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- IBM Director Server Migration Outline
- Whether upgrading to new hardware or a new version of IBM Director, it is often desirable to bring up and test a new IBM Director Server before migrating monitoring to it. This paper describes several considerations and processes to assist in this migration. This paper deals solely with upgrading the...
- Tags: IBM Director, Migration, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-27
- VMware, IBM Director, and ServeRAID Manager
- With the growing emphasis on improved utilization and server consolidation in the data center, virtualizations, and specifically VMware, are becoming widely used. Usually the concept of virtualization is usually associated with high-end servers, such as the IBM's family of X3 servers (x3850, x3950 and their predecessors the x366 and x460)...
- Tags: IBM Director, VMware Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-31
- IBM Director on System p5
- This paper positions the new IBM Director V5.20 against the other IBM systems management products. Although IBM systems management software products include several choices as Cluster Systems Management and IBM Tivoli Management suite, and some features might seem to overlap, each product targets a specific environment. This paper will help...
- Tags: IBM Director, IBM Corp., It Services, Network Administration, Linux, Operating Systems, Networking, Software
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director
- IBM Director Version 5.10 added support for managing the IBM TotalStorage DS300 iSCSI and DS400 Fibre storage subsystems as SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification storage devices. SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA for storage devices. The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative SMI was created to...
- Tags: Storage Management, IBM Director, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., SMI-S, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-26
- Integrating IBM Director With IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- The IBM Director integration into IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides IBM Director customers with access to the complete Tivoli Enterprise management environment. IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a dynamic, end-to-end monitoring solution for proactively managing the performance and availability of the entire IT infrastructure. It monitors IT resources across the enterprise in...
- Tags: Monitoring, IBM Director, IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- White papers 2006-01-16
- Managing VMware ESX Server Using IBM Director: Version 2.5
- VMware ESX Server is virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing systems in mission-critical environments. VMware ESX Server transforms physical systems into a pool of logical computing resources. Operating systems and applications are isolated in multiple virtual machines that reside on a single physical server. System resources are dynamically...
- Tags: IBM Director, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Virtual Machine, IBM Corp., VMWare ESX, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-12-22
- IBM Director and Tools on Linux
- The purpose of this paper is to document how to first install and configure the required Linux services, then how to install IBM Director and other xSeries Systems Management Tools. This document will focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 ES Update 4, IBM Director v4.21, IBM Server Plus Pack...
- Tags: IBM Director, Tool, IBM Corp., Linux, Productivity, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Monitoring Redundant Uninterruptible Power Supplies Using IBM Director
- Most UPS monitoring software assumes the server is communicating directly with, and getting power from, only one UPS. Larger UPSes have multiple communication ports or network ports to allow multiple servers to monitor the state of the UPS. This paper will discuss and demonstrate using IBM Director to monitor UPSes...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Monitoring, IBM Director, Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, IBM Corp., Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2004-01-22
- Managing IBM eServer BladeCenter Systems With IBM Director V4.1 and Remote Deployment Manager V4.1
- This paper describes how to install IBM eServer BladeCenter using IBM Director Director and IBM Remote Deployment Manager RDM. It provides a concise set of instructions based on several existing documents and product publications. The BladeCenter has been designed as a solution rather than simply as a set of servers....
- Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM eServer, IBM Director, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2004-01-01
Additional Resources
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...
- Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
- In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia
- News items 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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