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IBM Director – Overview § Open, integrated suite of software tools § Provides a consistent, single point of management and automation § Includes tools to monitor the health of your systems and to automatically take action to minimize costly outages § Keep your systems up-to-date and running optimally § Intelligent tools that enable rapid, remote diagnosis and resolution 2 © 2006 IBM Corporation

Multiple Platform Support § Management Console ►x. Linux, Windows ►p. Linux, AIX ►i. Linux ►z. Linux § Management Server ►x. Linux, Windows ►p. Linux, AIX ►i. Linux, i 5/OS ►z. Linux § Managed Object ►Management agents ● x. Linux, Windows, Netware, VMware ● p. Linux, AIX ● i. Linux, i 5/OS ● z. Linux, ►Management processors ►Storage devices ►SNMP devices 3 © 2006 IBM Corporation

Multi-level Agents IBM Director Server 4 Level 0 Agent Level 1 Agent Level 2 Agent • No Agent Software • Inventory • Power Control • OOB H/W management • Stand-alone RAID management • Promotion to L 1 or L 2 Agent • H/W CIM instrumentation • Inventory • Power Control • In-band H/W alerting • Integrated RAID alerting • Promotion to L 2 Agent • Full IBM Director Agent • Inventory • Power Control • Resource monitoring • Process management • Capacity planning • In-band H/W management • Integrated RAID management © 2006 IBM Corporation

Comprehensive H/W Mgmt Maintain Remote Deployment Manager Deploy Hardware Status Configuration Manager Software Distribution Event Action Plans Inventory Resource Monitor Update Assistant RAID Management Scheduler Monitor & Alert Real Time Diagnostics Capacity Manager Dynamic System Analysis Analyze & Troubleshoot 5 © 2006 IBM Corporation Remote Control Optimize System Availability Virtual Machine Manager

IBM Director Management Tasks Electronic Virtual Service Machine Agent Manager Deploy • Blade. Center Manager • Server Configuration Manager 6 HMC Manager Maintain • Update Assistant • Scheduler © 2006 IBM Corporation Power RAID Executive Mgmt IBM Director Base Functionality Capacity Manager Software Distr. Premium Edition Analyze and Troubleshoot • Remote Control • File Transfer Remote Deployme nt Manager Monitor • HW Status • Inventory • Resource Monitor • Process Management

Management Console § Customizable user interface ►Toolbar icons can be added/removed ►Groups/Tasks panes can be hidden ►Associations per group § Allows logical groupings of systems using dynamic or static groups § Uses drag-and-drop, contextsensitive menus, or smart toolbar icons to launch tasks on individual systems, multiple systems, or entire groups of systems 7 © 2006 IBM Corporation

Upward Integration § Provided by IBM and ISVs § Integration points ►Discovery / Reclassification ►Launch ►Inventory ►Alerting ►Software Distribution Packages ►Help § Events sent from Level 1 and Level 2 Agents to upper level management applications § Events sent from IBM Director Server to Tivoli or SNMP management applications 8 © 2006 IBM Corporation

Virtual Machine Manager § Integration point for Virtual. Center § Adds new managed object types § Initiates Virtual Machine management tasks § Provides correlation between Virtual. Center, Virtual Farm, Physical Host, and Virtual Machines § Supports MS Virtual Server, VMware ESX, and VMware GSX § Supports Director Server on Windows only 9 © 2006 IBM Corporation

HMC Integration § HMC Discovery using Industry Standard SLP § Managed via CIM (SMWG Model) § Show relationships between HMC, p. Series / i. Series Server, LPARs, and installed operating system § Power management on all related managed platforms § Inventory of HMC § Hardware status and alerts integrated into main console § Launch in context to Web. SM task on HMC for more advanced tasks 10 © 2006 IBM Corporation

Capacity Management § Diagnoses performance problems, recommends fixes and forecasts future performance using built-in artificial intelligence § Displays server performance data graphically for easy-to-read analysis of system capacity § Reports can be saved in CMR, TXT, HTML, XML formats, or report data saved to SQL database § Ability to send Events based on bottleneck detection 11 © 2006 IBM Corporation