System Availability

Use the System Availability task to analyze the availability of a managed system or group. You can view statistics about managed-system uptime and downtime through reports and graphical representations.

System Availability can identify problematic managed systems that have had too many unplanned outages over a specified period of time, a managed system that has availability data that is too old, or a managed system that fails to report data to IBM Director Server. When a system-availability report is generated, managed systems that meet the criteria that you specify as being problematic are flagged as such. You can run the System Availability task on a managed system or group immediately or schedule a System Availability task using the Scheduler task.

Icon System Availability icon
Supported IBM Director objects Level-2 managed systems
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. You can download the extension from the IBM Support Web site at www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/ibm_director/.
Required hardware or hardware limitations Designed specifically for use on xSeries and Netfinity servers.
Required software To use the function that identifies a managed system as problematic, IBM Director (version 4.1 or later) System Availability Agent must be installed on the managed system.
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support Yes
Files associated with this task
  • (Windows only) The System Availability task uses information from the system log file; a damaged, missing, or full system log file affects this task. If you clear the system log file, all system-availability information is lost.
  • (Linux only) The System Availability task uses information from the /var/log/messages file.
  • IBM Director Server stores system-availability reports in the IBM\Director\Reports\System Availability directory on the management server. You can change the location where IBM Director Server stores system-availability reports in the Settings window.
Events associated with this task System Availability

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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