Operating instructions

54 Cisco Systems Intelligent Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module
CiscoWorks Campus Manager
Designed for operational use, Campus Manager provides layer 2 tools for configuring,
managing, and understanding complex physical and logical infrastructures.
Campus Manager enables administrators to more easily change, monitor, and control
network relationships, making them more effective in delivering business-critical and
advanced networking services to their users and customers.
5.2.7 IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager
IBM provides two software products to help you effectively manage the day-to-day operations
of your BladeCenter:
򐂰 IBM Director, which is provided for free to all IBM Intel®-based servers customers.
򐂰 Remote Deployment Manager (RDM), which is provided for a fee to clients. RDM is
integrated into IBM Director, which is a prerequisite for it.
IBM software management tools are designed to make the BladeCenter deployment and
management easier and faster. However, you can choose not to use them. In this case, you
will use the Management Module Web interface (available through a standard Web browser).
Then, you can deploy the operating systems onto the blade servers by using standard
installation methods (for example, booting from CD and running setup or performing
unattended network installations).
To fully implement the BladeCenter strategy, we recommend that you use both IBM Director
and the Remote Deployment Manager (RDM) to manage and deploy blades.
Among its other features, IBM Director manages the hardware; it talks directly to the
BladeCenter Management Module through a special protocol, called Service Location
Protocol (SLP). This makes it possible to register the BladeCenter chassis and the installed
blades into the IBM Director database. After the BladeCenter is registered into IBM Director,
the chassis and the blades can be managed from the Director console. Consequently, you
can perform all the actions that are available through the Management Module Web interface
through the Director console (except for blade Remote Console Redirection and a few
others). These include actions such as blades power on/off and hardware configuration. You
are also notified of events coming from the chassis (such as hardware health and alerts, and
blade insertion).
Conversely, RDM is responsible for deploying the operating system on brand new systems
from scratch. RDM uses the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol, a standard
feature of the network adapter that also needs to be supported by the machine BIOS. With
the PXE protocol, the server to be installed boots from the network and the RDM server
provides the basic environment to start the installation of the operating systems OS (DOS for
Microsoft operating systems, Linux® for Linux). One prerequisite is a Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, not necessarily on the same server used as the RDM
server.
IBM Director enables you to make the most of your existing enterprise management structure
by upwardly integrating with Tivoli, HP OpenView, Microsoft SMS, CA Unicenter, and BMC,
NetIQ.
For more information, visit the following Web sites:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp3776.pdf
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/xseries_sm.html