BladeCenter Management

Use the BladeCenter® Management task to configure eServer BladeCenter chassis, management modules, and network devices; start a command-line interface to the management module, start a Web application to view BladeCenter product settings and information, or start vendor software to manage your switches or other network devices.

BladeCenter Management has the following subtasks:
BladeCenter Configuration Manager
Create or update a BladeCenter chassis configuration profiles.
Network Device Manager
Starts vendor software to manage your switches or other network devices. Depending on the device, a Telnet window, Web interface, or other software interface is started.
Note: This subtask was previously called Switch Management launch pad.
Launch Web Browser
View BladeCenter chassis information via the management module Web page.
Note: You cannot access this task in the Tasks pane. Instead, right-click the managed object on which you want to use the task and select the task from that menu.
Launch Command Line Interface
Starts the Management Processor Command Line Interface (MPCLI) against the selected BladeCenter management module.
Note: You cannot access this task in the Tasks pane. Instead, right-click the managed object on which you want to use the task and select the task from that menu. For documentation of the MPCLI, refer to http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-54214&loc=en_US.
Icon BladeCenter Management icon
Supported IBM® Director objects
  • (For BladeCenter Configuration Manager) BladeCenter Chassis and Physical Platform managed objects. Also, Ethernet, Fibre, and Infiniband switch modules which are represented in the Groups pane as both Remote managed objects and SNMP device managed objects.
  • (For Network Device Manager) Ethernet, Fibre, and Infiniband switch modules which are represented in the Groups pane as both Remote managed objects and SNMP device managed objects.
  • (For Launch Web Browser) BladeCenter Chassis managed objects
  • (For Launch Command Line Interface) BladeCenter Chassis and Physical Platform managed objects
Supported operating systems

For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Extension to the IBM Director product. The standard IBM Director product installation offers this extension as an optionally installed feature.
Required hardware or hardware limitations BladeCenter chassis, management modules, network devices, and blade servers.
Required software (For BladeCenter Configuration Manager) If you use the option to deploy operating systems to your blade servers, Remote Deployment Manager is required.
Required protocols Telnet
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No, but the BladeCenter Configuration Manager subtask provides a feature where you can apply profiles created in the BladeCenter Configuration Manager against one or more managed objects at a time.
Scheduler support Yes, you can schedule to apply profiles created in the BladeCenter Configuration Manager against one or more managed objects.
Files associated with this task (For BladeCenter Configuration Manager) An XML file for importing and exporting BladeCenter chassis configuration profile information.
Events associated with this task
  • BladeCenter Configuration
  • Most MPA events

For detailed events information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

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