IBM Director 5.10 CD Media Pack

Director 5.10 CD Media Pack This release of the IBM industry-leading hardware management solution provides an integrated suite of software tools for a consistent, single point of management and automation. This new version of IBM Director enables customers to get started faster and be more productive with enhancements that improve ease of use by providing an even more open, integrated toolset. IBM Director's tools provide customers with flexible capabilities to realize maximum system availability and potentially lower IT costs. With IBM Director, IT administrators can view and track the hardware configuration of remote systems in detail and monitor the usage and performance of critical components, such as processors, disks and memory. IBM Director also complements and integrates with higher-level management software such as Tivoli. IBM Director's open design point and support for industry standards enables heterogeneous hardware management with broad platform and operating system support, protecting customers' IT investment. IBM Director enables monitoring and event management across a heterogeneous IT environment, including Intel® and POWER systems that support Windows®, Linux®, AIX 5L and i5/OS from a single user interface. From one access point, users can monitor system resources, inventory, events, task management, core corrective actions, distributed commands and hardware control for both servers and storage. IBM Director 5.10 has a new streamlined interface to boost productivity, a lightweight footprint for easy deployment and a software health check to take the hassle out of update management.

Features and Benefits:

-A new, powerful user interface that works the way you do. The console is customizable which allows you to decide which management tasks and what information is displayed.
-Lighter product footprint that provides more choice regarding the amount of hardware management desired and streamlines discovery and deployment of systems. Choose from agent-less or zero footprint, core hardware services and full IBM Director Agent.
-Enhanced integration with higher-level management products including Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) by complementing these applications with richer hardware information.
-Software Health Check to save time trying to determine which systems are in need of an update, helping systems run optimally with the latest system software.
-BladeCenter Chassis Configuration Manager to increase productivity and time savings by making it easier to set-up BladeCenter chassis and subsystems. It provides an integration point for BladeCenter subsystem configurations allowing you to create and read configurations for chassis component devices and broadcast configurations to multiple chassis.
-New Event Action Plan Wizard to reduce the time it takes to start monitoring the health of your servers. It is an easy to use, step-by-step guide that lets IBM Director know what you want to monitor and what action you want to take in response to an alert.
-A comprehensive, Web-based information center that provides easy access to the most up-to-date product information available.
-Lighter, faster and more powerful command line interface (CLI) for many IBM Director tasks. The new CLI is more secure and its flexible scripting capability makes it easy for customers to integrate their own.