IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide

16 IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide

򐂰 IBM Systems Director Standard Edition

– Monitor and manage energy within capacity.

– Reduce time to deploy workloads.

– Get a single view and status of network and server systems.

򐂰 IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition

– Deploys workloads faster with improved reliability in system pools.

– Increases productivity with prioritized information and context, real-time and historical

health status.

– Uses predictive capabilities to help with capacity estimation.

The following chargeable plug-ins (

not the Editions) are provided with a 60 day trial license

available:

򐂰 VMControl Standard and Enterprise Edition

򐂰 Active Energy Manager

򐂰 Network Control

򐂰 Storage Control

2.6 Extendibility

One of the features of both IBM Cluster Systems Management and IBM Systems Director is

the ability to add to the base functionality as shipped either via IBM-defined or

administrator-defined programs.

2.6.1 Application programming interfaces

In this section we provide information about the application programming interfaces.

IBM Systems Director REST API

In addition to the graphical user interface and command line interfaces, IBM Systems Director

also has a Software Development Kit that utilizes the representational state transfer (REST)

API to provide a consistent mechanism for interacting with the Systems Director Server. The

REST API allows access to the base Systems Director functions (discover, inventory,

configuration, health and monitoring, event notification and automation) and plug-in functions

for VMControl and Active Energy Manager. The programming model allows for asynchronous

notification via Java Message Service for processing real-time events.

For documentation about the SDK, see:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/sdk/topic/com.ibm.usmi.toolki

t.doc/systems_management_landing.html

RSCT RMC API

IBM Cluster Systems Management does not, itself, have a direct programming interface.

However, the technology that underpins the software, namely Reliable Scalable Cluster

Note: IBM Systems Director requires a proper license for all platforms, including the

management server and server endpoints.