Rack Manager

Use the Rack Manager task to group your equipment in rack suites. Using Rack Manager, you can create virtual racks by associating equipment, such as managed systems and devices, networking devices, power devices, and monitors, with a rack in order to visually represent an existing rack in your environment. If the inventory-collection function of IBM® Director does not recognize a managed system or device in Rack Manager, you can associate it with a predefined component of a similar size.

You can use Rack Manager to view hardware-status alerts that occur on managed systems or devices in a rack. If a rack component has a hardware-status alert, the rack component is outlined in red, blue, or yellow, depending on the severity level.

Icon Rack
Manager icon
Supported IBM Director objects Level-2 managed systems
Supported operating systems

All operating systems supported by IBM Director. For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations Designed specifically for use on xSeries® and Netfinity® servers.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task None
Related tasks
Adding components to an existing rack
Canceling a component association
Creating and configuring a rack
Removing a rack component
Starting a component association
Starting the Rack Manager task
Related reference
Rack Manager window

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