IBM Systems Director

• Overview
• Management servers
• Agents
• Plug-ins
• Partner integration

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Technical documentation

• Technical support documents for IBM Systems Director

Information center

• IBM Systems Director V6.3.x information center
• IBM Systems Director V6.2.x information center
• IBM Systems Director V6.1.x information center

IBM Systems Director V6.3.x

• Release Notes V6.3 (144KB)

• IBM Systems Director Planning Guide (609KB)
• PDF files for installing IBM Systems Director Server
• PDF files for installing IBM Systems Director agents
• PDF files for upgrading and migrating IBM Systems Director Server
• PDF files for upgrading and migrating IBM Systems Director agents
• Systems Management Guide (3.21MB)
• Troubleshooting and Support Guide (1.15MB)
• Events Reference (1.23MB)
• Commands Reference (1.84MB)
• Hardware Command Line User’s Guide (314KB)
• Performance Tuning and Scaling Guide for IBM Systems Director 6.2 (1.08MB)

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V4.4

• Information Center V4.4
• Installation and User’s Guide V4.4 (551KB)

IBM Systems Director Network Control V1.3

• Information Center V1.3
• Installation and User’s Guide V1.3 (1.45MB)

IBM Systems Director Service and Support Manager V6.3

• Information Center V6.3
• Installation and User’s Guide V6.3 (607KB)

IBM Systems Director Storage Control V4.2.1

• Information Center V4.2.1
• Installation and User’s Guide V4.2.1 (157KB)

IBM Systems Director VMControl V2.4

• Information Center V2.4
• Installation and User's Guide V2.4 (4.93MB)

IBM PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager V2.3

• Release notes V2.3
• Information Center V2.3
• Installation and User’s Guide V2.3 (313KB)

IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment - IBM Systems Director Edition

• Information Center V7.1
• Quick Start Guide V7.1 (539KB)

Upward integration

• Microsoft System Management Solutions for IBM Servers
• UIM for CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management r11
• UIM for CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management 3.1
• UIM 6.1 for HP OpenView NNM
• UIM 6.1 for HP OpenView Operations for Windows
• UIM 6.1 for Tivoli Management Framework
• UIM 6.1 for Tivoli NetView

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Redbooks, white papers and briefs

• IBM Systems Director Discovery Best Practices (333KB)
• IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager Integration with Eaton Power Xpert Reporting (453KB)
• Implementing IBM Systems Director 6.1
• IBM Systems Director (1.50MB)
• Value Proposition for IBM Systems Director (1.13MB)
• Managing Complexity in the x86 Data Center: The User Experience
  A Comparison of IBM Systems Director, HP Systems Insight Manager, and Dell Management Console (748KB)

Analysts Papers

• IBM Systems Director and Tivoli Converge: The New IBM Systems Director 6.1 (95KB)

New ITG Paper for Cross Platform Tivoli and Systems Director

• Executive summary (411KB)
• Full paper (1.41MB)

New ITG Paper for IBM Systems Director for System z

• Executive summary (423KB)
• Full paper (1.49MB)

New ITG Paper for IBM Systems Director for System x

• Executive summary (430KB)
• Full paper (1.32MB)

New ITG Paper for IBM Systems Director for Power Systems

• Executive summary (343KB)
• Full paper (1.17MB)

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Forums

• IBM Systems Director User Forum

Wikis

• IBM Systems Director Wiki
• IBM Systems Director Best Practices Wiki

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• IBM Systems Director's YouTube Channel

• Understanding the benefits of IBM Systems Director
• Managing system access and security with IBM Systems Director
• Monitoring systems with IBM Systems Director
• Automating tasks with IBM Systems Director
• Managing storage systems with IBM Systems Director

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• IBM Systems Lab Services and Training
• IBM Training Path: System x Systems Management
• IBM Training Path: AIX Systems Management, Clustering, Internals and Cloud Computing
• IBM Training Path: System Administration for IBM i

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