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IBM Director ExpressPlanning, Installation and Configuration Guide

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NoteBefore using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Appendix C,"Notices."

First Edition (December 2006)

This edition applies to version 5.20 of Software Distribution Premium Edition extension of IBM Director for i5/OS(program number 5722-DR1), IBM Director for AIX and Linux on POWER (program number 5765-DR1), IBMDirector for Linux on System z (program number 5648-DR1), and IBM Director on x86 (program number 5765-DIR)and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.

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Contents

About this book . . . . . . . . . . . vConventions and terminology . . . . . . . . v

Related information . . . . . . . . . . . . vHow to send your comments . . . . . . . . viii

New in version 5.20 . . . . . . . . . ix

Chapter 1. Getting started with IBMDirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Introducing IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . 1IBM Director components . . . . . . . . . . 2

IBM Director Core Services . . . . . . . . 3IBM Director Agent . . . . . . . . . . . 4IBM Director Console . . . . . . . . . . 4IBM Director Server . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2. Planning. . . . . . . . . . 7Specified operating environments . . . . . . . 7

Hardware requirements for IBM Director . . . . 7Network requirements. . . . . . . . . . 10Supported operating systems . . . . . . . 13Support of IBM Director tasks across operatingsystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17IBM Director task support for BladeCenterproducts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26IBM Director task support for Storage products 27Supported database applications . . . . . . 28

Licensing requirements for IBM Directorcomponents and extensions . . . . . . . . . 29

Planning to install IBM Director . . . . . . . 31Choosing where to install IBM Director Server . . 31Planning for events. . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Planning events to be monitored . . . . . . 33Planning for event action plan implementations 34

Chapter 3. Installing . . . . . . . . . 39Preparing to install IBM Director . . . . . . . 39

Preparing the management server . . . . . . 39Preparing a Level-1 managed system . . . . . 49Preparing to manage a BladeCenter . . . . . 50Preparing Windows XP managed systems . . . 53

Chapter 4. Installing IBM Director usingthe Express installation . . . . . . . 55Installing IBM Director Server using the Expressinstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing IBM Director Server on AIX using theExpress installation . . . . . . . . . . . 55Installing IBM Director Server on Windows usingthe Express InstallShield wizard . . . . . . 57Installing IBM Director Server on Linux onPOWER using the Express installation option . . 59Installing IBM Director Server on Linux forSystem x using the Express installation option . 61

Installing IBM Director Server on Linux forSystem z using the Express installation option . 63

Adding Standard installation options to an IBMDirector Express installation . . . . . . . . . 65

Chapter 5. Installing IBM DirectorConsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Installing IBM Director Console on AIX . . . . . 67Installing IBM Director Console on Linux forSystem x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Installing IBM Director Console on Linux forSystem z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Installing IBM Director Console on Linux forPOWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Installing IBM Director Console on Windows . . . 72

Installing IBM Director Console using the

InstallShield wizard . . . . . . . . . . 73Performing an unattended installation of IBMDirector Console on Windows . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 6. Installing Level 1: IBMDirector Core Services . . . . . . . . 77Installing Level 1: IBM Director Core Services onLinux for System x . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Installing Level 1: IBM Director Core Services onLinux for System z . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Installing Level 1: IBM Director Core Services onLinux for POWER . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Installing Level 1: IBM Director Core Services on

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Installing Level 1: IBM Director Core Services onWindows using the InstallShield wizard . . . . 81Performing an unattended installation of Level 1:IBM Director Core Services on Windows . . . 82

Installing IBM Director Core Services using theSoftware Distribution task . . . . . . . . . 83

Creating a software package . . . . . . . . 85Installing a software package . . . . . . . 86

Chapter 7. Installing Level 2: IBMDirector Agent . . . . . . . . . . . 89Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on AIX . . . 89Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on i5/OS . . 91

Installing IBM Director Agent using theVirtualization Engine . . . . . . . . . . 91Installing IBM Director Agent on i5/OS usingRSTLICPGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on Linux forSystem x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on Linux forSystem z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on Linux forPOWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on Linux forIntel Itanium (64 bit) . . . . . . . . . . . 97Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on NetWare 98Installing Level 2:IBM Director Agent on 32-bitWindows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on 32-bitWindows using the InstallShield wizard . . . . 99Performing an unattended installation of Level2: IBM Director Agent on 32-bit Windows . . . 102

Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on 64-bitWindows (Intel Itanium only) . . . . . . . . 103

Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent on 64-bitWindows (Intel Itanium only) using theInstallShield . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Performing an unattended installation of Level2: IBM Director Agent on 64-bit Windows (IntelItanium only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Installing IBM Director Agent using the SoftwareDistribution task . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Creating a software package . . . . . . . 108Installing a software package . . . . . . . 109

Chapter 8. Initially configuring IBMDirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Configuring IBM Director after an Expressinstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Adding new users in IBM Director . . . . . . 112Authorizing Request Access on a managed system 113Enabling Lightweight Directory Access Protocolauthentication for IBM Director users . . . . . 113Using IBM Director in a high-availabilityenvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Preparing a high-availability environment forIBM Director and IBM Tivoli SystemAutomation for Multiplatforms . . . . . . 115

Preparing a high-availability environment forIBM Director and SteelEyes LifeKeeper . . . 116Configuring IBM Director for a high-availabilityenvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Configuring discovery preferences . . . . . . 118Configuring discovery preferences forBladeCenter chassis . . . . . . . . . . 118Configuring discovery preferences for Level-0managed systems . . . . . . . . . . . 120Configuring discovery preferences for Level-1managed systems . . . . . . . . . . . 122Configuring discovery preferences for Level-2managed systems . . . . . . . . . . . 123Configuring discovery preferences for physical

platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Configuring discovery preferences for SMI-Sstorage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Configuring discovery preferences for SNMPdevices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Configuring discovery preferences for hardwaremanagement consoles . . . . . . . . . 133Configuring discovery preferences for z/VMsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Performing server-initiated discovery of managedobjects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Configuring software-distribution preferences . . 137

Setting up file-distribution servers . . . . . 137Configuring IBM Director to use afile-distribution server . . . . . . . . . 138Configuring software-distribution preferencesfor managed systems . . . . . . . . . . 139

Enabling SNMP access and trap forwarding forLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Enabling SNMP access and trap forwarding forLinux managed systems . . . . . . . . . 141Enabling SNMP access and trap forwarding forRed Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 and 4 . . 141Enabling SNMP access and trap forwarding forVMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Chapter 9. Uninstalling IBM Directoron Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Uninstalling IBM Director using the WindowsAdd/Remove Programs feature . . . . . . . 145Uninstalling IBM Director using the diruninscommand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Appendix A. Accessibility features forIBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Appendix B. Lightweight DirectoryAccess Protocol authenticationproperties for IBM Director Server . . 159

Appendix C. Notices . . . . . . . . 163Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

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About this book

This book provides information about installing and configuring IBM Directorusing the Express installation option. In addition to presenting an overview of IBM

Director and its requirements, it covers the following topics:v Planning an IBM Director environment

v Installing IBM Director and IBM Director extensions

v Upgrading from IBM Director 4.2 or earlier to IBM Director 5.20

v Configuring IBM Director

It also includes information about IBM Director security and solving problems youmight encounter with IBM Director.

Conventions and terminology

These notices are designed to highlight key information:

Note: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.

Important: These notices provide information or advice that might help you avoidinconvenient or difficult situations.

Attention: These notices indicate possible damage to programs, devices, or data.An attention notice appears before the instruction or situation in which damagecan occur.

Related information

Besides this documentation, there is additional information related to IBMDirector.

IBM Director resources on the World Wide Web

The following Web pages provide resources for understanding, using, andtroubleshooting IBM Director and other system-management tools.

IBM Director information centerpublib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo_5.20/fqm0_main.html

This information center is updated periodically. It contains the mostcurrent documentation on a wide range of topics.

IBM Director extension information centers

These information centers are updated periodically. They contain the mostcurrent documentation on a wide range of topics.v Capacity Manager:

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/capman_5.20/fqn0_main.html

v External Application Launch Wizard:

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/ealwiz_5.20/frj0_main.html

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v Hardware Management Console (HMC):

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/hmc_5.20/frk0_main.html

v ServeRAID Manager:

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/serveraid_5.20/fqy0_main.html

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Software Distribution Premium Edition:publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/swdistpe_5.20/frl0_main.html

v System Availability:

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/sysavail_5.20/fqq0_main.html

v z/VM Center:

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/zvmcenter_5.20/zvm0_main.html

IBM Director Web site on ibm.com

www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/

The IBM Director Web site on ibm.com has links to downloads anddocumentation for all currently supported versions of IBM Director.Information on this site includes:

v Downloads and documentation for the following IBM Director releases:

IBM Director 5.20

IBM Director 5.10 Update 3 (5.10.3)



IBM Director 5.10

IBM Director 4.22

IBM Director 4.22 Upward Integration Modules (UIMs)

IBM Director 4.21 IBM Director 4.20

v IBM Director Hardware and Software Support Guide document, which listssupported IBM systems and all supported operating systems. It isupdated every 6 to 8 weeks.

v Printable documentation for IBM Director is available in PortableDocument Format (PDF) in several languages.

IBM Director Software Developers Kit information centerpublib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dirinfo/toolkit/index.jsp

The IBM Director Software Developers Kit (SDK) information centerprovides information about the IBM Director SDK, which is a set of tools

and documentation to help extend the capabilities of IBM Director byusing the APIs and CLIs, creating tasks, and launching tools from the IBMDirector user interface.

IBM Systems Software information centerwww.ibm.com/servers/library/infocenter/

This Web page provides information about IBM Director, ExternalApplication Launch Wizard, IBM Virtualization Manager, and other topics.

IBM ServerProven pagewww.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/

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This Web page provides information about the hardware compatibility ofIBM System x, BladeCenter, and IntelliStation with IBM Director.

IBM Serverswww.ibm.com/servers/

This Web page on ibm.com links to information, downloads, and IBMDirector extensions, such as Remote Deployment Manager, Capacity

Manager, Systems Availability and Software Distribution (PremiumEdition), for the following IBM products:v IBM BladeCenterv IBM System i

v IBM System p

v IBM System xv IBM System z

IBM forumswww.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_esforums.jsp

This Web page on ibm.com links to several forums, available as Web pagesor using Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, in which users can discusstechnology issues relating to IBM servers.

Three of these forums are of particular interest to IBM Director users:

System x IBM Director forumwww.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=759&cat=53

A forum for discussing any IBM Director topics. This Web pageincludes a link for obtaining the forum using a Rich Site Summary(RSS) feed.

System x Server forumwww.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=740&cat=53

A forum for discussing System x server topics, including questionsrelated to drivers, firmware, operating systems, clustering, andstorage. This Web page includes a link for obtaining the forumusing a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed.

IBM Director SDK forumwww.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=849&cat=53

A forum for discussing the use of the IBM Director SoftwareDevelopers Kit (SDK) to extend the functionality of IBM Director tomeet your specific needs. This Web page includes a link forobtaining the forum using a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed.

IBM Redbooks publications

www.ibm.com/redbooks/

You can download the following documents from the IBM Redbooks Web page.You can also search this Web page for documents that focus on specific IBMhardware; such documents often contain systems-management material.

Notes:

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1. Be sure to note the date of publication and to determine the level ofIBM Director software to which the Redbooks publication refers.

2. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print these PDF files. Youcan download a copy from the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html .

v Creating a Report of the Tables in the IBM Director 4.1 Database (TIPS0185)

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Implementing IBM Director 5.10 (SG24-6188)v Integrating IBM Director with EnterpriseManagement Solutions (SG24-5388)

v Managing IBM TotalStorage NAS with IBM Director (SG24-6830)

v Monitoring Redundant Uninterruptible Power Supplies Using IBM Director(REDP-3827)

v Using the IBM Director cimsubscribe Utility (REDP-4123-00)

v Virtualization on the IBM System x3950 Server (SG24-7190-00)

v iSeries SystemsManagementHandbook (REDP-4070)

v IBM Director on System p5 (REDP-4219)

Remote Supervisor Adapter

The following Web pages provide resources for understanding and using RemoteSupervisor Adapters with IBM Director:

Remote Supervisor Adapter overviewwww.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UKSML

This Web page contains links to the Remote SupervisorAdapter Users Guideand the Remote SupervisorAdapter Installation Guide.

Remote Supervisor Adapter II overviewwww.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50116

This Web page contains information about the Remote Supervisor AdapterII.

Other documents

For planning purposes, the Planning and Installation Guide - IBM BladeCenter (Type8677) might be of interest.

How to send your comments

Your feedback is important in helping to provide the most accurate and highestquality information.

If you have any comments about this book or any other IBM Director publication,

v

Go to the IBM Director information center Web site at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo_5.20/fqm0_main.html . There you willfind the feedback page where you can enter and submit comments.

v Complete one of the forms at the back of any IBM Director book and return itby mail, by fax, or by giving it to an IBM representative.

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New in version 5.20

IBM Director 5.20 provides a number of new features and enhancements. There areadditional supported systems for installation and management. In addition, some

functions have changed in this version and some features have been discontinued.

Improvements to the installation procedure for IBM Director

Express installationIBM Director Express is a simplified installation that installs IBM Directorusing default values for a number of installation options, and filtering thetask list to start with a core set of essential tasks. Users also can add othertasks after installation.

Installation checking for required driversOn System x servers, the installation program for IBM Director Agentautomatically checks for required drivers needed for system managementand informs the user if drivers are missing.

i5/OS On systems running i5/OS, IBM Director components can be installedseparately from Virtualization Engine productsby using the RSTLICPGM.

Collection Services installed on AIX, Linux on POWER, and i5/OS

Collection Services is an i5/OS application that collects interval data at thesystem and job levels of systems in your environment. The framework thatis used to collect this data is automatically installed when you install IBMDirector on AIX, Linux on POWER, or i5/OS. When installed with IBMDirector, Collection Services provides a cross-partition view of processoruser. For information about using Collection Services, go tohttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzahx/rzahxcollectdatapart.htm.

Improvements to the way you workin IBM Director

Update managementThe Update Manager task provides integrated management of updates formanaged systems, including new tasks for creating profiles, downloadingupdates, comparing updates defined in profiles against systems, andgenerating reports.

Enhancements to the upward integration module for Tivoli ManagementFramework

In IBM Director version 5.20, the Software Distribution feature canbe usedto distribute software and perform an unattended installation of thesepackages on any Tivoli endpoint that is running Linux or Microsoft

Windows.

User administration improvementsIBM Director 5.20 includes the following changes affecting useradministration:

v User accounts can be defined on an Lightweight Directory AccessProtocol (LDAP) server, which you can use to centralize useradministration for multiple management servers.

v Global or domain-local user groups can be hierarchical, with user groupsincluding other user groups.

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v User authorization for tasks is more precise, with separate authorizationfor parent and child tasks.

v Several new dircli commands support command-line implementation ofuser and group authorization tasks.

Inventory improvementsIBM Director 5.20 adds a new dircli command to list inventory, and

expands the capabilities of the dircli mkgp command, which you can useto create dynamic groups from the command line.

In addition, inventory collection now collects firmware information formore devices, including hard disk drives, Small Computer System Interface(SCSI) tape drives, network interface controller (NIC) adapters, and RemoteSupervisor Adapter (RSA) video BIOS for many Level-0, Level-1, andLevel-2 managed systems.

For AIX systems, IBM Director 5.20 provides added inventory support foradapters (FC and RAID), devices (IDE, PCI and SCSI), memory modules,and disk storage (ISCSI, RAID, SSA, FC, virtual disks).

Monitoring of management processor logs

IBM Director 5.20 provides support for monitoring and viewing systemevent logs of Baseboard Management Controllers and Remote SupervisorAdapters on Level-1 managed systems. The log entries are viewed asCommon Information Model (CIM) events, and the logs can be clearedautomatically when they reach a threshold value.

Monitoring of i5/OS message queuesIBM Director 5.20 provides support for monitoring i5/OS message queuesfor specific message IDs without requiring that the message first bedisplayed on the IBM Director Console. With IBM Director version 5.20, amessage ID can be monitored by entering the message ID into the EventText field of a Simple Event Filter for the applicable message queue.

Support for high availability environments

When IBM Director 5.20 is run in conjunction with a high-availabilitysystem, such as IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms orSteelEyes LifeKeeper, it can be run in a high availability configurationwith which IBM Director Server operations can be performed by aredundant IBM Director Server instance in the event of a failure on amanagement server.

IBM Virtualization Manager extensionWith the IBM Virtualization Manager extension, IBM Director 5.20 providesa single point of management for both physical and virtual systems in aconsistent way across different virtualization technologies. This supportincludes a Web-based user interface; a dashboard health summary; and agraphical topology with which you can visualize and navigate

relationships between virtual and physical resources, and performsimplified virtualization tasks such as creating, deleting, modifying, andrelocating virtual servers.

Security enhancement

IBM Director version 5.20 improves security for some managed systems throughIntelligent Platform Management (IPMI) 2.0 support. IBM Director version 5.20includes support for IPMI 2.0 communication using Enhanced RemoteManagement Control Protocol (RMCP+) on the following managed systems:

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v IBM System x3655

v IBM System x3755

v IBM System x3200

v IBM System x3250

IBM Director Agent support for new hardware

IBM Director Agent version 5.20 can be installed on the following new IBMsystems and products.

IntelliStationM Pro, machine type 9229

IBM System x3nnn serversv x3105, machine types 4347 and 4348 (Environmental-sensor monitoring

and hardware events are not supported.)v x3200, machine types 4362 and 4363v x3250, machine types 4364 and 4365v x3455, machine types 7984 and 7986v x3655, machine type 7985

v x3755, machine type 8877

Discontinued features in version 5.20

Alert Standard FormatSupport for Alert Standard Format is not continued in version 5.20. WhenIBM Director Agent is updated to version 5.20, this function will beremoved. You can continue to use existing version 5.10 installations of IBMDirector Agent if this function is needed.

Web-based AccessSupport for Web-based Access is not continued in version 5.20. When IBMDirector Agent is updated to version 5.20, this function will be removed.You can continue to use existing version 5.10 installations of IBM DirectorAgent if this function is needed.

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Chapter 1. Getting started with IBM Director

This topic contains general and conceptual information about IBM Director.

Introducing IBM Director

This topic provides an overview of IBM Director.

IBM Director is an integrated suite of tools that provide you with comprehensivesystem-management capabilities to maximize system availability and lower ITcosts. Its open, industry-standard design supports the management of a variety ofhardware and operating systems, including most Intel microprocessor-basedsystems and certain IBM System i, System p, System x, and System z servers.

IBM Director automates many of the processes that are required to managesystems proactively, including capacity planning, asset tracking, preventive

maintenance, diagnostic monitoring, troubleshooting, and more. It has a graphicaluser interface that provides easy access to both local and remote systems.

IBM Director can be used in environments with multiple operating systems andintegrated with robust workgroup and enterprise management software from IBM(such as Tivoli software), Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NetIQ,and BMC Software.

IBM Director environment

IBM Director is designed to manage a complex environment that containsnumerous servers, desktop computers, workstations, mobile computers (notebookcomputers), and assorted devices. IBM Director can manage up to 5000 Level-2

systems.

An IBM Director environment contains the following groups of hardware:

v One or more servers on which IBM Director Server is installed. Such servers arecalled management servers.

v Servers, workstations, desktop computers, and mobile computers that aremanaged by IBM Director. Such systems are called managed systems.

v Network devices, printers, or computers that have Simple Network ManagementProtocol (SNMP) agents installed or embedded. Such devices are called SNMPdevices.

v Additional managed objects such as platforms and chassis. Collectively, allmanaged systems, devices, and objects are referred to as managed objects.

Figure 1 on page 2 shows the hardware in an IBM Director environment.

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IBM Director components

This topic provides information about the IBM Director components.

The IBM Director software has four components:

v IBM Director Core Services

v IBM Director Agent

v IBM Director Console

v IBM Director Server

IBM Director may also manage some systems on which no component of IBMDirector is installed. Such managed systems are referred to as Level-0 managedsystems. These systems must at a minimum support either the Secure Shell (SSH)or Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) protocol.

Note: When you install IBM Director Server on Microsoft Windows or Linux, IBMDirector Agent and IBM Director Console are installed automatically also.When you install IBM Director Server on IBM i5/OS, IBM Director Agent isinstalled automatically also.

Figure 2 on page 3 shows where the IBM Director software components areinstalled in a basic IBM Director environment.

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IBM Director Core ServicesIBM Director Core Services is installed on a managed system to providehardware-specific (Level-1) functionality for IBM Director to communicate withand administer the managed system.

IBM Director Core Services provides a subset of IBM Director Agent functionalitythat is used to communicate with and administer the managed system. Systems

(IBM servers, desktop computers, workstations, and mobile computers) that haveIBM Director Core Services (but not IBM Director Agent) installed on them arereferred to as Level-1 managed systems.

IBM Director Core Services provides management entirely through standardprotocols. This includes discovery, authentication, and management. The IBMDirector Core Services package installs an SLP service agent, an SSL-enabledCIMOM (on Linux) or CIM mapping libraries to WMI (on Windows), an optionalssh server, and platform-specific instrumentation.

You can perform the following tasks on a Level-1 managed system:

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v Collect inventory.

v Promote to Level-2 management by distributing the IBM Director Agentpackage.

v Manage events using event action plans, event subscription, and the event log.

v Monitor hardware status.

v Reboot or shut down the managed system.

v Run command-line programs.

v Distribute system update packages through Software Distribution

v Remote Session (requires ssh)

IBM Director AgentIBM Director Agent is installed on a managed system to provide enhanced (Level2) functionality with which IBM Director can communicate with and administerthe managed system.

IBM Director Agent provides management data to IBM Director Server. Data canbe transferred using several network protocols, including Transmission Control

Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Network Basic Input/Output System(NetBIOS), and Internetwork Package Exchange (IPX). IBM Director Server cancommunicate with all systems in your network that have IBM Director Agentinstalled.

IBM Director Agent features vary according to the operating system on which IBMDirector Agent is installed. For example, you can install Microsoft Cluster Browseronly on Windows 32-bit operating systems.

All IBM Intel-compatible servers, IBM BladeCenterJS20 and JS21blade servers,NetVista desktop computers, ThinkCentre desktop computers,IBM PC desktopcomputers, IBM IntelliStation workstations, IBM ThinkPad mobile computers, IBMSystem Storage Network Attached Storage (NAS) products, and IBM SurePOS

point-of-sale systems include a license for IBM Director Agent. You can purchaseadditional licenses for non-IBM systems.

IBM Director Agent is supported on systems that are running the followingoperating systems:

v Microsoft Windows

v Linux (System x, POWER, System z)

v IBM AIX

v IBM i5/OS

v Novell NetWare

Systems (IBM or non-IBM servers, desktop computers, workstations, and mobile

computers) that have IBM Director Agent installed on them are referred to asLevel-2 managed systems.

The function of IBM Director Agent on the managed system will vary dependingon the operating system and platform.

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IBM Director Console is the GUI for IBM Director Server. Data is transferredbetween IBM Director Console and IBM Director Server through TCP/IP. UsingIBM Director Console, you can conduct comprehensive systems management usingeither a drop-and-drag action or a single click.

You may install IBM Director Console on as many systems as needed. IBMDirector includes an unlimited-use license for IBM Director Console. The system

on which IBM Director Console is installed is referred to as a management console.

Note: When you install IBM Director Console on a system, IBM Director Agent isnot installed automatically. To provide full management of the managementconsole through IBM Director, IBM Director Agent should alsobe installed.

IBM Director ServerIBM Director Server must be installed on the management server, and provides allthe management function of IBM Director.

IBM Director Server is the main component of IBM Director; it contains themanagement data, the server engine, and the application logic. IBM Director Server

provides basic functions such as discovery of managed objects, persistent storageof configuration and management data, an inventory database, event listening,security and authentication, management console support, and administrativetasks.

IBM Director Server stores the inventory data in a Structured Query Language(SQL) database. You can access information that is stored in this relational databaseeven when the managed objects are not available.

Every IBM System x server and IBM BladeCenter unit includes an IBM DirectorServer license. You can purchase additional IBM Director Server licenses forinstallation on non-IBM servers.

IBM Director Server communicates with managed objects and SNMP devices toreceive information and issue commands. If IBM Director Console is used, IBMDirector Server communicates with IBM Director Console to display network statusinformation and receive instructions from the system administrator.

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Chapter 2. Planning

Before installing or updating IBM Director, review the installation requirementsand plan your installation.

Specified operating environments

IBM Director has specific requirements for hardware and networks. IBM Directorprovides support for a wide range of hardware products, operating systems, anddatabase applications.

Hardware requirements for IBM DirectorTo successfully install IBM Director, the system on which you install IBM Directorcomponents must meet certain minimum hardware requirements, depending onthe components to be installed and the type of system on which they will beinstalled.

Because a system configured with the minimum requirements might performpoorly in a production environment, consider the following suggestions:

v Be sure that your system can accommodate the hardware requirements, keepingin mind that the microprocessor speed, memory, and disk-space minimumrequirements are additional to the resources are necessary for the softwarealready installed on the system.

v Conduct a performance analysis to ensure that the system has sufficient capacityto handle the additional requirements of functioning as a management server ora management console.

Hardware requirements for x86-compatible systems

IBM Director components have minimum microprocessor speed, random accessmemory (RAM), and disk space requirements on x86-compatible systems,including System i platforms, IntelliStation workstations, NetVista desktopcomputers, IBM ThinkCentre desktop computers, ThinkPad mobile computers, IBMSystem Storage Network Attached Storage (NAS) products, and IBM SurePOSpoint-of-sale systems.

When reviewing the hardware requirements, consider the following information:

v The disk space listed is the minimum requirement for an installation using thedefault selections.

v Requirements listed for IBM Director Server do not include the databaseprogram hardware requirements or the increased persistent storage for managedobjects.

v The systems on which you install IBM Director Agent or IBM Director Servermust meet the Wired for Management (WfM), version 2.0, specifications.

v System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) 2.1 or later is required for all systems in anIBM Director environment.

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Table1. x86-compatiblesystems: Minimumhardware requirements

RequirementsIBM Director CoreServices IBM Director Agent IBM Director Console IBM Director Server

Microprocessorspeed

Pentium-classprocessor

Pentium-class orItanium 2 processor

Pentium 1.5 GHz Pentium 1.5 GHz

Memory (RAM) 128 MB 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB (minimum)

1024 MB(recommended)

Disk space 40 MB (for Windows)

100 MB (for Linux)

110 MB (for Windows)

165 MB (for Linux)

170 MB 325 MB

Display Not applicable Not applicable At least 256 colors At least 256 colors

Hardware requirements for servers running AIXIBM Director components have minimum microprocessor speed, random accessmemory (RAM), and disk space requirements on servers running AIX, includingSystem i and System p servers, and JS20 and JS21blade servers.




v On systems that do not provide display capability, such as JS20 and JS21bladeservers, you must export IBM Director Console using either the xhost commandor SSH tunneling. The IBM Director Console requirements apply to the receivingsystem.

Table2. ServersrunningAIX: Minimumhardware requirements

Requirements IBM Director Agent IBM Director Console IBM Director Server

Microprocessor speed Power4 or Power5 1.5 GHz Power4 or Power5 1.5 GHz Power4 or Power5 1.5 GHz

Memory (RAM) 512 MB (minimum) 512 MB (minimum) 512 MB (minimum)

1024 MB (recommended)

Disk space 90 MB (/opt)

3 MB (/usr)

185 MB (/opt) (Includes thedisk space required for IBMDirector Agent.)

6 MB (/usr)

325 MB (/opt)

8 MB (/usr)

Display Not applicable At least 256 colors At least 256 colors

Hardware requirements for servers running Linux on POWERIBM Director components have minimum microprocessor speed, random accessmemory (RAM), and disk space requirements on servers running Linux onPOWER, including System i and System p servers, and JS20 and JS21bladeservers.





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v On systems that do not provide display capability, such as JS20 and JS21bladeservers, you must export IBM Director Console using either the xhost commandor SSH. The IBM Director Console requirements apply to the receiving system.

Table3. ServersrunningLinuxonPOWER: Minimumhardware requirements

RequirementsIBM Director CoreServices IBM Director Agent IBM Director Console IBM Director Server

Microprocessorspeed

Power4 or Power5 1.5GHz




Memory (RAM) 128 MB (minimum) 512 MB (minimum) 512 MB (minimum) 512 MB (minimum)

1024 MB(recommended)

Disk space 100 MB 170 MB 225 MB 425 MB

Display Not applicable Not applicable At least 256 colors At least 256 colors

Hardware requirements for System i productsIBM Director components have minimum commercial processing workload (CPW),storage pool size, and disk space requirements when installed on System iproducts.



v Requirements listed for IBM Director Server do not include the databaseprogram hardware requirements or the increased persistent storage for managedobjects. As the number of managed objects in your IBM Director environment

increases, make sure you increase disk space and storage pool size on the systemrunning IBM Director Server.

v Resource Monitors, tasks, event action plans, and managed endpoints increasethe resources required by IBM Director Server.

Table4. System i products: Minimumhardware requirements

Requirements IBM Director Agent IBM Director Server

Relative system performance 75 CPW 150 CPW

Storage pool size 350 MB 500 MB

Disk space 300 MB 500 MB

Note: IBM Director Server is a Java application. Java applications that are run onheavily loaded systems might require a separate storage pool. Sections 4.3.2and 4.3.3 of the Java and WebSphere Performance on IBM iSeries Servers(SG24-6256) Redbook provide information about how to create a separatememory pool.

Hardware requirements for IBM System z serversIBM Director components have minimum microprocessor speed, random accessmemory (RAM), and disk space requirements.

The following System z servers are supported:

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v IBM System z9 (all models)

v IBM zSeries (all models)

v IBM S/390 (Multiprise 3, Generation 5 and Generation 6)

Table5. Minimumhardware requirements for IBMDirectoronSystem z servers

Requirement

IBM Director Server(with or without

CIM instrumentationfor z/VMmanageability accesspoint)

IBM DirectorConsole IBM Director Agent

IBM Director Agent

with CIMinstrumentation forz/VM manageabilityaccess point

Processor speed All processor speeds provided by IBM System z servers are sufficient for IBM Director.

Memory 1 GB 256 MB 256 MB 512 MB

Disk space 316 MB 168 MB 43-109 MB 215 MB

Display Not applicable At least 256 colors Not applicable Not applicable

The additional resources you require for the systems you want to provision with

z/VM Center depend on the number and nature of the provisioned systems. Therequirements of the provisioned systems, including networking requirements, arethe same as if you were to set them up without z/VM Center. Refer to the z/VMPlanning information for further details.

Network requirementsIBM Director requires certain ports to be available and certain network protocols to

be installed in order to enable communication among IBM Director componentsand between the management server and managed objects. In addition, networkconnectivity must exist between the management server and managed objects, and

between the management server and the management console.

Network protocols

This topic lists the network protocols that can be used in an IBM Directorenvironment.

The following table lists the versions of network protocols that can be used in anIBM Director environment.

Table6. Supportedversions of networkprotocols

Protocol Supported version

IPX IPX versions supported by NetWare and Windows

NetBIOS Native NetBIOS versions supported by Windows

TCP/IP All WinSock-compatible versions of TCP/IP version 4.0 supportedby AIX, i5/OS, Linux, NetWare, and Windows

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Table7. Typesof datatransmissionand supportednetworkprotocols

Type of data transmissionOperating systemrunning on managedsystem

Supportednetworkprotocols

IBM Director Server IBM Director Console Not applicable TCP/IP

IBM Director Server SNMP devices Not applicable TCP/IP

IBM Director Server IBM Director Agent AIX TCP/IP

IBM Director Server IBM Director Agent i5/OS TCP/IP

IBM Director Server IBM Director Agent Linux TCP/IP

IBM Director Server IBM Director Agent NetWare IPX or TCP/IP

IBM Director Server IBM Director Agent Windows IPX, NetBIOS, orTCP/IP

Ports used by IBM DirectorIBM Director processes require access to a number of ports in the installationenvironment. If these ports are blocked by a firewall or used by another process,

some IBM Director functions might not work.

Table 8 lists the ports used by the various IBM Director processes.

v Abbreviations used in Table 8 are spelled out below the table.

v In the Connection column, the symbols and are used. Where is used, thecomponent to the left of the arrow is the initiator of the communication and thecomponent to the right of the arrow is the listener or receiver of thecommunication. For example, if the entry in the Connection column is IBMDirector Console IBM Director Server, then IBM Director Console is theinitiator and IBM Director Server is the listener. Where is used, eithercomponent can function as the initiator or the listener.

v For the TCP ports listed, the initiator opens a random port in the 1024-65535

range and then connects to the listener on the port listed in the Destination portcolumn. The listener responds by connecting to the original random port openedby the initiator.

Table8. Portsused by IBMDirector

Category Connection Destination port

IBM Directorinterprocesscommunication

IBM Director Server IBM Director Agent 14247 UDP and TCP1 on

page 13; 14248 TCP; 4490 IPX(read);

4491 IPX (write)

IBM DirectorConsole

IBM Director Server 2033 TCP

DIRCLI client IBM Director Server 2044 TCP

DIRCMD client IBM Director Server 2034 TCPIBM Director

Console IBM Director

ConsoleAny free port (for use ofBladeCenter NetworkDevice Manager)

IBM DirectorConsole

IBM Director Serverover SSL

4066 TCP

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Table8. Portsused by IBMDirector (continued)


CIM-XML overHTTP2 on page 13,3

on page 13

IBM Director Server Level-1 or Level-2managed system, orSMI-S storagedevice

15988 TCP (SUSE Linuxdistributions and RedHat Linux for System zdistributions)

5988 TCP (otheroperating systems)

CIM-XML overHTTPS2 on page 13,3

on page 13

IBM Director Server Level-1 or Level-2managed system, orSMI-S storagedevice

15989 TCP (SUSE Linuxdistributions and RedHat Linux for System zdistributions)

5989 TCP (otheroperating systems)

CIM Listener2 on

page 13,3 on page 13

CIMOM CIM Listener 6988 TCP (HTTP)

HTTP IBM Director Server BladeCenter switchmodule

80 TCP

MicrosoftWindowsDCOM

IBM Director Server Level-0 system 137 UDP; 138 UDP; 139TCP; 445 TCP

ServeRAIDinterprocesscommunication

ServeRAID CIMProvider

ServeRAID Manager 34572 TCP

Serviceprocessors

IBM Director Server service processor 6090 TCP

Service processor IBM Director Server(alerts)

13991 UDP

IBM Director Server service processor(ASF, ASF 2.0, and

IPMI)

623 and 664 UDP

Service processor IBM Director Server(ASF, ASF 2.0, andIPMI)

Random port in the1024-65535 range4 on pa ge 13

SLP IBM Director Server SLP service agentsor SLP directoryagents

427 TCP and UDP

SNMP IBM Director Server SNMP agent 161 TCP and UDP1 on page

13

SNMP agent IBM Director Server 162 TCP and UDP1 on page

13

SSH IBM Director Server SNMP devices

(Remote Sessiontask)

22 TCP

IBM Director Server Level-0 system 22 TCP



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Table8. Portsused by IBMDirector (continued)


Telnet IBM Director Server BladeCentermanagementmodule

23 TCP

IBM Director Server BladeCenter switch

module

23 TCP

IBM Director Server SNMP devices(Remote Sessiontask)

23 TCP

Abbreviations used in Table 8 on page 11v ASF = Alert Standard Formatv HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Protocolv HTTPS = Hypertext Transfer Protocol Securev IPMI= Intelligent Platform Management Interfacev SLP = Service Location Protocolv SNMP = Simple Network Management Protocolv

SSH = Secure Shellv SSL = Secure Sockets Layerv TCP = Transmission Control Protocolv UDP = User Datagram Protocol

Notes:

1. (Windows XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2 only) You mustenable these ports for IBM Director to function correctly.

2. Ports 5988, 15988, 5989, 15989, and 6988 must be open in order to installIBM Director. In addition, the HTTP port must be turned on for thePegasus CIMOM, regardless of whether or not HTTPS is turned on (SSLis enabled) for any CIM-related function of the Level-2 agent to work.

3. If the CIMOM ports for a Level-1 managed system are changed afterIBM Director Server discovers the system, the system will change to aLevel-0 managed system in IBM Director. To correct this, you mustcomplete the following steps:a. Delete the managed system in IBM Director.b. Shut down and restart the managed system.c. Discover or add the managed system in IBM Director.

4. You can specify a fixed port by modifying the asmDefinitions.propertiesfile, which is in the data directory.

Supported operating systemsThis section lists the operating systems on which IBM Director Server, IBM

Director Console, IBM Director Agent, and IBM Director Core Services aresupported. This support can vary by version, release, and update. Make sure youreview the supported operating systems for the version of IBM Director in yourenvironment.

For the most recent list of supported operating systems, see IBM Director Hardwareand Software Support Guide. You can download it from www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/ .

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Operating systems supported by IBM Director 5.20IBM Director 5.20 provides support for many operating systems. However, supportvaries depending on the selected hardware and IBM Director component.

This release of IBM Director Agent and IBM Director Core Services can bedownloaded from the Web or are available on the following CDs:

v IBM Director on x86, V5.20

v IBM Director Agents & Consoles, V5.20 (1 of 2)

v IBM Director Agents & Consoles, V5.20 (2 of 2)

v IBM Director for AIX 5L, V5.20

v IBM Director for i5/OS, V5.20

v IBM Director for Linux on POWER, V5.20

v IBM Director for Linux on System z, V5.20

See the installation instructions for each operating-system environment forinformation about the applicable CD or the file that can be downloaded from theWeb.

When preparing to install IBM Director, consider the following information:v Unless stated otherwise, IBM Director provides Level-0 support for all operating

systems.

v If you are installing IBM Director Console on the same system as IBM DirectorServer, see the operating systems supported by IBM Director Server.

v IBM Director Server and IBM Director Console can be installed on non-IBMhardware as long as the system meets the hardware requirements for runningthat component.

v IBM Director support for Intel Itanium systems is provided by IBM DirectorAgent version 5.10.3. There is no IBM Director Agent version 5.20 for IntelItanium systems. IBM Director Agent for Intel Itanium systems is available as aWeb-download only. Download the dir5.10.3_agent_windows64.zip or

dir5.10.3_agent_linux64.zip file, as needed, from the IBM Director Web site atwww.ibm.com/systems/management/director/downloads.html.

Table9. Operatingsystemssupportedby IBMDirectoronSystem x systemsand third-party Intel-basedsystems

Operating system

IBMDirectorConsole

IBMDirectorServer

IBMDirectorAgent

IBMDirectorCoreServices

Editions of Windows for 32-bit systems:

Windows 2000, Advanced Server and Server Editions (Service Pack 3required)

X X X X

Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition X X

Windows 2000 Professional Edition (Service Pack 3 required) X X X

Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition (supports Service Pack 1 ) X X

Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Standard, and Web Editions (supportsService Pack 1 and Release 2)

X X X X

Windows XP Professional Edition (supports Service Pack 2 and earlier) X X X


Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition for Itanium systems

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Table9. Operatingsystemssupportedby IBMDirectoronSystem x systemsand third-party Intel-based

systems (continued)

Operating system

IBMDirectorConsole

IBMDirectorServer

IBMDirectorAgent


Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition (supports Release 2 andearlier)

X X

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for Itanium systems

Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Standard, and Web x64 Editions(supports Release 2 and earlier)

X X X X

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (supports Release 2 and earlier) X X

Versions of Linux for 32-bit systems:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 3.0 (supports Update 7 andearlier)Note: (Level-2 and Level-1 support only) For systems that contain anAMD Opteron or Athlon64 processor, Update 5 or later is required.

X X X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 3.0 (supports Update 7 and earlier)Note: (Level-2 and Level-1 support only) For systems that contain anAMD Opteron or Athlon64 processor, Update 5 or later is required.

X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 4.0 (supports Update 3 andearlier)

X X X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 4.0 (supports Update 3 and earlier) X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86 (supports Service Pack 3 andearlier)

X X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86 X X X X

VMware ESX Server, versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, and 3.0, Console X X

VMware ESX Server, versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, and 3.0, guestoperating systems

Note: Supported guest operating systems are those that are supported byboth IBM Director and the specified version of VMware. See the VMwareproduct documentation for a list of supported operating systems.

X X X X

VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, guest operating systemsNote: Supported guest operating systems are those that are supported by

both IBM Director and the specified version of VMware. See the VMwareproduct documentation for a list of supported operating systems.

X X

VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, host operating systemsNote: Supported host operating systems are those that are supported by

both IBM Director and the specified version of VMware. See the VMwareproduct documentation for a list of supported operating systems.

X X


Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 3.0, for Intel Itanium

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 3.0, for AMD64 and EM64T(supports Update 7 and earlier)

X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 3.0, for AMD64 and EM64T(supports Update 7 and earlier)

X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for Intel Itanium

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 4.0, for AMD64 and EM64T(supports Update 3 and earlier)

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Table9. Operatingsystemssupportedby IBMDirectoronSystem x systemsand third-party Intel-based

systems (continued)

Operating system

IBMDirectorConsole

IBMDirectorServer

IBMDirectorAgent


Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 4.0, for AMD64 and EM64T(supports Update 3 and earlier)

X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 and EM64T (supports ServicePack 3 and earlier)

X X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Itanium Processor Family

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 and EM64T X X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen Kernel X X X X

Other operating systems supported by System x servers:

Microsoft Virtual Server (guest operating system) (Release 2 required)Note: Supported guest operating systems are those that are supported by

both IBM Director and the specified version of Microsoft. See theMicrosoft product documentation for a list of supported operatingsystems.

X X

NetWare, version 6.5Note: Level-0 support is not provided.

X

Table10. Operatingsystemssupportedby IBMDirectoronSystem i andSystem p products

Operating system

IBMDirectorConsole

IBMDirectorServer

IBMDirectorAgent


AIX 5L, Version 5.2 (supports ML05 or later)Note: Level-0 support includes only Discovery, Remote Session and alimited subset of the Software Distribution task.

X

AIX 5L, Version 5.3 (supports ML03 or later)Note: Level-0 support includes only Discovery, Remote Session and alimited subset of the Software Distribution task.

X X X

i5/OS, Version 5 Release 3i5/OS, Version 5 Release 4Note: Level-0 support includes only Discovery, Remote Session and alimited subset of the Software Distribution task.

X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.3 and 4.4, for IBM POWER X X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for IBM POWER (Service Pack 3required)

X X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM POWER X X X X

Table11. Operatingsystemssupportedby IBMDirectoronSystem z systems

Operating system

IBMDirectorConsole

IBMDirectorServer

IBMDirectorAgent


Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for IBM System z (supportsUpdate 4 and earlier)

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Table11. Operatingsystemssupportedby IBMDirectoronSystem z systems (continued)

Operating system

IBMDirectorConsole

IBMDirectorServer

IBMDirectorAgent


SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for IBM System z (supports Service Pack3 and earlier)

X X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM System z X X X X

Support of IBM Director tasks across operating systemsThis section lists the IBM Director tasks and the operating systems upon whichthey are supported.

Support for IBM Director tasks can vary depending on the following items:v The system or hardware device model (the managed object)v The level of IBM Director support installed on the system or device (IBM

Director Agent for a Level-2 managed object, IBM Director Core Services for aLevel-1 managed object, or no IBM Director support which is Level-0 managedobject).

v The operating system that is installed on a managed objectv The service processor installed in the managed objectv The level of the device drivers that are installed on the managed object

Attention: The device drivers that are available for a managed object dependon the service processor and operating system that are installed on the managedobject.

For information about what hardware features are supported on IBM System x,BladeCenter, or IntelliStation hardware or what operating systems are supportedon IBM System x, BladeCenter, or IntelliStation hardware, go to the IBMServerProven Web site at www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/ .

Management-server support of IBM Director tasks acrossoperating systemsFor some IBM Director tasks to work, IBM Director Server must be installed on asystem running certain operating systems.

Task

Task is supported on the following operating systems:

All operating systemssupported by IBM DirectorServer Linux and Windows only

Asset ID X

CIM Manager X

Configuration Manager X

Configure SNMP Agent X

Event Log X

External Application Launch X

File Transfer X

Hardware Control Point X

Hardware ManagementConsole

X

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Task

Task is supported on the following operating systems:

All operating systemssupported by IBM DirectorServer Linux and Windows only

Hardware Status X

Inventory (hardware) X

Inventory (software) X

Microsoft Cluster Browser X

Network Configuration X

Power Management X

Process Management X

Rack Manager X

Remote Control X

Remote Session X

Resource Monitors X

Server Storage ProvisioningTool X

SNMP Browser X

Software Distribution X

Storage ConfigurationManager

X

System Accounts X

Update Manager X

Managed-object support for IBM Director tasks across operatingsystemsIBM Director task support for a managed object varies depending on the operatingsystem and the level of IBM Director support installed on the system or device.IBM Director Agent provides Level-2 managed object support. IBM Director CoreServices provides Level-1 managed object support. Level-0 support is provided forsystems via their operating system.

Review the following considerations when using this table:1. Not supported on Itanium systems.2. Not supported on System z systems.3. Not supported on guest operating systems.4. Supported on System x and Intel-based systems only.5. Not supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.6.

Support on Itanium systems is limited to Level 2.7. Platform-specific data is not available for hardware inventory.8. Supported only on the following 32-bit editions of Windows:

v Windows 2000, Advanced Server, Datacenter, and Server Editionsv Windows Server 2003, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, and Web Editions

9. Not supported for Linux on POWER.10. Not supported on 64-bit versions of these operating systems.11. Supported on Windows guest operating systems only.12. Only packages in the Solution Install format can be distributed to Level-0 and

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13. Supported on System x, xSeries, and Netfinity systems only.14. File systems that are displayed for the guest operating system are limited to

file systems within its virtual disk.15. Inventory data provided can vary among Level-0, Level-1 and Level-2

managed systems.

Task

Operating systems

Windows LinuxESX ServerGSX Server i5/OS AIX NetWare

MicrosoftVirtualServer

Asset ID Level 21 Level 21, 2 Level 2 Level 2 No No Level 2

CIM Manager Level 21 Level 21 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 No Level 2

ConfigurationManager

See Operating systems supported by the Configuration Manager task

ConfigureSNMP Agent

Level 21 Level 21, 5 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 No Level 2

Event Log Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2

External

ApplicationLaunch

See Operating systems supported by External Application Launch

File Transfer Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 14 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2

HardwareStatus

See Operating systems supported by the Hardware Status task

Inventory(hardware) 15

Levels 0, 1,26, 7

Levels 0, 1,26, 7

Levels 0, 1, 2 Level 2 Level 27 Level 27 Levels 0, 1, 2

Inventory(software)

Levels 0, 1,26

Levels 0, 1,26

Levels 0, 1, 2 Level 2 No Level 2 Levels 0, 1, 2

MicrosoftClusterBrowser

Level 28 No No No No No No

NetworkConfiguration

Level 21 Level 21, 9 Level 2 Level 2 No No Level 2

PowerManagement

See Operating systems supported by the Power Management task

ProcessManagement

Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2 Level 2

Rack Manager13

Level 210 Level 24, 10 Level 2 No No Level 2 Level 2

RemoteControl

Level 2 No Level 2 11 No No No Level 2

Remote

Session


ResourceMonitors


Server StorageProvisioningTool

See Operating systems supported by IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool

SNMPBrowser




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Task

Operating systems

Windows LinuxESX ServerGSX Server i5/OS AIX NetWare

MicrosoftVirtualServer

SoftwareDistribution 12

Levels 0, 1, 2 Levels 0, 1, 2 Levels 0, 1, 2 Levels 0, 2 Levels 0, 1, 2 No Levels 0, 1, 2

StorageConfigurationManager

Levels 1, 2 Levels 1, 2 2,9

Levels 1, 2 No No No Levels 1, 2

SystemAccounts

Level 21 Level 21, 9 Level 2 Level 2 No No Level 2

UpdateManager

Levels 0, 1, 2 Levels 0, 1, 22, 9

Levels 0, 1, 2 No No No Levels 0, 1, 2

Operating systems supported by Server Configuration Managerand BladeCenter Configuration ManagerThe Server Configuration Manager and BladeCenter Configuration Manager tasksdo not require IBM Director Agent or IBM Director Core Services to function.These tasks are a function of IBM Director Server.

You can use the Server Configuration Manager task on IBM System x andSystem i hardware managed objects. The operating system running on themanaged object does not affect the support of this task. The Server ConfigurationManager performs IP configuration using out-of-band communication.

You can use the BladeCenter Configuration Manager task on IBM BladeCenterhardware managed objects. The operating system running on the managed objectdoes not affect the support of this task.

Operating systems supported by External Application Launch

The External Application Launch task is supported by IBM Director Server wheninstalled on x86-based management servers running Windows or Linux. UsingExternal Application Launch, you can configure applications to start on any type ofmanaged object that has been discovered by your installation of IBM DirectorServer. Before you use External Application Launch to configure an application tostart on a managed object, you must make sure that the application runs on theselected managed object.

Operating systems supported by Hardware StatusThe Hardware Status task provides support for Level-2 and Level-1 managedobjects. Operating-system support varies depending on whether IBM DirectorAgent or IBM Director Core Services is installed.

Unless otherwise indicated, this task is supported (although the support might belimited) by:v Out-of-band notifications generated by a service processorv CIM indications generated by IBM Director Core Services or IBM Director Agent,

Version 5.10 or later

Table12. HardwareStatus support forSystem x servers; IBMand third-partyx86-basedsystems

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Table12. HardwareStatus support forSystem x servers; IBMand third-partyx86-basedsystems (continued)


v Windows 2000, Advanced Server, Datacenter, Professional, and Server Editionsv Windows XP Professional Editionv Windows Server 2003, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, and Web Editions

Yes Yes


v Windows Server 2003, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, and Web x64 Editionsv Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Yes Yes

Windows Server 2003, Datacenter and Enterprise 64-bit Itanium Editions No No


v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 3.0v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 4.0v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86

Yes Yes1

VMware ESX Server, versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, and 3.0, Console Yes1 Yes1

VMware ESX Server, versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, and 3.0, guest operating systems Limited Limited

v VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, Consolev VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, guest operating systems

(For

Console)Yes1 (Forguest)Limited

(For

Console)Yes1 (Forguest)Limited


v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 3.0, for AMD64 and EM64Tv Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 4.0, for AMD64 and EM64Tv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 and EM64Tv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 and EM64Tv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen Kernel

Yes Yes 1

v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 3.0, for Intel Itaniumv Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for Intel Itaniumv

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Itanium Processor Family

No No


Microsoft Virtual Server (guest operating system) Limited Limited

NetWare, version 6.5 Yes 2 Yes 3

1. Out-of-band notifications generated by a service processor or in-band events generated by CIM (CIM support issystem specific).

2. Out-of-band notifications generated by a service processor only.3. In-band events generated by IBM Director Agent for NetWare, Version 5.1 or earlier, or out-of-band notifications

generated by a service processor.

Table13. HardwareStatus support forSystem i platformsandSystem pservers

Operating system Level 1 Level 2v AIX 5L, Version 5.2v AIX 5L, Version 5.3

No No

v i5/OS, Version 5 Release 3


No Yes1

v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.3 and 4.4, for IBM POWERv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for IBM POWERv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM POWER

Yes1 Yes1

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Table14. HardwareStatus support forSystem z servers


v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for IBM System zv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for IBM System zv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM System z

No No

Operating systems supported by Power ManagementManaged systems must meet certain criteria for the Power Management task towork.

The Power Management task is provided using the right-click feature on managedobjects in IBM Director Console. Power Management support is provided throughone or more of the hardware or software:

v A service processor configured for out-of-band communication

v Operating system

v Wake on LAN network interface card (NIC)

Note: IBM Director Server also provides Power Management support for thefollowing versions of IBM Director Agent with the MPA Agent featureinstalled:v 4.22v 4.21v 4.20.2v 4.20v 4.12v 4.11v 4.10.2v 4.10

For information about this support, see the IBM Director 4.20 SystemsManagement Guide.

Power Management-support provided by operating systems:

Support for the Power Management task can be provided by the operating systemrunning on Level-0, Level-1, and Level-2 managed systems.

Table15. OperatingsystemssupportedbySystem x servers and third-party Intel-basedsystems

Operating system Supported


v Windows 2000, Advanced Server, Datacenter, Professional, and Server Editionsv Windows XP Professional Editionv Windows Server 2003, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, and Web Editions

Yes, RestartandShutdown


v Windows Server 2003, Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, and Web x64 Editionsv Windows XP Professional x64 Editionv Windows Server 2003, Datacenter and Enterprise 64-bit Itanium Editions

Yes, RestartandShutdown




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Table15. OperatingsystemssupportedbySystem x servers and third-party Intel-basedsystems (continued)


v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 3.0v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 4.0v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86v VMware ESX Server, versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, and 3.0, Consolev VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, Console

Yes, Restart

v VMware ESX Server, versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, and 3.0, guest operating systemsv VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, guest operating systems

Yes, Restart(for Linux)and RestartandShutdown(forWindows)


v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 3.0, for AMD64 and EM64Tv Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 4.0, for AMD64 and EM64Tv Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 3.0, for Intel Itaniumv

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for Intel Itaniumv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 and EM64Tv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Itanium Processor Familyv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 and EM64Tv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen Kernel

Yes, Restart


Microsoft Virtual Server (guest operating system) Yes, RestartandShutdown

NetWare, version 6.5 No

Note:(For System p servers only) Power Management-support provided only forLevel-2 managed systems.

Table16. OperatingsystemssupportedbySystem i platformsandSystem p servers




No 1

v AIX 5L, Version 5.2v AIX 5L, Version 5.3v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.3 and 4.4, for IBM POWERv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for IBM POWERv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM POWER

Yes, Restart

1. Power-management support is available to Level-2 managed systems running i5/OS and SSH. To acquire thissupport, discover the managed system, log in to the system, and promote the system to a Level-2 managedsystem.

Table17. OperatingsystemssupportedbySystem z servers


v Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for IBM System zv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for IBM System zv SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM System z

Yes, Restart



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Power Management-support provided by service processors:

Support for the Power Management task can be provided by System x serviceprocessors that can communicate out ofband.

The following service processors in IBM System x servers and blade serversprovide support for the Power Management task using out-of-band

communication:v Remote Supervisor Adapterv Remote Supervisor Adapter IIv IPMI baseboard management controller (BMC)

These service processors provide support for the Power On, Restart Now, andPower Off Now subtasks. Out-of-band communication does not require IBMDirector Core Services or IBM Director Agent, version 5.10. However, you mustconfigure the service processor to communicate with IBM Director Server. Also,you must associate a Physical Platform managed object (PPMO) with the serviceprocessor in IBM Director Console.

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