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42 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview
3.1 Features overview
The SDMC is now available as part of the IBM Systems Director platform. This
configuration provides a common appearance and navigation behavior with other
management solutions, such as with IBM Tivoli products. The SDMC
management functions seamlessly integrates with the base management
functions that come with IBM Systems Director. All platform management
functions are now managed from a single management interface.
The SDMC includes all the traditional server and virtualization management
functions provided by the latest Hardware Management Console (HMC). These
functions have the simplicity of the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
interface. SDMC provides the following high level features:
򐂰 Power Server management
򐂰 PowerVM Virtualization management
򐂰 Power Unit (Frame) Management
򐂰 POWER processor-based blades management
򐂰 SDMC appliance management
򐂰 Service and support management
򐂰 Hierarchical management
򐂰 Update management
3.1.1 Power Server management
The Power Servers are referred to as hosts or servers in the SDMC. You can
manage servers after discovering them from SDMC and requesting access to the
server. Here are some of the common tasks that you can perform to manage
your Power Server:
Discover servers and Power Units
Discovery is the process by which IBM Systems Director
identifies and establishes connections with network level
resources that it can manage. These resources include
servers, switches, or printers. SDMC supports the
discovery of Power Servers, Power Units (Bulk Power
Controller) and POWER processor-based blades.
Discovery in SDMC is a two step process compared to
the one step process (Add Managed System) in the HMC.