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 Lenovo
and non-Lenovo x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, 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 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:
- Discovery
- Inventory
- Configuration
- System health
- Updates
- Event notification
- Automation for managed systems
The 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 Systems Director, see the Systems Director
Information Center at ,
and the Systems Management website at the IBM Systems Management Solutions website,
which presents an overview of Systems Management and Systems Director.