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IBM
IBM Systems
IBM Systems Director for IBM i
Planning, Installation, and Configuration Guide
Version 6.1.2
GI11-8710-03
IBM
IBM Systems
IBM Systems Director for IBM i
Planning, Installation, and Configuration Guide
Version 6.1.2
GI11-8710-03
Note
Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page 105.
© Copyright IBM Corporation 1999, 2009.
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Contents
About this publication . . . . . . . . v Conventions and terminology . . . . . . . . v Publications and related information . . . . . . v Web resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii How to send your comments . . . . . . . . ix
Checklist: Installing agents on IBM i . . xi
Chapter 1. IBM Systems Director
technical overview . . . . . . . . . . 1 IBM Systems Director components . . . . . . . 2 Management server . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Common Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Platform Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Agentless-managed systems . . . . . . . . 5 Manageable resource types . . . . . . . . . 6 Manageable systems. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 User interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Base function and extensible plug-ins . . . . . . 9 Discovery manager . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Status manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Configuration manager . . . . . . . . . 10 Automation manager . . . . . . . . . . 11 Update manager. . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Remote access manager . . . . . . . . . 11 Virtualization manager . . . . . . . . . 12 Network Management. . . . . . . . . . 12 IBM BladeCenter and System x management . . 12 IBM System z management . . . . . . . . 13 IBM Power Systems management . . . . . . 13 IBM System Storage management . . . . . . 13 Additional IBM Systems Director plug-ins . . . 14 Upward integration. . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2. Planning for IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hardware and software requirements. . . . . . 17
Hardware requirements for IBM Systems Director 17 Supported IBM systems and products . . . . 17 IBM BladeCenter products . . . . . . . . 18 Supported network devices . . . . . . . . 19 Supported storage devices . . . . . . . . 22 Network requirements. . . . . . . . . . 24 Security requirements . . . . . . . . . . 33 Operating system and software requirements . . 34 IBM Systems Director task support by operating system and agent levels . . . . . . . . . 42 IBM Systems Director task support not affected
by operating systems . . . . . . . . . . 45 IBM Systems Director task support for
BladeCenter products . . . . . . . . . . 45 IBM Systems Director task support for Storage products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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Supported tasks and features for third-party
x86-based systems . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Translations provided by IBM Systems Director 47
Applicability of the IBM Systems Director, versions 6.1.1 or 6.1.2 (6.1.x), Platform Agents . . . . . . 48 Determining IBM Systems Director task support . . 49
Questions to answer about IBM hardware . . . 49 Questions to answer about third-party hardware 50 Planning to install IBM Systems Director . . . . 51 Service and support information . . . . . . 51 Reviewing the environment . . . . . . . . 52
Version compatibility of IBM Systems Director components across version 6.1.x releases. . . . 55 License information. . . . . . . . . . . 57 Obtaining licenses for Common Agent . . . . 58 Choosing the IBM Systems Director Server installation options . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Choosing where to install IBM Systems Director Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Choosing the IBM Systems Director database application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Choosing the management level for managed systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Planning for virtual environments . . . . . . 63
Planning to update IBM Systems Director . . . . 63 Disaster recovery for IBM Systems Director 6.1 . . 65 Planning for events. . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Planning events to be monitored . . . . . . 67
Planning for event automation plan implementations. . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Planning IBM Systems Director security . . . . . 71 Planning IBM Systems Director users and groups 71 Planning Secure Sockets Layer configuration on
IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . 72 Planning password management in IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 3. Preparing agentless
managed systems . . . . . . . . . . 83 Preparing to manage a IBM BladeCenter . . . . 83
Preparing to manage a IBM BladeCenter chassis using IBM Systems Director Server on a
non-blade server. . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Preparing to manage a IBM BladeCenter chassis using IBM Systems Director Server on a blade
server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Preparing Hardware Management Console devices
for discovery with IBM Systems Director . . . . 86 Preparing IBM i managed systems. . . . . . . 87
Chapter 4. Discovering systems and collecting inventory data . . . . . . . 89 Discovery protocols. . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Discovering systems with system discovery . . . 90
System discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 90
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