Use the Electronic Service Agent (IBM Director Extension Edition)
to monitor your xSeries servers and BladeCenter
products for hardware errors. Hardware errors that meet certain criteria are
reported to IBM. Electronic Service Agent also administers hardware and software
inventory collections, and reports inventory changes to IBM. All information
sent to IBM is stored in a secure IBM database and used for improved problem
determination.
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Supported IBM Director objects | Level-2 managed systems Note: You can use
the Electronic Service Agent (Standalone Edition) to monitor Level-0 and Level-1
managed systems. The Standalone Edition is not integrated into IBM Director
Console. You can download this edition of the product from the Electronic
Service Agent Web page at http://www.ibm.com/support/electronic.
Click xSeries for the applicable information.
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Supported operating systems |
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Availability | Extension to the IBM Director product. You can download the extension from the IBM Electronic Service Agent Web page. |
Required hardware or hardware limitations | Designed specifically for use on xSeries servers and ![]() |
Required software |
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Required protocols | HTTPS for connecting to the Internet. |
Required device drivers | No |
Mass Configuration support | No |
Scheduler support | Yes |
Files associated with this task | None |
Events associated with this task | Yes, for a detailed list of events see the Electronic Service Agent documentation. |