IBM Systems Management solutions for Power Servers

IBM Systems Director Express Edition

IBM Systems Director Express Edition provides an affordable foundation for systems management and all IBM Power servers are shipped ready and entitled to leverage this offering. It provides the integrated tools needed to efficiently visualize and communicate the relationships of physical and virtual systems that are discovered, monitor their health, define and receive threshold alerts, and update system firmware and operating environments. Built-in automation capabilities enable IT administrators to schedule updates and configuration changes to proactively avoid problems and reduce the administrative burden of routine maintenance.

Benefits

• Reduce IT costs with faster problem identification improving the time and effort to identify, troubleshoot, and fix problems
• Improve system availability with proactive monitoring of key components and system resources
• Simplify management with a single intuitive user interface that consistently manages physical and virtual server resources as compared to using multiple disconnected point products

Features:

The Systems Director Express Edition provides:

• Automated discovery and topology views to simplify troubleshooting across physical and virtual server and storage resources
• Heterogeneous virtualization management across Power servers running AIX®, IBM i, and Linux workloads
• Simplified deployment, installation, and update processes
• Automatic reporting of hardware problems and collection of system service information for monitored systems
• Single-system platform-level management for AIX and IBM i operating environment configuration
• Launch-in-context integration with the Hardware Management Console
• Easy to learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials, and integrated help