About IBM Director

Why IBM Director

What's new

• Simplified installation. Using default values and a simplified task list, the new IBM Director Express Installation can simplify installation. Choose it for essential operations, and add other tasks after installation, if desired.
• Management for updates. A new Update Manager task provides integrated management of firmware and driver updates.
  • Profiles can be used to define approved sets of updates.
  • New updates are automatically downloaded based on defined profiles.
  • Levels on managed systems can be compared against defined profiles.
  • Reports are generated and systems can be brought up-to-date.
• Security improvements. IBM Director 5.20 provides security improvements in these areas:
  • Support for LDAP server authentication.
  • Support for hierarchy of global or domain local user groups.
  • Task authorization for both parent tasks and subtasks.
  • Command line support for user and group authorization tasks.
• Expanded command line interface. IBM Director 5.20 provides a command line interface that has been expanded to allow command-line creation of dynamic groups.
• Inventory collection now collects firmware information for more devices, including hard disk drives, SCSI tape drives, NIC adapters, and RSA video BIOS for most managed systems.
• Includes support for new IBM hardware.
• An updated, comprehensive, Web-based information center provides easy access to the most up-to-date product information available.