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ibm.com/redbooks IBM Systems Director Management Console Introduction and Overview Thomas Libor, PhD Allen Oh Lakshmikanthan Selvarajan Peter Wuestefeld Documents the SDMC appliance, which uses the Systems Director user interface Discusses the differences between the HMC and SDMC Provides a practical guide to the SDMC Front cover IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview April 2011 International Technical Support Organization SG24-7860-00 © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2011. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. First Edition (April 2011) This edition applies to Version 6, Release 730, Service Pack 1048A of SDMC Build Level 1. Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page xix. Note: This book is based on a pre-GA version of a product and may not apply when the product becomes generally available. We recommend that you consult the product documentation or follow-on versions of this IBM Redbooks publication for more current information. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. iii Contents Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi The team who wrote this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii Now you can become a published author, too! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii Stay connected to IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv Chapter 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Power Systems management consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Positioning the Systems Director Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 IVM, HMC, and SDMC support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4 Systems Director Management Console structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.5 Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.6 Functional differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.6.1 Enhanced virtualization management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.6.2 Users and roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.6.3 Additional functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.6.4 User interface enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.6.5 Redundancy model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.6.6 Backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.6.7 SDMC considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 2. Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.1.1 Hardware appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.1.2 Software appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.2 Installation of the hardware appliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2.1 Hardware installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.2.2 Hardware appliance installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.3 Installation of the software appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.3.1 SDMC software appliance installation media specifics . . . . . . . . . . . 19 iv IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview 2.3.2 VMware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.3.3 Red Hat KVM installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.4 Setup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2.5 SDMC software licensing requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.5.1 SDMC hardware appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.5.2 SDMC software appliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.5.3 Licensing for cores of managed systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Chapter 3. Basic operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.1 Features overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1.1 Power Server management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1.2 PowerVM Virtualization management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3.1.3 Power Unit management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 3.1.4 POWER processor-based blades management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.1.5 SDMC appliance management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.1.6 Service and support management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.1.7 Hierarchical management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3.1.8 Update management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3.2 Using the web interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 3.2.1 Layout of the web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 3.2.2 Launching a task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2.3 Resource views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 3.3 Command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4.1 Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 4.2 IVM to SDMC transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 4.2.1 What is transitioned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.2.2 How to transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.2.3 Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.3 HMC to SDMC transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.3.1 What is transitioned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.3.2 What is not transitioned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.3.3 Interactive transition using graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.3.4 Interactive transition using the command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.3.5 Offline transition using the graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.3.6 Offline transition using the command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 4.4 Transition in a private network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.4.1 SDMC as the DHCP server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 4.4.2 HMC as the DHCP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Chapter 5. System management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5.1 System discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Contents v 5.1.1 System discovery functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.1.2 Discovery of POWER processor-based blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 5.1.3 Using the command-line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 5.1.4 Auto discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 5.1.5 IP address rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 5.2 System discovery using the HMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5.3 System management operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 5.3.1 Edit Host page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 5.3.2 Operations page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.3.3 System Configuration page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5.3.4 Virtual Resources page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5.3.5 Hardware page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5.3.6 Release Management page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.3.7 System Status and Health page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.3.8 Service and Support Manager page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.3.9 State mappings between HMC and SDMC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 5.4 Hierarchical management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 5.4.1 Enabling hierarchical management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.4.2 Using hierarchical management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 5.4.3 Hierarchical management security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 5.5 Capacity on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 5.5.1 Launching the CoD task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 5.5.2 Capacity on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 5.5.3 Advanced Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 5.5.4 CoD operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter 6. Power Unit management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 6.1 Power Unit managment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 6.1.1 Edit Power Unit page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6.1.2 Bulk Power Assembly (BPA) Status page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6.1.3 Change Password page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6.1.4 Initialize Frame page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 6.1.5 Launch Advanced System Management page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 6.1.6 Power Off Unowned IO Units page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 6.1.7 Rebuild page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Chapter 7. Firmware updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 7.1 Update Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 7.1.1 Readiness Check page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 7.1.2 Installing updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 7.1.3 Power Firmware Management tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 8.1 Virtual Server creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 vi IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview 8.2 Virtual Server activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 8.3 Virtual Server shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 8.4 Virtual Server management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 8.4.1 Command-line usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 8.4.2 Current Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 8.4.3 Virtual Server Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 8.4.4 Server Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 8.5 Suspend and resume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 8.5.1 Suspend a Virtual Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 8.5.2 Resume a Virtual Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 8.6 Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management . 197 9.1 User management and security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 9.1.1 Hardware Management Console concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 9.1.2 IBM Systems Director concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 9.1.3 Assigning a role to a user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 9.1.4 User authentication and authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 9.1.5 User management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 9.2 Network configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 9.2.1 Configuring network settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 9.2.2 Configuring network settings using the SDMC CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 9.2.3 Testing network connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 9.3 Backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 9.3.1 SDMC hardware appliance backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 9.3.2 SDMC software appliance backup and restore on VMware . . . . . . 256 9.3.3 SDMC software appliance backup and restore on KVM . . . . . . . . . 261 9.4 Problem determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 9.4.1 Available logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 9.4.2 IBM Systems Director logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 9.4.3 Audit logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 9.4.4 Using pedbg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 9.4.5 Using pesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 9.5 SDMC appliance update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Chapter 10. Command-line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 10.1 SDMC command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 10.1.1 IBM Systems Director appliance commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 10.1.2 IBM Systems Director application commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 10.1.3 Power Systems management commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 10.2 HMC commands supported on the SDMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 10.3 HMC commands not supported on the SDMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Chapter 11. Schedule operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Contents vii 11.1 Scheduling operations for managed systems and Virtual Servers . . . . 290 11.1.1 Schedule tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 11.1.2 Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 11.1.3 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 11.1.4 Creating the job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 11.2 Editing, deleting, and copying, and viewing the properties of a scheduled operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 11.3 Automation Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 12.1 Systems Director Management Console High Availability versus redundant setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 12.2 Active/Passive High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 12.2.1 High availability terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 12.2.2 SDMC High Availability synchronized data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 12.2.3 SDMC High Availability processes monitored. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 12.2.4 Active/Passive High Availability: Log location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 12.3 Active/Passive High Availability: Configuration planning. . . . . . . . . . . . 307 12.3.1 Network requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 12.3.2 DHCP considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 12.4 High Availability configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 12.4.1 Configuration using SDMC High Availability setup wizard . . . . . . 313 12.4.2 Steps to install High Availability using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 12.5 Active/Passive High Availability: Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 12.6 Active/Passive High Availability: Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Chapter 13. Advanced System Management Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 13.1 Connecting to ASMI using the SDMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 13.2 Connecting to ASMI using the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 13.3 Using ASMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Chapter 14. Service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 14.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 14.2 Setup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 14.3 Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 14.4 Serviceable event processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 14.4.1 Detection of serviceable events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 14.4.2 Persistent storage and management of serviceable event data . . 347 14.4.3 Transmission of service requests and EED to IBM Support . . . . . 347 14.4.4 Processing of duplicate events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 14.4.5 User actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 14.4.6 Closure of serviceable events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 14.5 Support File Management (dump). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 14.5.1 Support Files view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 viii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview 14.5.2 Support Files Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 14.6 Service and Support Manager command-line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 14.7 Service and Support Manager tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 14.8 First Failure Data Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 14.9 Guided Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 14.9.1 Differences from HMC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 Appendix A. Command-line reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 IBM Power Systems management commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 IBM Systems Director application commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Event commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Scheduler commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 SSM commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 High availability commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 User commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Other commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Appendix B. IBM Systems Director base functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Base functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Appendix C. IBM Systems Director Management Console distribution details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 IBM Systems Director Management Console virtual disk images . . . . . . . . . 394 Abbreviations and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Online resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Help from IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 [...]... residencies, and workshops with the IBM Redbooks weekly newsletter: https://www.redbooks .ibm. com/Redbooks.nsf/subscribe?OpenForm Stay current on recent Redbooks publications with RSS Feeds: http://www.redbooks .ibm. com/rss.html xxiv IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview 1 Chapter 1 Overview The IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) is the successor to the Hardware Management. .. States and other countries Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries, or both Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others xx IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview Preface This IBM Redbooks® publication positions the IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) against the IBM Hardware Management Console. .. the Systems Director Management Console The SDMC represents the next generation of management appliances for Power Systems The IBM Systems Director approach required changes to functions that were available in the management consoles before The SDMC is designed to replace both Hardware Management Console and Integrated Virtualization Manager in Power Systems administration Thus, it can manage Power Systems. .. Power Systems management into the IBM Systems Director framework, it allows for easy management of many systems of different types It addresses the administration and management challenges that show up where server scale-out introduces economies of scale It also enables the integration of Power Systems into data center management tools from Tivoli® and other third parties 4 IBM Systems Director Management. .. Management Console: Introduction and Overview See Figure 1-3 for a schematic overview This figure shows where the SDMC fits into the overall view of IBM Systems Director systems management • Appliance stability • High availability • Scalable • Cloud enablement • Storage, I/O and network virtualization Enable Resiliency & Simplicity Virtualization Management • Updates across IBM systems • Expanded management. .. processor-based blades to high-end systems, allowing for a single, consistent approach to systems administration 2 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview The characteristics of those management consoles are as follows: Hardware Management Console: – Is implemented as an external, independent appliance – Administers entry level up to high-end systems – Can administer more than... Carol Hernandez, Eric R Larese, Derek Matocha, Andy Mills, Minh Nguyen, Amartey Pearson, Brian Preston, Ashok Shamsundar, Mark Smith, Anna Sortland IBM US Priya Kannan and Raghu Rajarao IBM India xxii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview Udo Sachs SVA Germany Now you can become a published author, too! Here's an opportunity to spotlight your skills, grow your career, and become... management of Power Systems • Expanded management of Power Blades Broaden Coverage Integrate IBM • Integration ready with Tivoli and IBM offerings Build Out Eco System Green Now • Delivers REST Web services integration • Reduce operational costs with smarter Energy Management Figure 1-3 Positioning the IBM Systems Director Management Console As a successor to both Hardware Management Console and Integrated... Optional Advanced Management via Global Director IBM Systems Director Management Console Appliance Domain specific management via a robust appliance HMC Private Mgmt Network IVM IVM IVM POWER servers Stand alone servers BladeCenter Figure 1-2 SDMC administrative framework The SDMC is positioned to unify platform management for IBM Systems, providing a consistent look -and- feel for common management tasks... commands (excerpt) 280 10-3 SDMC command output 282 12-1 Configuring High Availability using the CLI 321 © Copyright IBM Corp 2011 All rights reserved xvii xviii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A IBM . ibm. com/redbooks IBM Systems Director Management Console Introduction and Overview Thomas Libor, PhD Allen Oh Lakshmikanthan. . . . . . . . . . . . 351 viii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview 14.5.2 Support Files Management . . . . . . . . . . .