v Built-in, menu-driven electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM) based
setup, system configuration, and diagnostic programs
v Built-in monitoring for fan, power, temperature, voltage, and power-supply
redundancy
v Error codes and messages
v Error correcting code (ECC) L2 cache and system memory
v Fault-resistant startup
v Hot-swap hard disk drives
v IBM Systems Director workgroup-hardware-management tool
v Information and light path diagnostics LED panels
v Integrated management module
v Service processor adapter for remote systems management
v Parity checking on the SAS bus and PCI Express buses
v Power managed and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
compliant
v Power-on self-test (POST)
v Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts
v Redundant Ethernet capabilities (requires optional Ethernet adapter) with failover
support
v Redundant hot-swap capability
– Cooling fans with speed-sensing capability
– Power supplies
v Remind button to temporarily flash the system-error LED
v Remote system problem-determination support
v ROM-based diagnostic programs
v Standby voltage for systems-management features and monitoring
v Startup (boot) from LAN using Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol
v System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
v System error logging
v Upgradeable microcode for POST, IMM, diagnostics, service processor, and
read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the LAN
v Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system boards, power supplies,
and SAS (hot-swap-drive) backplane
v Wake on LAN capability
IBM Systems Director
IBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the
way you manage physical and virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment. By
using industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems
and virtualization technologies in IBM and non-IBM x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for
viewing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another,
and identifying their statuses, helping to correlate technical resources with business
needs. A set of common tasks that are included with IBM Systems Director provides
many of the core capabilities that are required for basic management, which means
instant out-of-the-box business value. These common tasks include discovery,
inventory, configuration, system health, monitoring, updates, event notification, and
automation for managed systems.
The IBM Systems Director Web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent
interface that is focused on driving these common tasks and capabilities:
v Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed
inventory and relationships to the other network resources
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