IBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation
that streamlines the way you manage physical and virtual systems supports
multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies in IBM
and non-IBM x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides
consistent views for viewing managed systems, determining how these
systems relate to one other, 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. The common tasks include
the following:
- Discovery
- Inventory
- Configuration
- System health
- Updates
- Event notification
- 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 source 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 settings 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 IBM Systems
Director Information Center at the IBM Systems Director information center, and the Systems Management website at the Lenovo Systems Management Solutions website, which presents an overview of IBM Systems Management
and IBM Systems Director.