What's new in IBM Director 5.10
- 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® Systems
Management Server (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.
- Streamlined, modular installation allowing you to be up and running
in under 10 minutes with the components and tools you want. The installation
is also designed to be lighter to limit the impact on network traffic and
to not require rebooting your system when an update is applied.
- 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 tools.
- Accessibility enhancements to make it even more usable for people
with disabilities. The design changes for accessibility in IBM Director 5.10
ensure compliance with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Even broader operating system support to provide consistent management
of multiple platforms. IBM Director 5.10 broadens its platform coverage to include:
Windows®, Linux®, Linux for
Power, AIX®, i5/OS™ and zSeries® Linux environments
across System
p5®, pSeries®, iSeries™, xSeries®, System
z9®, zSeries, BladeCenter and OpenPower™.
- Optional extensions to IBM Director are available for customers
who want additional capabilities from a consistent, single point of management
to help enable maximum availability and optimal server throughput, utilization
and performance. These extensions include Capacity Manager, Remote Deployment
Manager, Software Distribution Premium Edition and Application Workload Manager.