . 77 2.19.1 Planning for event action plans . 78 2.19.2 Event action plans for servers. 78 2.19.3 Event action plans for client systems . 91 Chapter 3. Security planning and implementation. 95 3.1 Security basics . ..