IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide

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2.10 Transformation as a project and future impacts

The transformation from CSM to IBM Systems Director will result in major changes in the way

you manage your infrastructure. We cannot avoid thinking about it as a project, which requires

proper planning activities not only for the system administration personnel but for other teams

who have the responsibility to keep important applications running.

Having a CSM cluster is not only about installing and monitoring the operating system. The

way you manage that operating system has serious implications on the applications that are

running on those systems. Changing the core management infrastructure, when you

transform it from CSM to IBM Systems Director, may result in planned outages when you are

performing the transformation and most likely will result in changes in the way the systems

are administered after transformation is complete.

In the following section, we discuss some of the nontechnical aspects of such a major change

in your infrastructure. We make appropriate references when we see a technical issue that is

documented in this or other published materials.

The transformation itself can be seen as a project, but it will result in changes how you can do

your daily work after that is finished, so we split this section into two parts.

2.10.1 Transformation project

We provide two scenarios with detailed guidance for the technical steps and provide further

technical explanations for the most important steps of the transformation process. Refer to

Chapter 3, “Transformation scenarios” on page 39.

In this section, we concentrate on the broader view.

Preparation

Planning and preparation can take longer than the actual implementation steps of a project

and is the most important aspect of any successful project.

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