In addition to the standard IBM Director installation, you can add extensions to IBM Director. Extensions are tools or plug-ins that extend the functionality of IBM Director. Extensions can be free or available for purchase.
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BladeCenter Management | Configure ![]() |
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Capacity Manager | A resource-management planning tool that you can use to monitor critical resources, such as processor usage, hard disk capacity, memory usage, and network traffic; identify current or potential bottlenecks for an individual server or a group of servers; generate performance-analysis reports and recommends ways to improve performance and prevent diminished performance or downtime; and forecast performance trends. |
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Electronic Service Agent | Monitor your xSeries servers
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Hardware Management Console | View the servers and hardware resources that are managed by the HMC for IBM eServer i5 and eServer p5 models, perform power control, and launch management tools. |
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Remote Deployment Manager | Remotely perform configuration, deployment, and retirement operations on both IBM and non-IBM systems. You can use RDM to update system firmware, modify configuration settings, install operating systems and applications, back up and recover primary partitions, and securely erase data from disks. |
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ServeRAID Manager | Configure, monitor, and maintain ServeRAID adapters or controllers that are installed locally or remotely on servers. You can view information that is related to controllers, arrays, logical drives, hot-spare drives, and hard disk drives. Also, you can view configuration settings and events and locate defunct hard disk drives. |
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Software Distribution (Premium Edition) | Import applications and data, build a software package, and distribute the package to IBM Director managed systems. |
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System Availability | Analyze the availability of a managed system or group. You can view statistics about managed-system uptime and downtime through reports and graphical representations. |
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Virtual Machine Manager | Manage both physical and virtual machines from a single console. With VMM, you can manage both VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server environments using IBM Director. VMM also integrates VMware VirtualCenter and IBM Director for advanced virtual machine management. |
None | Web-based Access | View managed system information, change alert standard format (ASF) alerts, change system settings and configurations, and more. When you install Web-based Access on a managed system, you can access IBM Director Agent and view real-time asset and health information about the managed system from a Web browser. This feature is supported only on Windows 32-bit operating systems. |
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z/VM Center | Provision Linux systems on virtual hardware that is based on real System z9 and zSeries® hardware and the z/VM hypervisor. |