To start the Rack Manager task, in the IBM Director Console Tasks
pane, drag the Rack Manager task onto a managed system or group.
The
left pane displays the Topology view by default. You can change the left pane
view by clicking the list above the left pane. Four views are available:
- Topology
- Displays the Racks tree, which contains any racks that have been created,
and the Floor tree, which contains all managed systems and devices that have
not been added to a rack. A BladeCenterâ„¢ unit is displayed as a Chassis tree.
Expanding a Chassis tree displays all blade servers
in that chassis.
- Components
- Displays the predefined components that are available for association
and for inclusion in a rack.
- Cluster
- Displays clusters and cluster members, if any cluster components exist.
If there are no cluster components, this option is disabled.
- Multi-Node Systems
- Displays complexes, partitions, virtual nodes, and I/O expansion units,
if any exist. If there are none, this option is disabled.
Information in all of these views is displayed in a tree
structure.
The information in the right pane can be displayed in two
ways:
- Rack view
- The right pane is subdivided into two subpanes. The information in the
upper-right subpane displays rack information graphically. For example, if
a rack component has a hardware-status alert, the rack component is outlined
in red (for critical alert), yellow (for warning alert), or blue (for informational
alert). The lower-right subpane displays the properties of the component that
is selected in the upper pane or the left pane. If the inventory-collection
function of IBM® Director
does not recognize the managed system or device that is selected in the left
pane, Unknown is displayed for some of the properties that
are displayed in the lower-right pane.
- Table view
- The right pane displays rack information, such as position in rack, hardware
status, and state, in a table structure.
To view the rack information graphically, click .
To view the rack information in table structure, click .