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IBM Director on System p5

Dino QuinteroAurelien JarryMarius Ileana

Kyoung Jeon KimOctavian Lascu

Includes installation and administration

Explains the features and benefits of centralized management

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IBM Director on System p5

March 2007

International Technical Support Organization

Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADPSchedule Contract with IBM Corp.

First Edition (March 2007)

This edition applies to IBM Director Version 5.20.

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Notices on page v.

Note: This book is based on a pre-GA version of a product and may not apply when the product becomes generally available. We recommend that you consult the product documentation or follow-on versions of this IBM Redpaper for more current information.

Contents

Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vTrademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiThe team that wrote this IBM Redpaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiBecome a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixComments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Chapter 1. Introducing IBM Director on System p5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 IBM Director environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.3 IBM Director components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.4 IBM Director capabilities on System p5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.4.1 IBM Director Server tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4.2 IBM Director Agent features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4.3 IBM Director extensions for System p5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.5 IBM Director positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.5.1 IBM Director versus Cluster Systems Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.5.2 IBM Director and Tivoli positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 2. Installation examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192.1 Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.1.1 Minimum requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.1.2 IBM Director 5.20 implementation phases on AIX 5L . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.1.3 Implementation of IBM Director 5.20 for Linux for POWER . . . . . . . 24

2.2 Installation on AIX 5L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.2.1 IBM Director 5.20 and prerequisite software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.2.2 Preparing to install IBM Director 5.20 on AIX 5L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.2.3 Installing IBM Director Server 5.20 on AIX 5L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.2.4 Installing IBM Director Agent 5.20 on AIX 5L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

2.3 Installation on Linux on POWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.3.1 Obtaining the installation files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.3.2 Installing the prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342.3.3 Installing IBM Director Server 5.20 on Linux on POWER . . . . . . . . . 362.3.4 Installing IBM Director Agent 5.20 on Linux on POWER . . . . . . . . . 37

Chapter 3. Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413.1 Hardware Management Console managed environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423.2 Integrated Virtualization Manager managed environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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3.3 Working with agentless (including SNMP) systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633.3.1 Working with SNMP on IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663.3.2 SNMP messages to IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

3.4 Using Software Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723.4.1 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733.4.2 Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743.4.3 Software Distribution (Standard Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743.4.4 Software Distribution (Premium Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Appendix A. Configuring SNMPv3 for AIX and Linux for POWER . . . . . . 87A.1 AIX SNMPv3 configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88A.2 Linux SNMPv3 configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Abbreviations and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Other publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Online resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102How to get IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Help from IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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