Complementary solutions for comprehensive management
Overview
IBM Director's open design point and support for industry standards helps management vendors offer customers comprehensive systems management solutions that work together in a seamless, complementary fashion. The result is more choice and more capability from a consistent, single interface.
Upward integration
IBM Director enables you to make the most of your existing IT management structure by upwardly integrating with other popular systems management offerings. IBM Director Upward Integration Modules (UIMs) not only protect your investment in existing management software, they also potentially add value to these products by surfacing more detailed hardware information and tools. And because UIMs enable you to manage from the same familiar console with more robust tools, you'll save on staff retraining.
In addition to IBM extensions, IBM Director extensions from partners are also available for customers who want to do more and do it from a familiar, consistent, single point of management - the IBM Director Console. These tools complement IBM Director's capabilities and provide more choice on how best to tackle the challenge of managing IT assets.
