IBM Systems IBM Systems Director Systems Management Guide Version 6.1.1 GC30-4176-04 IBM Systems IBM Systems Director Systems Management Guide Version 6.1.1 GC30-4176-04 Note Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page 621. © Copyright IBM Corporation 1999, 2009. US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents About this publication ix Conventions and terminology ix Publications and related information ix Web resources xii How to send your comments xiii What's new xv What's new in version 6.1.2 xv What's new in version 6.1.1 xxii What's new in version 6.1 xxix Terminology changes xxxvi Chapter 1. Overview of IBM Systems Director 1 Accessibility 1 License information 1 IBM Systems Director technical overview 2 IBM Systems Director components 3 Manageable resource types 7 Manageable systems 7 User interfaces 8 Base function and extensible plug-ins 9 Upward integration 16 I'm a 5.20 user. How do I use 6.1? 17 Why am I starting at the Welcome page? . . . 17 What can I do with the rest of the interface? . . 29 How do I discover my systems? 31 How do I view my systems and groups? . . . 35 How do I view my inventory? 50 Where are my tasks? 52 How do I start tasks? 53 How do I create a hardware event action plan? 53 Chapter 2. Using the IBM Systems Director Web interface 57 Logging into IBM Systems Director Server 57 Logging out of IBM Systems Director Server . . . 58 Navigating the Web interface 58 The Web interface 58 Customizing the Web interface 60 Managing and closing open pages in the Web interface 61 Viewing help in the Web interface 61 Navigating IBM Systems Director by way of the Welcome page 62 IBM Systems Director Welcome page 62 System severity states 69 Starting work in IBM Systems Director 70 Learning about the product 70 Checking IBM Systems Director readiness . . . 71 Viewing updates 71 Viewing tutorials 72 Viewing the IBM Systems Director Server summary 72 Finding and navigating resources 74 Resource views 75 Finding systems and other resources 86 Viewing resources in the topology perspective. . 87 Working with tables 89 Working with topology maps 97 Working with properties 104 Setting navigation preferences 105 Renaming a resource 107 Removing a resource 107 Managing groups 108 Groups 108 Creating a criteria-based dynamic group . . . 113 Creating a static group 115 Editing a group 116 Deleting a group 117 Adding a resource to an existing group 117 Exporting a group 118 Importing a group 118 Finding and starting tasks 119 Launched tasks and the IBM Systems Director Launched Tasks program 119 Finding a task 119 Starting tasks 120 Starting the IBM Systems Director Launched Tasks program 121 Integrating external applications into IBM Systems Director 133 Scheduling tasks 149 Noninteractive tasks 149 Jobs and job instances 150 Scheduling a task 150 Scheduling a task from a selected system . . . 151 Viewing active and scheduled job information 153 Viewing information about scheduled jobs . . 154 Determining target systems that are affected by ajob 154 Viewing job-instance records 155 Viewing job-instance logs 155 Copying a scheduled job 156 Editing a scheduled job 157 Running a scheduled job immediately 157 Suspending and resuming a scheduled job . . 157 Deleting a job 158 Managing auditing 158 Audit records 158 Setting server-auditing preferences 159 Viewing the audit log 160 Deleting the audit log 161 Encrypting interprocess communication 161 Encryption 161 Enabling encryption 162 Disabling encryption 163 Changing the encryption algorithm 163 Resending the encryption key to systems . . . 164 Creating a new encryption key 164 © Copyright IBM Corp. 1999, 2009 iii Chapter 3. Discovering systems and collecting inventory data 165 Discovery 165 Getting started discovery 165 System discovery 166 Advanced system discovery 167 Choosing which discovery to use 168 Discovery protocols 169 Viewing the discovery manager summary 171 Renaming discovered systems automatically . . . 172 Performing getting started discovery 173 Discovering systems with system discovery . . . 174 Performing a system discovery 175 Discovering systems that use a mirrored image 176 Viewing system discovery results 178 Discovering systems with advanced system discovery 178 Discovery profiles 178 Creating a discovery profile 179 Managing discovery profiles 180 Performing an advanced system discovery . . 181 Collecting and viewing inventory data 182 Inventory data and collection profiles 182 Creating an inventory collection profile 183 Managing inventory collection profiles 185 Collecting inventory 186 Viewing inventory 187 Chapter 4. Configuring systems . . . 189 Configuration settings 189 Configuration templates 189 Configuration plans 190 The Automatically deploy feature 191 Predefined configuration plans 192 Configuration-setting license entitlement 192 Monitoring the deployment of configuration plans and configuration templates 192 Managing system configuration 194 Viewing configuration settings 194 Editing configuration settings 194 Saving configuration settings as configuration templates 195 Saving configuration settings to a configuration plan 195 Managing configuration templates 196 Creating configuration templates 196 Creating a configuration template from an existing one 197 Viewing configuration templates 198 Editing configuration templates 198 Adding configuration templates to a configuration plan 199 Deploying configuration templates 199 Viewing deployed targets 200 Exporting a configuration template 200 Importing a configuration template 201 Deleting configuration templates 201 Managing configuration plans 201 Creating configuration plans 201 Creating a configuration plan from an existing one 203 Deploying configuration plans 203 Viewing configuration plans 204 Viewing deployment history 204 Editing configuration plans 205 Exporting a configuration plan 205 Importing a configuration plan 205 Deleting configuration plans 206 Chapter 5. Monitoring system status and health 207 System status and health 207 Viewing the status manager summary 209 Viewing the performance summary 210 Using the Health Summary task to view the status of your environment 211 Scoreboard 212 Dashboard 213 Health summary 213 Using the scoreboard to identify issues 213 Adding a graphical monitor to the dashboard 216 Removing a graphical monitor from the dashboard 216 Adding systems to the health summary . . . 217 Removing a group from the health summary 219 Using Navigate Resources to view the status of a specific resource 219 Managing monitors 219 Resource-monitor attributes 220 Viewing a monitor 233 Creating a monitor view 234 Editing a monitor view 236 Deleting a monitor view 237 Graphing a monitor 237 Creating a threshold 238 Managing thresholds 239 Viewing a threshold 239 Activating a threshold 239 Editing a threshold 240 Deactivating a threshold 240 Deleting a threshold 240 Managing status set entries 241 Viewing a specific status set entry 241 Viewing status set entries for a specific resource 242 Viewing status set entries for a group of resources 242 Activating a status set entry 243 Deactivating a status set entry 243 Deleting a status set entry 244 Managing the event log 245 Viewing events 245 Deleting an event 246 Changing event log preferences 246 Creating an event filter from an event 247 Viewing SNMP device attributes 247 Managing MIB files 248 Compiling a MIB file 248 Loading MIB files into memory 248 Managing process monitors 249 Viewing process monitors 249 iv IBM Systems Director Systems Management Guide Creating a process monitor 249 Applying a process monitor 250 Removing all process monitors 250 Monitoring system resources 251 Recording resource-monitor statistics 251 Exporting resource-monitor statistics 251 Viewing a graph of a resource-monitor recording 252 Removing a resource-monitor record 252 Running a command-line program on a managed system 253 Creating a command definition 253 Running a command definition 254 Restricting anonymous command execution . . 254 Chapter 6. Automating tasks 257 Events, filters, and actions in event automation plans 258 Events 258 Event filters 259 Event actions 263 Monitoring operating-system specific events . . 274 Viewing the automation manager summary . . . 274 Managing event automation plans 276 Viewing event automation plans associated with a resource 276 Creating an event automation plan 276 Copying an event automation plan 285 Editing an event automation plan 286 Deactivating and activating an event automation plan 286 Viewing event automation plan properties. . . 287 Deleting an event automation plan 287 Managing event actions 288 Creating an event action 288 Editing an event action 289 Copying an event action 289 Testing an event action 290 Deleting an event action 291 Saving and not saving an event-action history 291 Viewing an event-action history 292 Refreshing entries in an event-action history log 293 Deleting entries from an event-action history log 294 Viewing event action properties 294 Event-data-substitution variables 295 Managing event filters 298 Creating, editing, or copying an event filter . . 298 Editing an event filter 301 Copying an event filter 302 Viewing event filter properties 302 Viewing predefined filter criteria 303 Deleting an event filter 303 Chapter 7. Updating systems 305 Supported updates 306 Supported System x and BladeCenter systems . . 307 Starting to monitor and update systems 307 Updates to IBM Systems Director and IBM Director 308 Determining the installed IBM Systems Director version 308 Considerations for updating systems that have earlier versions of IBM Director 308 Updating IBM Systems Director 309 Update considerations for specific operating systems and platforms 310 Update considerations for AIX systems 310 Update considerations for IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter 312 Update considerations for Hardware Management Console (HMC) systems 315 Update considerations for IBM i systems . . . 316 Update considerations for Linux systems . . . 316 Update considerations for Power Systems Firmware 317 Update considerations for Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) systems 317 Viewing the Update Manager Summary page . . 319 Configuring update manager 320 Getting started with updates 320 Changing update settings 321 Managing updates 323 Managing update groups 324 Performing actions on updates 325 Viewing information about updates 333 Keeping systems in compliance 339 Compliance policies 340 Modifying compliance policies 340 Identifying systems that are out of compliance 342 Resolving compliance issues 343 Showing needed updates 343 Showing available updates 344 Showing installed updates 344 Update types 345 Update types for AIX 345 Update types for System x and IBM BladeCenter 345 Update types for HMC 347 Update types for IBM Systems Director and IBM Director 347 Update types for IBM i systems 347 Update types for Linux 347 Update types for Power Systems Firmware . . 348 Update types for Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) systems 348 Chapter 8. Remotely accessing systems and resources 349 Remote access facilities 349 Distributed Command 349 File transfer 350 Hardware command line 350 Launch Web browser 351 Remote command line 351 Remote control tasks 351 Remote Xen Console 352 Serial Console 352 Running remote access functions 352 Using the Distributed Shell 353 Transferring files and directories 356 Synchronizing files, directories, or drives . . . 356 Changing the encoding for a file 357 Contents v Using the hardware command line 357 Establishing a remote command-line session . . 358 Launching a Web browser 358 Configuring Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Connection 359 Establishing Remote Desktop Connection . . . 359 Establishing Virtual Network Computing communications 359 Establishing IBM BladeCenter or RSA communication 360 Establishing a remote Xen console session . . . 360 Using the serial console 361 Chapter 9. Managing agents 363 Common agent services 363 Installing agents using the Agent Installation Wizard 365 Importing agent packages 369 Creating agent packages 370 Setting the agent manager for IBM Systems Director Server 372 Viewing the agent manager properties 372 Adding a new agent manager 372 Setting the active agent manager 373 Deleting an agent manager 374 Using a remote agent manager with IBM Systems Director 374 Managing the agent manager used by a Common Agent 377 Viewing the agent manager configuration 380 Securing Common-Agent managed systems . . . 380 Changing the agent registration password . . . 380 Migrating common agents to a different management server 383 Chapter 10. Managing IBM BladeCenter and System x systems. . 385 Supported IBM BladeCenter products 385 Service processor communication 386 In-band communication requirements 386 Out-of-band communication requirements. . . 387 Out-of-band communication and the standard TCP Command Mode protocol 389 Out-of-band communication and the secure TCP Command Mode protocol 390 Out-of-band alert-forwarding strategies 391 Service processors and resource types 391 Viewing the IBM BladeCenter and System x management summary 392 Downloading and activating BladeCenter I/O module plug-ins 394 Configuring integrated management modules . . 394 Integrated management module task support and features 395 Changing the integrated management module IP address by way of the Server resource . . . 395 Changing the integrated management module IP address by way of the System resource . . . 396 Changing the network port on an integrated management module 396 Configuring integrated management module security 396 Configuring the Try DHCP setting for integrated management module 397 Enabling Secure Sockets Layer after discovery 397 Enabling Secure Sockets Layer before discovery 398 Changing the password for the Remote Supervisor Adapter or management module 398 Managing power state settings on IBM BladeCenter and System x servers 399 Power On/Off task support using out-of-band communication 399 Power On/Off task support using Wake on LAN technology on System x 399 Power On/Off task support by way of the operating system on System x and blade servers 400 Changing the power state on System x and IBM BladeCenter hardware 400 Enabling collection of SNMP-based inventory by way of management modules 401 Using hardware-log information from System x service processors and IBM BladeCenter products . 401 Hardware-log information using out-of-band and in-band communication 402 Viewing hardware-log information 402 Refreshing hardware-log information 403 Clearing the hardware-log information 403 Providing hardware-log information 404 Using locator LED settings on IBM BladeCenter and System x servers 405 Locator LEDs and out-of-band and in-band communication 405 Identifying hardware with the locator LED . . 405 Solving hardware problems using light-path-diagnostic LEDs on IBM BladeCenter and System x servers 406 Light-path-diagnostic LED information 406 Viewing light-path-diagnostics status 408 Viewing detailed light-path-diagnostics information 408 Changing the resource for viewing light-path-diagnostics LED information 409 Configuring templates 409 Password security levels for IBM BladeCenter management modules and System x service processors 409 Configuring the boot sequence for a blade server in an IBM BladeCenter chassis 411 Configuring an IBM BladeCenter management module 412 Configuring network resources for IBM BladeCenter blade servers 429 Configuring SNMP agent community information 430 Configuring the IP address pool for IBM BladeCenter systems and System x servers . . 431 Configuring System x service processors . . . 432 Configuring IBM BladeCenter switch module protocols 444 Configuring the IBM BladeCenter switch module virtual LAN 447 vi IBM Systems Director Systems Management Guide Configuring users and passwords for an IBM BladeCenter chassis 449 Managing network-configuration information 450 Managing system-account information 452 Setting asset information 455 Chapter 11. Managing IBM Power Systems 459 New terms for Power Systems users in IBM Systems Director 459 Managing Power Systems running AIX 461 Managing Power Systems running IBM i 461 Managing systems controlled by HMC and IVM 462 Viewing the Power Systems Management summary 463 Monitoring for IBM i message queue events . . . 464 Managing power state settings on IBM Power systems 466 Power On/Off task support by way of the operating system on IBM Power systems . . . 466 Changing the power state on IBM Power systems 467 Chapter 12. Managing IBM System z systems 469 System z virtualization 469 Basics about the z/VM operating system 469 z/VM manageability access point and agent . . . 472 Viewing the System z Management summary page 473 Discovering systems and collecting inventory data for System z 474 Managing power state settings for Linux on System z servers 475 Power On/Off task support by way of the operating system on System z servers 475 Changing the power state on System z servers 475 Chapter 13. Managing and configuring storage 477 Storage management in real time and using configuration templates 477 Managing SMI-S providers 477 SMI-S providers for IBM Systems Director. . . 477 Installing SMI-S Providers 480 Configuring SMI-S providers 486 Discovering and collecting inventory for storage devices 488 Running Discovery and unlocking storage devices using SMI-S providers 489 Running Direct Connection discovery and unlocking storage devices using SMI-S providers 489 Running Advanced Discovery for multiple SMI-S providers using multicast and broadcast . 491 Running Advanced Discovery for SMI-S providers using a directory agent 492 Working with external storage applications . . . 494 Installing and configuring external storage applications 494 Launching an external storage management application 497 Viewing storage devices 500 Storage Management Summary 500 Viewing storage systems using storage groups 502 Displaying attached storage for a given system 502 Viewing storage volumes 503 Viewing the health and status of storage devices 503 Storage topology perspective 504 Managing storage in real-time 505 Managing IBM BladeCenter and System x storage devices 505 Adding IBM BladeCenter Integrated Storage devices to a server 508 Provisioning storage from an existing storage subsystem 509 Managing storage volumes in real time 510 Configuring iSCSI components in real time . . 513 Configuring IBM BladeCenter SAS zone connectivity in real time 518 Managing storage with configuration templates 519 Viewing storage configuration templates . . . 519 Changing storage configuration templates . . . 520 Creating a configuration template for a storage volume 520 Managing IBM BladeCenter SAN configuration mapping 521 Configuring iSCSI components using configuration template 524 Managing IBM BladeCenter SAS zone configuration 529 Chapter 14. Managing virtual environments 533 Virtual systems 533 Platform managers 533 Virtual farms 533 Hosts 535 Virtual servers 536 Guest-operating-systems 537 Virtualization groups 537 Viewing the virtualization manager summary . . 538 Viewing resources in virtualization perspectives 539 In the Virtualization Basic perspective 539 In the Virtualization Common perspective. . . 539 In the Virtualization Detail perspective 539 Viewing resources in the Platform Managers and Members view 539 Viewing resources in the Virtual Servers and Hosts view 540 Viewing virtualization properties 540 Configuring virtual resources 541 Configuring Power Systems platform managers 541 Configuring storage resources 546 Managing host systems 548 Entering maintenance mode 548 Exiting from maintenance mode 548 Starting the virtualization service on a host . . 549 Stopping the virtualization service on a host . . 549 Managing virtual farms 549 Adding a host to a virtual farm 549 Creating a virtual farm 550 Contents vii Deleting a virtual farm from IBM Systems Director and VMware VirtualCenter 551 Removing a virtual farm from IBM Systems Director 552 Editing a virtual farm 552 Removing a host from a virtual farm 552 Starting the virtualization service on a farm . . 553 Stopping the virtualization service on a farm 553 Viewing virtual farms 553 Managing virtual servers 554 Connecting to a platform manager 554 Disconnecting from a platform manager . . . 555 Creating virtual servers 555 Creating a virtual disk for Xen 569 Deleting a virtual server permanently 570 Editing host resources 570 Editing virtual servers 571 Accessing the Xen remote console 573 Managing power operations on virtual servers 573 Relocating virtual servers 576 Launch VMware ESX Manager User Interface 584 Launch VMware VirtualCenter Console . . . 584 Launch VMware Infrastructure Client 584 Launch Microsoft Virtual Server Console . . . 584 Chapter 15. Security 587 Authenticating users to IBM Systems Director . . 588 User authentication 588 Users and user groups in IBM Systems Director 588 Authenticating IBM Systems Director users stored in the local operating system 590 Authenticating IBM Systems Director users stored in the domain server 590 Authenticating IBM Systems Director users stored in LDAP 591 Editing user properties 592 Authorizing users to IBM Systems Director . . . 592 User authorization 592 Roles 593 Permissions and roles required to run smcli commands 595 Authorizing users to manage resources 599 Assigning a role to a user or user group . . . 599 Copying a role to another user 600 Creating a role 600 Managing roles 601 Ending the session for another user 602 Managing credentials in IBM Systems Director . . 602 Credentials 603 Managing shared credentials 604 Managing targeted credentials 605 Managing console access point credentials. . . 607 Configuring the authentication registry 609 Managing mappings 610 Managing access 612 Managing access to agentless managed systems 612 Accessing a secured system with request access 612 Accessing a secured system with configure access 613 Revoking access to a secured system 614 Communication protocols and supported encryption algorithms 614 Encrypting passwords for database configuration 615 Appendix. 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