ibm.com/redbooksIBM Systems Director Management ConsoleIntroduction and OverviewThomas Libor, PhDAllen OhLakshmikanthan SelvarajanPeter WuestefeldDocu

viii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14.5.2 Support Files Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

74 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFor the second method, perform the following steps to perform a transition of th

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 75Chapter 5. System managementThis chapter contains information about how to discover managed systems

76 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5.1 System discoveryDiscovery is the process by which IBM Systems Director iden

Chapter 5. System management 77You can launch the System Discovery tool by selecting the Common Tasks menu in the Welcome page or by clicking the Sy

78 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewVerify Connection pageThe Verify Connection page validates the connection betwee

Chapter 5. System management 79Request Access pageUse the Request Access page to request access to a system to which your SDMC has not yet authentic

80 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewConfigure Access pageUse the Configure Access page to view the status of Remote

Chapter 5. System management 815.1.2 Discovery of POWER processor-based bladesA POWER processor-based blade can be managed in very much the same wa

82 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe blade servers discovered directly and the blade servers that are discovered

Chapter 5. System management 83The DHCP service starts after the SDMC installation is completed. You can also manually start or stop the DHCP servic

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. ixFigures1-1 HMC and IVM management of POWER servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2

84 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5.2 System discovery using the HMCYou can also discover and manage systems that

Chapter 5. System management 85The context menu is shown in Figure 5-4.Figure 5-4 Extended managementSDMC does not directly manage the systems con

86 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf you want to list the systems on the SDMC that are being directly managed, use

Chapter 5. System management 87Figure 5-5 Edit Host page5.3.2 Operations pageThe Operations page includes the tasks for server operations. Right-

88 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe tasks are available based on the current operating state of the managed syst

Chapter 5. System management 895.3.6 Release Management pageThe Release Management page includes tasks for updating the firmware level of the manag

90 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe tasks are explained in detail in Chapter 14, “Service and support” on page 3

Chapter 5. System management 915.4 Hierarchical managementHierarchical management is a feature available in IBM Systems Director that enables you t

92 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5.4.1 Enabling hierarchical managementTo enable hierarchical management on the

Chapter 5. System management 933. Discover the domain server (another SDMC that is connected to managed systems) from the System Discovery page. The

x IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview6-1 Available Power Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

94 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5.5 Capacity on DemandCapacity on Demand (CoD) offerings allow you to dynamical

Chapter 5. System management 95Right-click the managed system and select System Configuration  Capacity on Demand (CoD) to launch the CoD page. The

96 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewProcessor Settings and Memory Settings are hyperlinks and clicking any of them t

Chapter 5. System management 975.5.4 CoD operationsYou can perform all CoD related operations from the CoD page. These operations are exactly the s

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 99Chapter 6. Power Unit managementThis chapter describes how the IBM Systems Director Management Cons

100 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview6.1 Power Unit managmentWhen a host is discovered, so are the Power Units. The

Chapter 6. Power Unit management 1016.1.1 Edit Power Unit pageYou can view and edit the properties of a Power Unit using the Edit Power Unit page.

102 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview6.1.2 Bulk Power Assembly (BPA) Status pageYou can view the state of the conne

Chapter 6. Power Unit management 103You have to enter the current password, then a new password, and verify it by entering it again.If you change th

Figures xi8-17 Create Virtual Server: Optical device and media selection . . . . . . . . . . 1498-18 Create Virtual Server: Load Source and Consol

104 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview6.1.5 Launch Advanced System Management pageYou can open the Advanced System M

Chapter 6. Power Unit management 105Rebuilding, or recreating, the managed frame acts much like a refresh of the frame information. Rebuilding a fra

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 107Chapter 7. Firmware updatesThis chapter cover installing and managing firmware on Power Systems fr

108 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview7.1 Update ManagerThe Update Manager is the component of SDMC used to perform

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 109Chapter 10, “Update Manager”, in Implementing IBM Systems Director 6.1, SG24-7694.In this chapter, we focus on only t

110 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview7.1.1 Readiness Check pageBefore performing any of the installation or managem

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 111Click the Gather Target Information button on the Readiness Check page to run the Readiness Check on the target syste

112 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf the selected system pass the Readiness Check, the Readiness column shows as

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 113򐂰 SDMC requires more update files for an image than just the .xml and .rpm files; it also requires the .dd.xml, .pd.s

xii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview8-60 Select Validate from the partition page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

114 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewGetting updatesThe easiest way to check for and download the latest updates is

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 115The user can then select the type of updates to check for on the Check for Updates page (Figure 7-7) and continue thr

116 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe updates for any IBM hardware managed by the SDMC (including Power Systems a

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 117If the USB is formatted for a vFAT file system, run the following command:mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbThe simples

118 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIn the same Common tasks section, there is also a link for Import Updates by FT

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 119Updating target systemsOn the Update Manager page, you can start an installation from the Show needed updates, Show a

120 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTo update the target systems, perform the following steps:1. To install the lat

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 1212. The Show Needed Updates page opens and show the system(s) from the selected list. Click the Show Needed Updates bu

122 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewAlso note the error message that appears at the top of the page stating that an

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 1234. On the Systems page that opens (Figure 7-14), select the target system to which you want to apply the previously s

Figures xiii9-42 Snapshot manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2619-43 View Trace Logs . . . .

124 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5. The Options page shows any applicable installation options or any additional

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 1256. From the Start Target Checks page, initiate readiness and concurrency checks for the selected targets. These check

126 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview7.1.3 Power Firmware Management tasksYou can manage firmware on Power Systems

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 127Procedures for Power Firmware Management operationsFrom the Resources tab on the Welcome page on the SDMC GUI, perfor

128 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe Power Firmware Management page opens (Figure 7-18). As with the readiness c

Chapter 7. Firmware updates 1292. After the target information is gathered, the Accept/Reject, Disruptive Activate, Synchronize, Remove and Activate

130 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. Click the Start Accept Task button (Figure 7-20).Figure 7-20 Start Accept

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 131Chapter 8. Virtual Server operationThe Virtual Server operation contains the operations for Virtua

132 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview8.1 Virtual Server creationOn the Hardware Management Console, Virtual Servers

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 133To create a Virtual Server, perform the following steps:1. From the Welcome page, locate the host on which th

xiv IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14-14 Manage Support Files system wide view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

134 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFigure 8-2 shows the wizard that allows you to create a Virtual Server.2. On th

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1353. When you are creating a Virtual Server for the Virtual I/O Server environment type, some selections will b

136 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview4. To create IBM i Virtual Servers, use the Memory menu (Figure 8-4). The diffe

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1375. The assigned memory can be dedicated or shared (Figure 8-5). The Shared option needs the Active Memory Sha

138 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview6. As shown in Figure 8-6, the default processor mode for Virtual Servers is Sh

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1397. As shown in Figure 8-7, the wizard queries the available Ethernet connections of the Virtual I/O Servers.

140 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf you would like to add a Logical Host Ethernet Adapter port to the partition,

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 141The ability to add storage adapters automatically when creating a Virtual Server was added to provide legacy

142 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFigure 8-10 Create Virtual Server: Assign storage adapter IDs

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 14310.The results are shown in Figure 8-11. If you decide to add another adapter to a second Virtual I/O Server,

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. xvTables1-1 Server firmware support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

144 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview11.If automatic storage adapter creation is chosen (Figure 8-12), additional ch

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 14512.Click Next. The page shown in Figure 8-13 opens. Clicking the Create Virtual Disk button opens a page wher

146 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewAs shown in Figure 8-14, the Virtual I/O Server, the name, the disk pool and th

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 14713.If automatic storage adapter creation for Physical Disks was checked, you can select available disks in al

148 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14.If you select Fibre Channel in the page shown in Figure 8-16, then, on the S

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 14915.In Figure 8-17, you can select either physical or virtual optical media. A virtual optical device is chose

150 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview16.If you created an IBM i Virtual Server, an additional page is available befo

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 15117.The last page in the Create Virtual Server Wizard, the Physical I/O Adapters page, allows you to attach ph

152 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewExample 8-1 is a sample command that is used to create an Virtual Server.Exampl

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 153To activate a Virtual Server, perform the following steps:1. Right-click the server name and select Operation

xvi IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewA-19 listjobs command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

154 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2. Select a profile. In our example, we only have the default profile, which is

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1553. Click the Advanced tab and select the options for the keylock position and boot mode (Figure 8-22).Figure

156 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview4. The Welcome page opens and shows the state and detailed state of the Virtual

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1578.3 Virtual Server shutdownTo shut down a Virtual Server, navigate to the Welcome page, right-click the name

158 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe next page (Figure 8-25) shows the available options for shutting down the o

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1598.4 Virtual Server managementThe Manage Virtual Server menu option in the Welcome page allows you to customi

160 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTo manage the Virtual Server, navigate to the Welcome page, right-click the nam

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 161The page with the General Settings tab opens (Figure 8-27). The settings that can be changed here are shown i

162 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe Tasks button (Figure 8-28) allows you to execute the following tasks direct

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 163The Processor page allows you to change the processor related settings of the Virtual Server, including the p

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. xviiExamples2-1 OVF Tool CLI using an OVA file on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

164 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewNote the blue values in the drop-down menu and the changed appearance of the bu

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 165The default memory mode for Virtual Servers is Dedicated and Active Memory Expansion (AME) is enabled by defa

166 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf the memory mode is set to Shared, as shown in Figure 8-32, Advanced Memory S

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 167On the following Network tab (Figure 8-33), you can configure virtual network adapters for the Virtual Server

168 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf the check box right to the virtual network adapter is checked, the Edit butt

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 169On the Storage Adapters page (Figure 8-35), you can removed existing storage adapters if you check the check

170 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTo add an storage adapter, click the Add button (Figure 8-35 on page 169) and e

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 171If you chose to add a Virtual Fibre Channel adapter, the page shown in Figure 8-37 opens. Note that the World

172 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewOn the Storage Devices page (Figure 8-38), three types of storage devices can b

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 173Figure 8-39 shows the available physical volumes on the Virtual I/O servers. We select hdisk8 on the second V

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174 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe Add Fibre Channel menu allows you to add additional Virtual Fibre Channel a

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 175The Media Devices page lets you add media devices to the Virtual Server, that is optical devices, such as CD

176 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFigure 8-42 shows the available Physical Media devices. Click the OK button to

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 177Clicking Add in the Virtual Media section of the Media Devices page opens a list of the available virtual med

178 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe task in Figure 8-43 on page 177 creates a Virtual Optical device adapter th

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 179The last page in Manage Virtual Servers (Figure 8-45) allows you to add physical adapters to the Virtual Serv

180 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf you click the Add button, the list of physical adapters on the server appear

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 181When adding the physical adapters and virtual adapters, there is a short period of time where the addition of

182 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview8.4.1 Command-line usageChanges to the Virtual Server configuration also can b

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 183On the Welcome page, navigate to the Virtual Server and right-click the Virtual Server to access the menu opt

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. xixNoticesThis information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A. IBM may not

184 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewClicking Save Current Configuration takes you to the Save page (Figure 8-49). H

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1858.4.3 Virtual Server ProfilesThe Virtual Server Profile contains the configuration of the Virtual Server. Wh

186 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewRemember that the display of menus is context sensitive and shows only tasks an

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 187To access the profiles of a Virtual Server, refer to Figure 8-48 on page 183. Select System Configuration  M

188 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewClick Edit to open the Logical Partition Profile Properties menu. This menu all

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 189There are initially no System Profiles defined for a server. To create a System Profile, enter a name into th

190 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewExpand the toggle of the Virtual Server to see all the profiles of that Virtual

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 191Note that Virtual Servers using shared memory cannot be added to a system profile. If you attempt to add thes

192 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewCommand-line usageA System Profile can also be defined by running smcli mksyscf

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 1938.5.1 Suspend a Virtual ServerTo perform a suspend operation on an Virtual Server, perform the following ste

xx IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTrademarksIBM, the IBM logo, and ibm.com are trademarks or registered trademarks

194 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2. From the Partition Suspend/Resume page (Figure 8-59), you can select Suspend

Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation 195The Resume status page shows the progress of the resume operation and shows a success completion.8.6 Mobilit

196 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2. In the Validate page, the Migrate and View VLAN buttons should be currently

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 197Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console managementThis chapter covers the various tasks

198 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview9.1 User management and securityVirtualization means that more than one system

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 199Because the terminology and the structure of user and security management changes f

200 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview9.1.2 IBM Systems Director conceptsUsers in IBM Systems Director are users tha

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 201򐂰 sysadminThis is the user designed to be the primary administrator of the SDMC.򐂰 p

202 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewUser groupsThe following user registry groups are employed for granting granula

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 203Refer to Figure 9-1 for a display of users and their initially assigned groups afte

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. xxiPrefaceThis IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC

204 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview AssignedRoles: {'SMAdministrator' applied to <ALL GROUPS>}

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 205RolesThere are four roles that are initially defined on the SDMC:򐂰 SMAdministratorT

206 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewCreating a roleTo create a role, perform the following steps:1. Expand Security

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2072. Click Create to open the Roles wizard Welcome page. Clicking Next opens the Name

208 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. Clicking Next opens the Permissions page (Figure 9-4). You see a page with t

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2094. Click the plus sign next to any role to expand it. All permissions collected in

210 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewListing rolesRoles can be listed using the command line by running smcli lsrole

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 211GroupsThe concept of groups in the SDMC is equivalent to that of Resource Roles in

212 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewCreating a groupTo create a group, perform the following steps:1. Click Navigat

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2132. Click Create Group to open the Welcome page of the Group Editor wizard (Figure 9

xxii IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe team who wrote this bookThis book was produced by a team of specialists fr

214 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. Enter a name for the group and, optionally, a description on the Name page a

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2154. Click Next to open the Define page, which allows for a wide selection of resourc

216 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5. To select a single entry, for example, a Virtual Server, click All Systems.

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2176. Click Next, and the Summary page that lists the resources assigned to this group

218 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewAfter clicking Finish, the wizard closes and the new group is shown on the Grou

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 219To assign a role to a user, perform the following steps:1. In the left pane of the

220 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2. The Welcome page of the Assign Role wizard opens. Click Next to open the Rol

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2213. Select the roles you want to assign to this user and click Next to open the Grou

222 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview4. Click Next to open the Summary page, which lists permissions and groups assi

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 223Authentication methodsThree different authentication methods can be used with SDMC.

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224 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewLocal authenticationTo perform local authentication, perform the following step

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2252. A page opens where the user credentials can be specified. Refer to Figure 9-19 f

226 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewOptionally, you can specify a user description (Description), an SSH session ti

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 227򐂰 Users need only one user ID and password, as opposed to multiple accounts for eac

228 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview --bindpw password --loginattr uid --groupfilter '(|(objectclass=g

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 229Another method to configure SDMC for LDAP user management is by using a GUI. In the

230 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe Welcome page of the LDAP client configuration wizard is shown in Figure 9-2

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 231Figure 9-22 shows how to create a user for LDAP authentication. No other informatio

232 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewKerberosSDMC allows for Kerberos authentication. A detailed configuration walkt

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 233SDMC can be configured as a Kerberos client in the GUI by clicking the Configure Ke

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234 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewAfter clicking the link, a wizard walks you through the required steps to compl

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 235After configuring the Kerberos client, a user can be added to the SDMC by clicking

236 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewExample 9-12 provides an example about how to use the mkuser command with Kerbe

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 237Modifying user propertiesAfter the new user account has been created, its propertie

238 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewClick the newly created user to open the User properties page (Figure 9-27). In

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 239All of the listed attributes can be changed except the first two, which were define

240 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewDeleting usersTo remove a user using the command line, run smcli rmuser (Exampl

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 241To take advantage of the additional security and ease of setup, implement service n

242 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTo view and change the network settings go to the Settings tab on the Welcome p

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 243When you select it, the network configuration wizard starts (Figure 9-30).Figure 9-

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 1Chapter 1. OverviewThe IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) is the successor to the Hardwa

244 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewDHCPIf you select Configure System as a DHCP server, you get a page where you c

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 245IP addressIf you select Standard network interface, you get a page where you can se

246 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFirewallAfter selecting a DHCP or static IP address, the Firewall menu opens, w

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 247IBM Systems Director Console HTTP Access8421:TCP NoCommon Agent Service(CAS) 9510:T

248 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewAfter configuring the firewall, the LAN adapter page opens again, where you can

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 249DNSIn the next page, you can specify one or more Domain Name Services (DNS) server

250 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewNetwork reconfigurationIn the next page, a job is scheduled for the reconfigura

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 251You can close this page by clicking close. You can see the status of the job by sel

252 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview9.2.2 Configuring network settings using the SDMC CLIYou can also view and cha

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2539.2.3 Testing network connectivityThe network connectivity can only be tested by u

2 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview1.1 Power Systems management consolesThe Hardware Management Console (HMC) allow

254 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewBackupTo perform the backup, perform the following steps:1. Check if the system

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 255Here is our example of this command:backup -l usb -Y6. The backup command starts th

256 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview-l The location to store the backup file. If sftp is specified, the -s argumen

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2572. Select the virtual machine which want to back up, right-click it, and select Sna

258 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. Enter the snapshot name and description, and create a new snapshot of the se

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2594. The snapshot is stored on the host. To copy it to another reliable location, sel

260 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSteps for restore using the VMware vSphere ClientTo perform a restore using the

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2613. You can also select to restore from other snapshots by selecting the Snapshot Ma

262 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewKVM backup procedureThe SDMC software appliance back up on KVM requires LVM sup

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 26311.Create the SDMC /Snapshot_LV_Dir/sdmc/data/images directory by running the follo

Chapter 1. Overview 3The characteristics of those management consoles are as follows:򐂰 Hardware Management Console:– Is implemented as an external,

264 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewlsrm -rf *4. Extract the tarball to the images directory and time it by running

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 265/var/hsc/log/iqzdtrac.trm This log files contains information related to Common Con

266 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTrace logs in GUIYou can view the trace logs of the SDMC using the graphical us

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 2679.4.2 IBM Systems Director logsThe log files related to IBM Systems Director are l

268 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSDMC allows you to configure the settings for the trace and error logs. This ta

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 269Here are the available trace levels:򐂰 Severe򐂰 Warning򐂰 Info򐂰 Fine򐂰 Finer򐂰 FinestBy

270 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe usage of the pedbg command is as follows:pedbg [ -d [on | off] | -c | [-c &

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 271Run the lsconfig -v command to obtain the UVMID:sysadmin@dd174:~> lsconfig -vvpd

272 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThere are three types of SDMC appliance updates:򐂰 Service pack updates򐂰 Interim

Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management 273To auto-check and download applicable updates (which is easiest if the SDMC has acc

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4 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSee Figure 1-2 for an overview of how the SDMC is placed in an enterprise-wide ad

274 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf the SDMC does not have access to the internet, the manual procedures for ins

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 275Chapter 10. Command-line interfaceThis chapter discusses the command-line interface (CLI) of the I

276 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview10.1 SDMC command-line interfaceIn the SDMC CLI there are three types of comma

Chapter 10. Command-line interface 277Table 10-1 provides a listing of the most important IBM Systems Director appliance commands and their usage. F

278 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview10.1.2 IBM Systems Director application commandsThe IBM Systems Director appli

Chapter 10. Command-line interface 279Availability/mkvsmfarmAvailability/mkvsmmigratetaskLEDCLI/chledLEDCLI/lsledauditing/chauditauditing/lsauditAs

280 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview10.1.3 Power Systems management commandsThe Power Systems management (psm) com

Chapter 10. Command-line interface 281psm/chledpsm/chlparstatepsm/chlparutilpsm/chpwrmgmtpsm/chstatpsm/chsvcpsm/chsyscfgpsm/chsyspwdpsm/chsysstateps

282 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe output of the Power Systems management commands on the SDMC is the same as

Chapter 10. Command-line interface 283bkprofdata Backs up profile data for the managed system.The -o option will be ignored by SDMC.chcod Performs C

Chapter 1. Overview 5See Figure 1-3 for a schematic overview. This figure shows where the SDMC fits into the overall view of IBM Systems Director sy

284 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewcpdump Copies managed system dumps and managed frame dumps from the SDMC to DVD

Chapter 10. Command-line interface 285lslock Lists which SDMC owns the lock on the managed frame.No change.lslparmigr Lists partition migration info

286 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewlsvet Lists Capacity on Demand advanced functions activation information for th

Chapter 10. Command-line interface 28710.3 HMC commands not supported on the SDMCTable 10-4 lists the HMC commands listed that are no longer suppor

288 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewchaccfg smcli chrole. chhmc chnetcfg. chhmcencr No replacement available.chhmcf

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 289Chapter 11. Schedule operationsIn this chapter, we describe how to schedule operations for certain

290 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview11.1 Scheduling operations for managed systems and Virtual ServersTo schedule

Chapter 11. Schedule operations 291򐂰 Power On򐂰 Manage Utility CoD򐂰 Modify Shared Processor Pool򐂰 Modify Virtual Server Pool Assignment򐂰 Modify Power

292 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewClick OK, and the Task Launch Dialog page opens (Figure 11-3).Figure 11-3 Tas

Chapter 11. Schedule operations 293Monthly You can specify the duration of how long the job repeats, if the job should run on weekends, and on which

6 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview1.3 IVM, HMC, and SDMC supportThe transition will begin in the second half of 20

294 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview11.1.4 Creating the jobWhen you have made your selections in the Task Launch D

Chapter 11. Schedule operations 295Figure 11-5 shows an overview over the scheduled, active, and completed jobs.Figure 11-5 Active and Schedule Jo

296 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIf you click a job, you can view the properties of the selected job (Figure 11-

Chapter 11. Schedule operations 29711.3 Automation ManagerIf you select the Automation Manager on the main Manage tab, you get an overview over the

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 299Chapter 12. High availability and redundancyImplementing IBM Systems Director Management Console (

300 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview12.1 Systems Director Management Console High Availability versus redundant se

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 301򐂰 For an environment where the SDMC is used for agent OS management and there is a high availability

302 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFor this setup, configure an SDMC (A) to point to the active agent manager runn

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 303Figure 12-3 shows both the software and hardware stack that of an SDMC High Availability environment

Chapter 1. Overview 7This support plan is the same plan as the support plan for the Hardware Management Console. For proper and supported function,

304 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewRunning the setup wizard or using CLI commands on the SDMC designated to be the

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 305Primary node This is the node you use to set up high availability. It is initially the active node.

306 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview12.2.3 SDMC High Availability processes monitoredThese are the processes monit

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 30712.3 Active/Passive High Availability: Configuration planningYou need to plan the setup of SDMC Hig

308 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview12.3.1 Network requirementsBecause data is continually replicated between the

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 309Replication IP addressBecause the replication IP address on each of the two SDMC nodes in the High A

310 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 Choose an address that each node can reach by a single path. If there are mul

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 31112.3.2 DHCP considerationsThe SDMC cannot be a DHCP client. If your network is set up so that one D

312 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewShared DHCP configurationThe DHCP server is only run on the active node. Config

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 31312.4.1 Configuration using SDMC High Availability setup wizardPerform the following steps:1. Open u

8 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe virtualization layer for the hardware appliance is fixed and cannot be change

314 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2. The Welcome page for the High Availability setup wizard (Figure 12-8) shows

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 3153. In the Secondary Node setup page (Figure 12-9), enter the IP address or host name and the passwor

316 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5. In the Replication IP Address page (Figure 12-10), specify the IP addresses

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 3176. If you want a network status IP address, determine an appropriate IP address and enter it into th

318 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview7. Determine the available IP address to be used as the floating IP address and

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 3198. If you use Systems Director Common Agent Services, you must specify an agent manager IP address s

320 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview9. The final page (Figure 12-14) shows the summary of all the configuration inp

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 321After the configuration completes, you can use the floating IP address to connect to the Systems Dir

322 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview12.5 Active/Passive High Availability: UpdatesFor the initial release of the S

Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy 323The Director data is at a Snapshot level that is equivalent to when you started the upgrade. Events

Chapter 1. Overview 9Table 1-2 POWER6 support by SDMCTable 1-3 POWER7 support by SDMCPOWER6 models Machine types SDMC595 9119-FHA HW APP Only575

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 325Chapter 13. Advanced System Management InterfaceIn this chapter, we describe how to log in to the

326 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview13.1 Connecting to ASMI using the SDMCTo connect to the ASMI using the SDMC, p

Chapter 13. Advanced System Management Interface 3273. A page opens that has a drop-down menu for the service processor to which you want to connect

328 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview4. A new browser page opens with the login page of the ASMI (Figure 13-3).Figur

Chapter 13. Advanced System Management Interface 32913.2 Connecting to ASMI using the CLITo connect to the ASMI using the SDMC command-line interfa

330 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSystem Dump Initiates a system dump.Service Processor Dump Initiates a service

Chapter 13. Advanced System Management Interface 331Memory Serial Presence Detect DataShows manufactures data of detected memory modules.Firmware Ma

332 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSelective Memory MirroringThis function is not available when your system is co

Chapter 13. Advanced System Management Interface 333򐂰 Network ServicesNetwork Configuration Displays and modifies the network configuration of the s

10 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview1.5 TerminologyBased on the integration into IBM Systems Director, a common ter

334 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 Login ProfileChange Password Lets you change the general user, administrator,

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 335Chapter 14. Service and supportThis chapter provides information about the service and support fea

336 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14.1 IntroductionService and Support Manager (SSM) is part of IBM Systems Dire

Chapter 14. Service and support 33714.2 Setup wizardTo set up the Service and Support Manager to report serviceable problems to IBM, you have to ru

338 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewPerform the following steps:1. Click the Service and Support Manager Getting St

Chapter 14. Service and support 3392. On the next page, enter your company’s contact data (Figure 14-3).Figure 14-3 Company contact page

340 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. The fields marked by an asterisk are mandatory and must be completed before

Chapter 14. Service and support 3415. In the Connection page, you have to specify how the SDMC can connect to IBM, either through a direct Internet

342 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview6. When you click Next, the Authorize IBM IDs page opens (Figure 14-6).Figure 1

Chapter 14. Service and support 3437. When you click Next, the Summary page opens (Figure 14-7).Figure 14-7 Summary page8. You can always go back

Chapter 1. Overview 11The command-line interface has been mostly kept the same. On the SDMC, most of the commands are just preceded by smcli. This n

344 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe tasks related to the Call Home feature are available on the context menu of

Chapter 14. Service and support 345Support FilesYou can use this task to collect the support files for the monitored system. The support files can b

346 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14.4 Serviceable event processingThe Service and Support Manager automatically

Chapter 14. Service and support 34714.4.2 Persistent storage and management of serviceable event dataService and Support Manager persists all the i

348 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14.4.5 User actionsYou can see a problems dashboard on top of the web interfac

Chapter 14. Service and support 349This page shows all the active problems reported for all discovered systems. Click any of the problems and you sh

350 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe General tab provides information from the Director Status Set of the event.

Chapter 14. Service and support 351You can also close a serviceable event by selecting Request Closure of a given service request, which causes the

352 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSystem wide support files viewThe system wide support files view can be reached

Chapter 14. Service and support 353After you click the link, the Manage Support Files system wide view opens (Figure 14-14).Figure 14-14 Manage Su

12 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview1.6.3 Additional functionsThe SDMC comes with the IBM Systems Director base man

354 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewMonitored system support files viewThe monitored system support files view can

Chapter 14. Service and support 355Serviceable problem support files viewThe serviceable problem support files view can be reached over an active se

356 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 Submit support files to IBM by clicking the Submit to IBM... button, or by us

Chapter 14. Service and support 357Figure 14-17 Collect Support Files pageYou can only get support files from one system at a time. Specify the ty

358 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSystem dump A system dump is a dump of the hardware and server firmware content

Chapter 14. Service and support 359There are two other tasks that can be used to remove support files򐂰 The Service and Support Manager Support File

360 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewProperties of support filesOn the General tab of the properties page of a suppo

Chapter 14. Service and support 361򐂰 You can see the location where the support files are saved locally.򐂰 You can see the free space left for the su

362 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview14.6 Service and Support Manager command-line interfaceThe Service and Support

Chapter 14. Service and support 36314.7 Service and Support Manager tasksThe Service and Support Manger (SSM) defines a number of tasks (scheduled

Chapter 1. Overview 131.6.7 SDMC considerationsHere is the list of limitations for SDMC when compared with the HMC:򐂰 The system plans feature is no

364 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 Collect Performance DataThis task runs on a daily basis. It is performed for

Chapter 14. Service and support 36514.9 Guided RepairYou can perform Guided Repair procedures from the context menu of a managed system. Right-clic

366 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewProblem Repair You can execute a repair from the Problem Information page, whic

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 367Appendix A. Command-line referenceIn this appendix, we list the IBM Systems Director Management Co

368 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIBM Power Systems management commandsThis section lists the Power Systems manag

Appendix A. Command-line reference 369Table A-3 shows information about the mk5250 command.Table A-3 mk5250 commandTable A-4 shows information abo

370 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIBM Systems Director application commandsThis section lists the IBM Systems Dir

Appendix A. Command-line reference 371Event commandsThis section lists the commands for event handling. To see the options of the commands in the ev

372 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-10 shows information about the listeventactions command.Table A-10 li

Appendix A. Command-line reference 373Table A-13 shows information about the listfilters command.Table A-13 listfilters commandScheduler commandsI

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374 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-16 shows information about the getjobstatus command.Table A-16 getjob

Appendix A. Command-line reference 375SSM commandsIn this section, we list the commands for the Service and Support Manager (SSM).Table A-20 shows i

376 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-22 shows information about the cpsptfile command.Table A-22 cpsptfile

Appendix A. Command-line reference 377Table A-23 shows information about the lssptfile command.Table A-23 lssptfile commandCommand lssptfileDefini

378 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-24 shows information about the lssvcproblem command.Table A-24 lssvcp

Appendix A. Command-line reference 379Table A-26 shows information about the ssmimport command.Table A-26 ssmimport commandExample This example il

380 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-27 shows information about the submitsptfile command.Table A-27 submi

Appendix A. Command-line reference 381Syntax smcli configureHA--secondary-node secNode--password thePassword--primary-rep-addr primRepAddr--secondar

382 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-29 shows information about the failover command.Table A-29 failover c

Appendix A. Command-line reference 383Table A-30 shows information about the removeHA command.Table A-30 removeHA commandUser commandsIn this sect

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 15Chapter 2. InstallationIn this chapter, we describe the installation of the IBM Systems Director Ma

384 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-32 shows information about the rmuser command.Table A-32 rmuser comma

Appendix A. Command-line reference 385Other commandsIn this section, we list commands not listed in the previous sections.Table A-33 shows informati

386 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable A-35 shows information about the licensestatus command.Table A-35 licen

Appendix A. Command-line reference 387Table A-39 shows information about the startdiscovery command.Table A-39 startdiscovery commandTable A-40 sh

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 389Appendix B. IBM Systems Director base functionsIn this appendix, we discuss the IBM Systems Direct

390 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewBase functionsBase functions (plug-ins) in IBM Systems Director provide core fu

Appendix B. IBM Systems Director base functions 391Configuration ManagerThe Configuration Manager is used to integrate new hardware into your enviro

392 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIBM Power Systems managementIBM Power Systems management provides life cycle ma

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 393Appendix C. IBM Systems Director Management Console distribution detailsIn this appendix, we give

16 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2.1 PrerequisitesThis section lists the requirements and pre-requisites for the

394 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewIBM Systems Director Management Console virtual disk imagesTable C-1 shows the

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 395AME Active Memory ExpansionAMM Advanced Management ModuleAMS Active Memory SharingASM Advanced Sy

396 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSMS Systems Management ServicesSPCN System Power Control NetworkSSH Secure Shel

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 397Related publicationsThe publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable f

398 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 IBM Fix Centralhttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/򐂰 IBM Systems Director 6

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 399IndexNumerics7042-CR6 16–17Aaccesssys command 82activate Virtual Server 152Active and Sched

400 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewfailover 321impdata 68, 282lsbundle 278lsldap 228lsled 59lsnetcfg 2

Index 401configuration 246First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) 364Flexible Service Processor (FSP) 308failover 365floating IP address 303, 30

402 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewstates 10LPAR See logical partitionlsbundle command 278lsldap command 228

Index 403rediscover command 83redundancy 12, 299–301relocation 10Remote Access Manager 391Remote Command Execution 276Remote Monitoring an

Chapter 2. Installation 17The supported host operating systems and hypervisors are:򐂰 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 with KVM (kvm-83-164.el5) o

404 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overviewsmhastatus command 320–321SMManager role 10, 199, 205smmgr group 202smmon

Index 405Xx86 hardware 16–17

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18 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2.2.1 Hardware installationFor the hardware appliance, you need at least one ne

Chapter 2. Installation 192. After DVD1 is copied, the following prompt appears:Press Enter to shutdown the system. After the system is powered off,

20 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 A graphical interface on the VMWare Virtual Infrastructure ClientTo use the CL

Chapter 2. Installation 212. Select File  Deploy OVF Template, as shown in Figure 2-2.Figure 2-2 Deploy OVF Template from vSphere Client

22 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. Select the Deploy from file radio button and click the Browse button. Navigat

Chapter 2. Installation 234. Continue through the pages until you reach the Ready to Complete page. Review the deployment settings and click Finish

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. iiiContentsFigures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

24 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2. Because all files and images needed are contained within the OVA, you can sim

Chapter 2. Installation 25This command extract the disk images (dvmdisk1.img, dvmdisk2.img, dvmdisk3.img,...dvmdisk7.img).4. Create the domain XML f

26 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSee the sample domain.xml file in Example 2-2. The tags that might have to be cu

Chapter 2. Installation 27 </disk> <disk type="file" device="disk"> <source file="/vdisk1/vm1/dvm

28 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5. Define VM by running the following command:virsh define <domain>.xml6.

Chapter 2. Installation 29– pt_br: Brazilian Portuguese– zh_CN: Simplified Chinese– zh_TW: Traditional Chinese2. Accept the IBM Software License Agr

30 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3. After accepting the license agreement, the Welcome page of the setup wizard o

Chapter 2. Installation 314. Enter the date, time, and time zone for your location (Figure 2-8).Figure 2-8 Date and Time page

32 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5. The next four pages request the passwords for the sysadmin, root, and pe user

Chapter 2. Installation 33square brackets ([ ]), backslash (\), colon (:), quotation mark ("), semicolon (;), and apostrophe ('). – Passwo

iv IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview2.3.2 VMware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview8. The last page to complete is the Agent Manager configuration page (Figure 2-1

Chapter 2. Installation 359. After completing the last page and clicking Next, the Summary page opens (Figure 2-12). You can always go back from her

36 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview10.If all went well, you see the System Setup Processing page; a status of Succe

Chapter 2. Installation 3711.After clicking Close, the SDMC boots and a startup page opens (Figure 2-14).Figure 2-14 Console starting page

38 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe startup takes up to five minutes. When the startup is finished, the Systems

Chapter 2. Installation 392.5.1 SDMC hardware applianceFor the SDMC hardware appliance, the customer needs to order the 7042-CR6 machine type with

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 41Chapter 3. Basic operationThis chapter provides an overview of features and tasks provided by IBM S

42 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview3.1 Features overviewThe SDMC is now available as part of the IBM Systems Direc

Chapter 3. Basic operation 43Edit host This task displays the properties of the server. The properties contain information about the processors, mem

Contents v5.1.1 System discovery functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765.1.2 Discovery of POWER processor-bas

44 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewCollect utilization dataYou can set the SDMC to collect the resource utilization

Chapter 3. Basic operation 45Suspend and resume Virtual ServersYou can suspend Virtual Servers to store its state on a Storage Area Network (SAN). Y

46 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewRebuild Power Unit Use this task to rebuild the Power Unit information in the SD

Chapter 3. Basic operation 47Security and user managementYou can create users and roles. You can assign permissions to roles and assign the roles to

48 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewSupport file managementSSM provides the following capabilities for managing supp

Chapter 3. Basic operation 493.2 Using the web interfaceSDMC provides a web interface similar to the HMC. Power on the SDMC appliance and you shoul

50 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewEnter the user ID and password that corresponds to an authorized SDMC user and c

Chapter 3. Basic operation 51There could be other non-Power Systems that are discovered and managed by SDMC. You can see these systems in the Naviga

52 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewYou can open multiple views or pages and have them open as tabs at the same time

Chapter 3. Basic operation 53Figure 3-3 shows a snapshot of the layout of the management tasks on the context menu of the server.Figure 3-3 Contex

vi IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview8.2 Virtual Server activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

54 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewFigure 3-4 shows the other tasks that are available in the context menu of the s

Chapter 3. Basic operation 55Figure 3-5 shows a snapshot of the layout of the management tasks available on the context menu of the Virtual Server.F

56 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTable viewThe table view displays a list of resources along with their informati

Chapter 3. Basic operation 57Properties viewThe properties view displays a list of properties and other detailed information related to the selected

58 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewTopology viewThe topology view displays the relationship among your resources. S

Chapter 3. Basic operation 593.3 Command-line interfaceThe IBM Systems Director provides the systems management command-line interface, referred to

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 61Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management ConsoleThis chapter describ

62 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview4.1 ConceptsTransition is a new feature that is available to transition systems

Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console 634.2.1 What is transitionedWhen you transition managed systems fro

Contents vii11.1 Scheduling operations for managed systems and Virtual Servers . . . . 29011.1.1 Schedule tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

64 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview򐂰 Creates default profiles based on Virtual Server current configuration read fr

Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console 654.3 HMC to SDMC transitionThis section describes how you can tran

66 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewPerform the following steps to perform an online transition:1. Launch the transi

Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console 674. You should now see a list of managed systems (Figure 4-2) that

68 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewAfter successful authentication, the Access state of the managed system changes

Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console 69All serviceable events must be closed before you can execute this

70 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview5. Browse to and select the exported configuration data file from step 1 (Figure

Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console 714.3.6 Offline transition using the command-line interfacePerform

72 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and OverviewThe flow chart in Figure 4-4 shows a snapshot of the complete transition process

Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console 734.4.1 SDMC as the DHCP serverPerform the following steps to perfo