IBM System x3750 M4 Type 8733, Installation And Service Manual

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IBM Systems Director
IBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the
way you manage physical and virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment. By
using industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating
systems and virtualization technologies in IBM and non-IBM x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, IBM 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 IBM 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, monitoring, updates, event
notification, automation for managed systems, hardware log, power, and light
path.
The IBM Systems Director web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent
interface that is focused on driving these common tasks and capabilities:
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Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the
detailed inventory and relationships to the other network resources
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Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to isolate the
source of the problem
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Notifying users when systems need updates and distributing and installing
updates on a schedule
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Analyzing real-time data for systems and setting critical thresholds that notify
the administrator of emerging problems
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Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan that
can apply those settings to multiple systems
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Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the base
capabilities
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Managing the life cycles of virtual resources
For more information about IBM Systems Director, see the IBM Systems Director
Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/
index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.director.main.helps.doc%2Ffqm0_main.html, and the
Systems Management web page at http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/,
which presents an overview of IBM Systems Management and IBM Systems
Director.
Chapter 1. The System x3750 M4 Types 8722 and 8733 server
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