IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview
An IBM Redbooks publication
Note: This is publication is now archived. For reference only.
Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) against the IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC). The IBM Systems Director Management Console provides system administrators the ability to manage IBM Power System® servers as well as IBM Power Blade servers. It is based on IBM Systems Director.
This publication is designed for system administrators to use as a deskside reference when managing Virtual Servers (formerly partitions) using the SDMC.
The major functions that the SDMC provides are server hardware management and virtualization management.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Installation
Chapter 3. Basic operation
Chapter 4. Making the transition to the IBM Systems Director Management Console
Chapter 5. System management
Chapter 6. Power Unit management
Chapter 7. Firmware updates
Chapter 8. Virtual Server operation
Chapter 9. IBM Systems Director Management Console management
Chapter 10. Command-line interface
Chapter 11. Schedule operations
Chapter 12. High availability and redundancy
Chapter 13. Advanced System Management Interface
Chapter 14. Service and support
Appendix A. Command-line reference
Appendix B. IBM Systems Director base functions
Appendix C. IBM Systems Director Management Console distribution details