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Overview
IBM Director 5.10 is even easier to deploy and provides more choice regarding the amount of hardware management you desire. This is accomplished with a tiered approach to the management of systems on your network. IBM Director 5.10 comes with a lighter product footprint, allowing customers to choose from agent-less or zero footprint, basic hardware management or the full IBM Director Agent.

The IBM Director Agent also supports the latest industry standards and provides broad platform operating system support, simplifying the management of complex, heterogeneous systems. IBM Director's broad platform coverage includes Windows, Intel Linux, Power Linux, AIX, i5/OS and zSeries Linux environments across pSeries, iSeries, xSeries, zSeries, BladeCenter and OpenPower. In addition, the IBM Director Agent can be used to manage certain non-IBM Intel-compatible systems.

Features
bk-bullet.gif Open, standards-based design and broad platform and operating support enable customers to manage heterogeneous environments from a central point.
bk-bullet.gif Gathers detailed inventory information about your computers, including operating system, memory, network adapters and hardware.
bk-bullet.gif Proactively tracks and monitors the health of your systems and notifies you if there is a problem.
bk-bullet.gif Integrates with Tivoli® Enterprise, Tivoli NetView, CA Unicenter, HP Openview, Microsoft® SMS, Microsoft® Operations Manager (MOM), BMC Patrol and NetIQ.

What's new
bk-bullet.gif Lighter footprint to become productive faster and help streamline deployment
bk-bullet.gif Choice of three degrees of management functionality that provide the amount of hardware management you desire. Choose from agent-less or zero footprint, core hardware services and full IBM Director Agent.
Agent-less Management (Level 0): discovery, system attributes, power control, basic inventory and remote session on Linux
Core Services (Level 1): Level 0 plus Event Log, Event Action Plans, hardware status, platform specific inventory, Update Assistant, and Upward Integration
IBM Director Agent (Level 2): Level 1 plus all remaining IBM Director tasks
bk-bullet.gif Even broader operating system support to provide more consistent management of multiple platforms. IBM Director 5.10 broadens its platform coverage to include: Windows, Intel Linux, Power Linux, AIX, i5/OS and zSeries Linux environments across pSeries, iSeries, xSeries, zSeries, BladeCenter and OpenPower. (Features supported on each platform may vary.)




 
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