IBM Director Installation and Configuration Guide Version 5.10 Update 3

IBM IBM Systems IBM Director Installation and Configuration Guide Version 5.10 Update 3 IBM IBM Systems IBM Director Installation and Configuration Guide Version 5.10 Update 3 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Appendix C, "Notices." Eighth Edition (February 2007) This edition applies to version 5.10 update 3 of IBM Director and to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1999, 2007. All rights reserved. US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents About this book . . . . . . . . . . . v Conventions and terminology . . . . . . . . v Related information . . . . . . . . . . . . v How to send your comments . . . . . . . . viii What’s new . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix What’s new in version 5.10 Update 3 . . . . . . ix What’s new in version 5.10 Update 2 . . . . . xiii What’s new in version 5.10 Update 1 . . . . . xvii What’s new in version 5.10 . . . . . . . . xviii What’s new in version 4.22 . . . . . . . . xxvi What’s new in version 4.21 . . . . . . . . xxviii Chapter 1. Getting started with IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introducing IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . 1 IBM Director components . . . . . . . . . . 2 IBM Director Core Services . . . . . . . . 3 IBM Director Agent . . . . . . . . . . . 4 IBM Director Console . . . . . . . . . . 5 IBM Director Server . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Common Information Model . . . . . . . . 8 Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Event management . . . . . . . . . . . 15 External application tasks. . . . . . . . . 27 Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Managed objects. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Managed system . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Mass configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Scalable objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Software distribution . . . . . . . . . . 47 SNMP devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Storage managed objects . . . . . . . . . 50 Server Storage Provisioning Tool . . . . . . 53 Storage area network . . . . . . . . . . 54 Service processors . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Upward integration. . . . . . . . . . . 61 User interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 z/VM Center concepts . . . . . . . . . 65 Chapter 2. Planning . . . . . . . . . 79 Specified operating environments . . . . . . . 79 Hardware requirements for IBM Director . . . 79 Network requirements. . . . . . . . . . 83 Supported operating systems . . . . . . . 87 Operating systems supported by IBM Director tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Operating systems supported by System Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 © Copyright IBM Corp. 1999, 2007 IBM Director task support for BladeCenter products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Supported database applications . . . . . . 152 Reviewing the environment . . . . . . . . 153 Identifying the hardware . . . . . . . . 154 Identifying local and remote subnets . . . . 154 Identifying firewalls and blocked ports. . . . 154 Planning to install IBM Director . . . . . . . 155 Choosing where to install IBM Director Server 155 Selecting the IBM Director Server installation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Planning for Capacity Manager . . . . . . 158 Planning to install the IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Selecting the IBM Director database application 160 Planning for tiered deployment of IBM Director 162 Planning for virtual environments . . . . . 163 Planning for events . . . . . . . . . . 165 Planning to update IBM Director . . . . . . . 171 Version compatibility of IBM Director 5.10 components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Version compatibility of IBM Director 5.10 Update 1 components . . . . . . . . . 172 Version compatibility of IBM Director 5.10 Update 2 components . . . . . . . . . 173 Version compatibility of IBM Director 5.10 Update 3 components . . . . . . . . . 174 Chapter 3. Installing . . . . . . . . 177 Preparing to install IBM Director . . . . . . . 177 Preparing the IBM Director database . . . . 177 Preparing to install IBM Director Server . . . 190 Preparing Level-1 managed systems. . . . . 206 Preparing to manage a BladeCenter . . . . . 207 Preparing Windows XP managed systems . . . 211 Preparing your System z environment for z/VM Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Installing IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . 227 Installing IBM Director Server . . . . . . . 227 Installing IBM Director Console . . . . . . 270 Installing Level 1: IBM Director Core Services 283 Installing Level 2: IBM Director Agent . . . . 303 Installing IBM Director extensions . . . . . 344 Changing IBM Director installation options . . 387 Upgrading and updating IBM Director . . . . . 391 Upgrading to IBM Director 5.10 from previous releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Updating IBM Director . . . . . . . . . 401 Initially configuring IBM Director . . . . . . 401 Authorizing IBM Director users . . . . . . 402 Configuring discovery preferences . . . . . 407 Performing server-initiated discovery of managed objects . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Setting up software-distribution preferences . . 425 iii ... - tailieumienphi.vn