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What's new in version 6.1

IBM® Systems Director Version 6.1 provides many new features and enhancements. There are additional supported systems for installation and management. In addition, some functions have changed in this version and some features have been discontinued.

Hardware support

For information about hardware that is supported in this release, see the Supported IBM® systems and products.

Operating system support

IBM Systems Director 6.1 supports new operating systems and discontinues support for some operating systems that are supported in Version 5.20. For complete list of supported operating systems on each platform, see the Supported operating systems.

New operating system support

The following table lists operating systems that are supported by IBM Systems Director 6.1 server and agents that were not supported in previous releases.

Table 1. New operating systems supported by IBM Systems Director 6.1
Operating system IBM Systems Director Server Common Agent Platform Agent IBM z/VM® Manage- ability Access Point Agent11
New operating systems supported on System x® systems:
Windows® Server 2008, Enterprise and Standard Editions (supports Service Pack 1) X      
Windows Server 2008, Enterprise and Standard x64 Editions (supports Service Pack 1) X      
Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Advanced Platform, and Desktop with Workstation option, version 5.0, for AMD64 and EM64T, with Xen Kernel (Supports Updates 1 and 2)     X  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, for AMD64 and EM64T, with Xen Kernel (supports Service Packs 1 and 2)     X  
New operating systems supported on IBM Power systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.7, on IBM Power systems X X X  
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, version 5.2, on IBM Power systems X X X  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 on IBM Power systems X X X  
New operating systems supported on System z® systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4.0 Updates 6 and 7 for System z systems X X X  
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advance Platform version 5.0 Updates 2 and earlier for System z systems X X X  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM System z Service Pack 2 X X X X2
  • 1 The IBM z/VM® Manageability Access Point Agent is used by IBM Systems Director 6.1.0 to monitor the virtual machines and associated resources known as a z/VM system. The agent must be running in a virtual machine within the IBM z/VM, version 5.4 system that is to be monitored.
  • 2 IBM z/VM Manageability Access Point Agent requires SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM System z, Service Pack 2.

Discontinued operating system support

The following table lists operating systems that are supported in Version 5.20 but are not supported by IBM Systems Director Version 6.1 server and agents.

Table 2. Discontinued operating systems not supported by IBM Systems Director 6.1
Operating system IBM Systems Director Server Common Agent Platform Agent
Discontinued operating systems on 32–bit System x systems and non-IBM® x86 system:
Windows 2000, Advanced Server and Server Editions (Service Pack 3 required; Service Pack 4 supported) X X X
Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition   X X
Windows 2000 Professional Edition (Service Pack 3 required; Service Pack 4 supported)   X X
Windows Small Business Server 2003, Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2   X X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 3.0 (supports Update 9 and earlier) X X X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 3.0 (supports Update 9 and earlier)   X X
VMware ESX Server (console), versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 3.0.2 Update 1, and 3.0.3   X X
VMware ESX Server (guest operating systems), versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 3.0.2 Update 1, and 3.0.3 X X X
VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, host operating systems   X X
VMware GSX Server, versions 3.1 and 3.2, guest operating systems   X X
Discontinued operating systems on 64–bit System x systems and non-IBM® x86 system:
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition for Itanium® systems   X  
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for Itanium systems   X X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 3.0, for Intel® Itanium   X X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 3.0, for AMD64 and EM64T (supports Update 9 and earlier)   X X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, version 4.0, for Intel Itanium (supports Update 7 and earlier)   X  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Itanium Processor Family   X  
Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 (Release 2 required; SP1 supported) X X X
Discontinued operating systems on IBM Power systems:
IBM AIX 5L™ Version 5.2 TL06 Service Pack 4     X
IBM i (formerly i5/OS®), Version 5 Release 3 X X  
IBM i, Version 5 Release 4 X X  
IBM i, Version 6 Release 1 X X  
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, versions 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5 on IBM Power systems X X X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, versions 5.0 on IBM Power systems X X X
Discontinued operating systems on System z systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Mainframe Computing (supports versions 5.1 and 5.0) X X X

Databases support

  • IBM Systems Director Server V6.1 supports the following newer versions of external databases:
    • These databases are now supported:
      • DB2/Express
    • These databases are no longer supported:
      • PostgreSQL
      • Microsoft SQL Server 2000
      • Microsoft Jet DB

For complete information about supported databases, see the Supported database applications.

Functional enhancements

  • Plug-in architecture: Function has been grouped in to components, called plug-ins. These base plug-ins are provided with IBM Systems Director:
    Discovery manager
    Discovers both virtual and physical systems in your network, collects inventory data about hardware and software, and visualizes relationships to other systems in the network. This includes simple unicast discovery and more advanced discovery workflows to discover, authenticate and inventory one or more specific systems in the network.
    Status manager
    Monitors hardware status, power status, and update compliance status on discovered systems. Using status manager, you can create, view, and customize the resources and processes to monitor and generate notifications when a custom threshold is reached.
    Update manager
    Acquires, distributes and installs required firmware, device drivers and operating system updates using predefined policies and workflows. Using update manager, you can also update IBM Systems Director Server and agents and get updates to support hardware changes without an upgrade or migration of the installed product.
    Automation manager
    Automatically performs predefined actions in response to events that occur in your environment using event automation plans. Actions can include sending an email, running a task on the management server, or running a task on the system where the event was generated.
    Configuration manager
    Configures system parameters and hardware settings on systems, including BladeCenter® chassis and its installed components, in your network. You can also set up configuration manager to automatically configure newly discovered systems.
    Remote access manager
    Provides a set of integrated tools that support remote access, including remote control tools (such as Virtual Network Computing (VNC), Remote Desktop (RDP), and web-based remote control for IBM BladeCenter and RSA), hardware command line, remote command line, and file transfer tools.
    Virtualization manager
    Manages the lifecycle of your virtual resources (such as virtual servers and virtual farms) from a single interface for many of the different virtualization technologies. The virtualization tasks can be included in event automation plans.
    IBM System Storage™ management
    Provides full lifecycle management of your storage resources including discovery, status, configuration and updates.
    IBM BladeCenter and System x management
    Provides full lifecycle management of your modular System x, IBM BladeCenter Chassis, and related resources including discovery, status, configuration, updates, and virtualization.
    IBM Power Systems™ management
    Provides full lifecycle management of your IBM Power systems and related resources including discovery, status, configuration, updates, and virtualization.
    IBM System z management
    Provides the capability to discover System z systems and their associated virtual servers, and to access status information about them.
  • Simplified installation and deployment:
    • Standard and custom installation options and enhanced unattended installation streamlines the base installation of IBM Systems Director Server
    • Automatic start of IBM Systems Director Server after successful installation (Windows only)
    • Migration tool that imports custom data from a previous release.
  • Web-based user interface: A new flexible, intuitive user interface is integrated with the IBM Systems Director Server and is accessible through any supported Web browser that is connected to the management server. You no longer need to install a console. Improvements include:
    • Welcome pages to assist you with setting up IBM Systems Director Server and to determine whether actions are needed after IBM Systems Director Server is up and running
    • Resource views that list your systems and groups, show relationships between resources, and list resource properties
    • Navigation links to help you quickly find and perform tasks
    • New wizards to walk you through certain tasks, such as creating groups
    • Create and manage resource groups
    • Tutorials to help you learn how to use features and functions available with IBM Systems Director

    Some tasks have not been ported to the new Web interface but can be launched from the Web interface. These launched tasks are dynamically uploaded to the system on which the browser is running to seamlessly perform the launch-in-context of the task.

  • Online help system enhancements: A new help system is available with advanced search capabilities and an integrated table of contents. Organization and related links have also been improved. Links from the Web interface display context-sensitive help for the panel that you are currently viewing and also the full help system.
  • Discovery and inventory data collection enhancements:
    • Basic discovery to find systems with a specific network address or range of addresses
    • Advanced discovery to find systems using a discovery profile, which identifies the type of resources to discover and the discovery protocols to use, automatically authenticates discovered systems, and collects inventory data
    • Improved support for IBM Power, System z, and IBM System Storage systems
  • System status and health enhancements:
    • Scoreboard to easily monitor the health of your systems, including hardware, thresholds and compliance status
    • Dashboard to view graphical representations of live-data monitors for critical resources
    • Health summary to monitor the resources you care about most
    • LED status of System x and blade servers
    • Drill down to the root cause or problems
  • Agent management enhancements: New tasks are available to deploy, install and configure Common Agent and manage common agent services.
  • Update management enhancements:
    • Compliance policies to verify the currency of updates on systems.
    • Search capabilities for update documentation files
  • Event automation plans enhancements:
    • Simplified interface for managing event automation plans, including new wizards to easily set up email notifications or run a task
    • Common event schema for heterogeneous systems
    • New commands for managing event automation plans, event actions, event filters, and event logs
    Tip: Event automation plans were known as event action plans in the previous release.
  • Security enhancements:
    • Role-based authorization allows users to perform specific GUI and CLI tasks and access specific resources
    • Authorization through LDAP groups
    • New set of default user roles
    • Single sign-on (SSO) authentication using credentials for local and target systems.
    • Ability to specify credentials for a specific protocol or system, and to view and edit credentials on specific systems
    • New command line support for user groups, roles, and permissions
  • System configuration enhancements:
    • Integrated operating-system configurations settings for network, user administration, SNMP agent settings, and inventory data
    • Ability to create, view and edit template settings per system and integrate into a configuration plans
    • Improved support for IBM BladeCenter and IBM System Storage systems
  • Remote management enhancements: Several new tools are available for performing remote tasks, including launching Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and Remote Desktop (RDP), from the Web interface
  • Virtualization enhancements: IBM Virtualization Manager has been integrated into IBM Systems Director base suite of tools to support the discovery, health, and lifecycle tasks.
  • Platform management enhancements:
    • Support has been improved for managing your storage products, including the seamless integration of Storage Configuration Manager and the ability to launch external applications from the Web interface.
    • Ability to launch IBM Systems Director Console for AIX® from the IBM Systems Director Web interface.
    • Integration of IBM Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS into IBM Systems Director Web interface.
  • Storage management enhancements:
    • Seamless integration of Storage Configuration Manager (SCM) function
    • Ability to launch storage management application, such as TotalStorage® Productivity Center (TPC)), from the Web interface
    • Support for additional storage systems
  • Command-line interface enhancements:
    • Systems management command-line interface (smcli): The name of the command-line interface has changed to smcli. The dircli command-line interface is supported in this release for backward compatibility. All smcli commands will run using either smcli or dircli. However, to use the command syntax supported in IBM Director version 5.20 and earlier, you must set the CLILEGACY environment variable. For more information, see CLILEGACY environment variable.
    • New commands for systems, inventory, status, scheduler, user administration, automation, process management and resource monitoring commands: The command-line interface has been enhanced with new commands to support systems, inventory, status, scheduler, user administration, automation, process management and resource monitoring. For a complete list of commands, see ../cli/fqm0_r_cli_a_to_z.html.

Discontinued function

  • IBM Director base function: The following base function that was available in IBM Director V5.20 is not supported in this release:
    • License administration is not supported: License Administrator is no longer supported in IBM Systems Director. In the previous release, you used License Administration to view the total number of product licenses, the number of used licenses, and the number of available licenses.
    • Rack management is not supported: Rack Manager is no longer supported in IBM Systems Director. In the previous release, you used Rack Manager to group your systems in visual representations of rack suites.
    • Remote Control tool has been replaced: Remote Control function has been replaced with third-party tools, including Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and Remote Desktop (RDP).
    • Associations are no supported: Associations changed the organization of a group of managed objects. This is not longer supported.
    • High availability is not supported: High availability configurations are not currently supported by IBM Systems Director.
    • Microsoft Cluster Management is not supported: You can no longer monitor the status of clusters in your network using the Microsoft Cluster Browser.
    • Discontinued event actions: These event actions have been discontinued:
      • Add a Message to the Console Ticker Tape
      • Send an Event Message to a Console User
      • Update the Status of the “event” System
  • IBM Director V5.20 extensions The following extensions that were available in IBM Director V5.20 are not supported in this release:
    • Capacity Manager extension is not supported: Capacity Manager is no longer a supported extension of IBM Systems Director. Capacity Manager was a resource-management planning tool that you can use to monitor critical resources (for example processor usage, hard disk capacity, memory usage, and network traffic), identify current or potential bottlenecks, generate performance-analysis reports, recommend ways to improve performance and prevent diminished performance or downtime, and forecast performance trends.
    • Server Storage Provisioning Tool has been integrated into IBM Systems Director: Server Storage Provisioning Tool function and commands have been integrated into IBM Systems Director in the storage manager plugin. The commands are now called storage commands.
    • ServeRAID Manager extension is not supported: ServeRAID Manager is no longer a supported extension of IBM Systems Director. IBM Systems Director does perform inventory collection, monitor status, and raise events for RAID controllers.
      Tip: You can launch the ServeRAID Manager as an external application from the IBM Systems Director Web interface; however, the application does not recognize IBM Systems Director systems, groups, or clusters.
    • Software Distribution Premium Edition extension is not supported: Software Distribution Premium Edition is no longer a supported extension of IBM Systems Director. Software Distribution Premium Edition was used to import applications and data, build a software package, and distribute the package to managed systems.
    • System Availability is not supported: System Availability is no longer a supported extension of IBM Systems Director. System Availability was an analysis tool that you used to view statistics about system uptime and downtime, identify problematic systems that have had too many unplanned outages over a specified period of time, identify system that have old availability data, and identify system that fail to report data.
    • z/vm Center extension is not supported: z/vm Center is no longer a supported extension of IBM Systems Director. z/VM Center used the z/VM hypervisor to provision System z resources in form of z/VM virtual servers.
  • The dircmd command-line interface and some dircli commands are discontinued: All dircmd commands and several dircli commands that were supported in IBM Director version 5.20 and earlier are no longer supported. In most cases, equivalent functionality is implemented through commands in the smcli command-line interface. For a complete list of supported commands, see Alphabetical listing of all smcli commands.
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