freed up and the cumulative effects of numerical errors have been removed. When Software
Rejuvenation is invoked within a clustered environment, cluster management failover services
(such as Microsoft Cluster Services and Microsoft Datacenter Server) may be used to gracefully
stop the offending subsystem and restart it on the same or another node in the cluster in a
controlled manner. In a clustered environment, IBM ^ xSeries servers can be set to fail
over to another server, then be reset by IBM Director without downtime. IBM Director 3.1 added a
Trend Viewer feature to graphically monitor the software aging process and an “application
culprit” list that identifies the applications most likely to be causing the aging.
y Software Rejuvenation Across Clusters - IBM Director supports the management of server
clusters including autodiscovery, load balancing and cluster configuration. Software Rejuvenation
can also be used with this tool to allow a cluster to recycle nodes to avoid downtime.
y Rack Manager - This feature offers a drag-and-drop interface for easily configuring and
monitoring rack components using a realistic visual representation of the rack and its
components as they appear in a rack environment. It also provides detailed health status
information for the rack and its elements. IBM Director 3.1 added the ability to drag and drop
objects between racks. This assists administrators with the ability to quickly locate a machine in
the rack and to get detailed health status easily.
y System Availability - System Availability accurately measures uptime and downtime for
individual servers or groups of servers, and provides a variety of graphical views of this
information. This enables you to track the improvements in your server availability in order to
validate the benefits of the systems management processes and tools. IBM Director 3.1 added
the ability to distinguish between planned vs. unplanned outages.
y Software Remote Control - IBM Director allows full graphical software remote control of any
Microsoft Windows managed station independent of having a hardware service processor. For
the same capability, our competitors require a costly hardware adapter.
y Change Client Network Settings - From IBM Director the administrator can change the Network
Configuration of any managed Microsoft node.
y Mass Configuration - This function, an extension to the IBM Director Agent, provides a three-tier
architecture used to manage configurations across large groups of workstations and servers.
With Mass Configuration you can configure large numbers of workstations and servers from a
single workstation. The Mass Configuration service also provides scheduling, conflict resolution,
logging and a robust environment for the setting of CIM properties and the invocation of CIM
methods. Mass Configuration can be used with the following Director tasks: Network
Configuration, Alert on LAN™, and Asset ID™.
y Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) Number Reporting in Inventory - Provided for the following:
RAID Drives and Tapes, CPUs, Memory DIMMs, Keyboard, System Board, CD-ROM Drive,
Floppy Disk Drive, Service Processor, Fans, and Backplanes.
y Widest support for Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts in the industry - IBM Director
supports PFA alerts for hard disk drives, memory, CPUs, fans, voltage regulator modules
(VRMs), and power supplies. Other vendors provide only limited support for PFA on fewer
components.
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