IBM Systems Director agent

Why IBM

IBM® SYSTEMS DIRECTOR 'tiered' AGENT SUPPORT lets you do business the way you want.

What we offer

IBM® Systems Director 6.1 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 Systems Director 6.1 allows you to choose from agentless (zero footprint), basic hardware management or the full IBM Systems Director Agent.

The IBM Systems 6.1 Director Common Agent also supports the latest industry standards and provides broad platform operating system support, simplifying the management of complex, heterogeneous systems. IBM Systems Director's 6.1 broad platform coverage includes Windows, Linux on x86, Linux on Power, AIX, IBM i, and Linux on Systems z environments across Power Systems, System x, System z, and BladeCenter. In addition, the IBM Systems Director 6.1 Common Agent can be used to manage certain non-IBM Intel-compatible systems.

Features

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

IBM® Systems Director Agent support

Common Agent

Provides a single agent management system for status reporting and operations
- Common authentication and credential management using a single agent manager
- Single, shared incoming port (firewall friendly) for management
- Increased availability using a watchdog to restart common agent, if needed
Single agent run time shared by IBM systems and Tivoli products like Tivoli Provisioning Manager that reduces agent footprint, supports shared credentials and drives discovery, inventory and other common services
Replaces the previous IBM Director 5.x Level 2 Agent while providing Seamless integration of Platform Agent

Platform Agent

Provides a subset of Common Agent functions used to communicate with and administer the managed system, including hardware alerts and status information
Improved interoperability through open standards, rather than through proprietary technologies
Firmware and driver updates and remote deployment

Agent-less Management

Agent-less managed systems are best for environments that require very small footprints and are used for specific tasks, such as one-time inventory collection, firmware and driver updates and remote deployment.