IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide

Chapter 1. Abstract 3

– Maintain virtual images in a repository

– Manage virtual server workload

򐂰 Energy management

– Collection and reporting of system energy usage

– Analyzing historical energy usage

– Advanced energy management and reporting

򐂰 Network management

– Discover, monitor, and manage multi-vendor network devices

– Automate network management tasks

򐂰 Service and Support

– Automatic problem reporting

– Performance and capacity analysis

– AIX enterprise system reports

– Enterprise service monitoring

For detailed step-by-step procedures for using IBM Systems Director, refer to the following

IBM Redbooks publication, and IBM publications located at the following sites:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247694.pdf

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.

main.helps.doc/fqp0_bk_install_gde_aix.pdf

1.3 Scope of this book

With products such as the IBM Cluster Systems Management and the IBM Systems Director,

there are many features, functions and capabilities that can be used by customers. This

chapter provides additional details about what we cover, and what we do not cover in this

book.

1.3.1 What we cover

Both IBM Systems Director and IBM Cluster Systems Management support a wide variety of

environments. At a high level, the scope of this book is as follows:

AIX operating system only

While both CSM and IBM Systems Director support multiple operating systems, the majority

of commercial CSM cluster customers are using AIX as their primary CSM operating system.

This operating system choice implies that Power (and not x86) is the architecture we cover in

this book.

CSM functions in IBM Systems Director

After reviewing 1.2, “Introduction to IBM Systems Director” on page 2, it is clear that IBM

Systems Director and its associated plug-ins add extended capabilities that do not exist in

IBM Cluster Systems Management. Therefore, this book does not delve into many of these

functions because they are already covered in the IBM Systems Director product

documentation and many books listed in the “Related publications” on page 149.