The standard IBM Director installation provides tasks that you can use alone or in combination to work with managed objects in your systems-management environment. Managed objects include, but are not limited to, Level-0, Level-1, Level-2 managed systems, SNMP devices, BladeCenter management modules, platforms, and network devices.
Icon | Task | What it does |
None | Active Console Viewer | View who is currently logged in to the IBM Director Server. Start the Active Console Viewer to display a list of all active consoles attached to the server, which includes the user ID logged in, the host name of the system that the user logged in from, and the date and time the user logged in. The window is automatically updated as users log into and log out of the server. |
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Asset ID | View lease, warranty, user, and system information, including hard disk drive serial numbers, system serial numbers, and system board serial numbers. You also can use Asset ID to create personalized data fields to add custom information. |
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CIM Browser | View detailed information in the CIM layer. |
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Configure Alert Standard Format | Configure Alert Standard Format (ASF) on managed systems that contain ASF-capable network interface cards (NICs). |
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Configure SNMP Agent | Configure SNMP devices and agents for communication in your IBM Director environment. |
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Discovery | Identify and establish connections with all managed objects in the IBM Director environment. The management server sends out a discovery request and waits for responses from all managed objects. The managed objects listen for this request and respond to the management server that sent the request. |
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Event Action Plans | Specify actions that are performed in response to events that are generated by a managed object. |
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Event Log | View details about all events or subsets of events that have been received and logged by IBM Director Server. You can view all events or view events for a managed object or by filter criteria. |
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External Application Launch | Add applications to the IBM Director Console Tasks pane. You can add third-party applications, scripts, and command-line commands to the Tasks pane so you can start them from IBM Director Console. |
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File Transfer | Send files from one location to another and to synchronize files, directories, or drives. The File Transfer task is a secure alternative to FTP. |
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Hardware Status | View details about all events or subsets of events that have been received and logged by IBM Director Server. You can view all events or view events for a managed object or by filter criteria. |
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Inventory | Collect data about the hardware and software that is currently installed on the managed objects in your network. |
None | Mass Configuration | Runs a single task on a group of managed objects. |
None | Message Browser | View messages sent to IBM Director Console as a result of an event action plan. The Message Browser is displayed automatically whenever a message is sent to the management console. You can choose to be notified in this manner when an event occurs by configuring an event action plan with the Send an Event Message to a Console User event action. |
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Microsoft Cluster Browser | View the structure, nodes, and resources that are associated with a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster. You can determine the status of a cluster resource and view the associated properties of the cluster resources. The Microsoft Cluster Browser does not display the status of a cluster as a whole but displays the individual cluster resource statuses. |
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Network Configuration | View and edit settings for Ethernet adapters, IP addresses, Domain Name Systems (DNS) configurations, Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) configurations, Windows domains and workgroups, and modems of a managed system. |
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Process Management | Manage individual processes on managed systems. Specifically, you can start, stop, and monitor processes and set up process monitors to generate events whenever applications change state. You can issue commands on managed systems also. |
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Rack Manager | 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. |
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Remote Control | Manage a remote system by displaying the screen image of the managed system on a management console. You can cut, copy, and paste text on both the managed system and the management console. |
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Remote Session | Run command-line programs on a remote managed system. Remote Session creates less network traffic and uses fewer system resources than the Remote Control task and therefore is useful in low-bandwidth situations. |
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Resource Monitors | View statistics about critical system resources, such as processor, disk, and memory usage. With resource monitors, you also can set thresholds to detect potential problems with managed systems or devices. When a threshold is met or exceeded, an event is generated. You create event action plans to respond to resource-monitor events. You can apply resource monitors to individual managed systems and devices and to groups. |
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Scheduler | Run a single noninteractive task or set of noninteractive tasks at a later time. You can specify an exact date and time you want the task to be started, or you can schedule a task to repeat automatically at a specified interval. Scheduled tasks are referred to as jobs. |
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Server Configuration Manager | Create or update server configuration profiles.
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SNMP Browser | View and configure the attributes of SNMP devices, such as hubs, routers, or other SNMP-compliant management devices. This task is useful for SNMP-based management, troubleshooting, or monitoring the performance of SNMP devices. |
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Software Distribution (Standard Edition) | Import applications and data, build a software package, and distribute the package to IBM Director managed systems. With IBM Director Software Distribution (Standard Edition), you can import only software that is distributed by IBM and build a software package that uses only the Director Update Assistant wizard. |
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System Accounts | View and change user and group security profiles on managed systems. |