Specifications

Chapter 6. Management setup

The IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis brings a whole new approach to

management. This approach is based on a global management appliance, the

IBM Flex System Manager (FSM), which you can use to view and manage

functions for all of your Enterprise Chassis components. These components

include the Chassis Management Module, I/O modules, computer nodes,

and storage.

Methods of system management, such as direct access to the Chassis

Management Module and the I/O modules, are still supported. Setup and access

to each system management method are described in 6.2, “Chassis

Management Module” on page 161.

You can manage your Enterprise Chassis more proficiently with the Chassis

Management Module and IBM Flex System Manager.

We cover the following topics in this chapter:

򐂰 IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis security

򐂰 Chassis Management Module

򐂰 Management network

򐂰 IBM Flex System Manager

򐂰 FSM initial setup

򐂰 Basic management of Power Systems compute nodes

򐂰 IBM Flex System Manager options and tasks