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IBM Upward Integration Modules for VMware vSphere and Microsoft System Center enables powerful platform management for IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex System servers
IBM Upward Integration Modules for VMware vSphere and Microsoft System
Center
Provides platform management of IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex System servers through VMware vCenter or Microsoft System Center tools
Preserves vCenter / System Center user experience
Can be used to provide basic management of IBM infrastructure – or can complement IBM management tools (Flex System Manager, Systems Director)
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Did you
know …
IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) for VMware vCenter
UIMs enable powerful management capabilities for System x, BladeCenter and Flex System servers through VMware vCenter
Customer can continue to use VMware vCenter as their management console or can use VMware vCenter as their virtualization management tool to complement Systems Director / Flex System Manager for infrastructure management
VMware customers can manage Platform Power & Cooling Metering Hardware error / failure monitoring Inventory, configuration and firmware
updates Automate relocation of virtual workloads in
response to predicted host system failures without disruption
Platform power capping/ throttling Rolling Updates Cluster Monitoring
IBM servers managed through familiar vCenter interface
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IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) for Microsoft Systems Center
UIMs enable powerful management capabilities for System x, BladeCenter, and Flex System servers through Microsoft Systems Center
Customer can continue to use VMware vCenter as their management console or can use VMware vCenter as their virtualization management tool to complement Systems Director / Flex System Manager for infrastructure management
Microsoft customers can manage Hardware monitoring OS deployment System firmware and configuration
update Power monitoring and management Virtual machine management for their System x,
BladeCenter, and Flex System servers, through Microsoft Systems Center
IBM servers managed through familiar System Center interface
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IBM Upward Integration for VMware vSphere
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IBM Upward Integration for VMware vSphere is a plug-in for the VMware vCenter management environment.
IBM Upward Integration for VMware vSphere enables powerful platform management for IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex System servers through VMware vCenter
UIM Provides an integrated entry for IBM servers in VMware vSphere management environment. Customer can continue to use familiar VMware vCenter as their management console.
– Dashboard– Dynamic System Analysis– Events & Alerts– Firmware update– Advanced System Settings– Power & Cooling mgmt– Predictive Failure Based VM Migration
IBM Upward Integration for VMware vSphere Overview
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UIM components Free download content on IBM VMware UIM web site
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-VMWARE– IBM Upward Integration Installer – 90 day evaluation – Installation and User’s guide– Release notes– Provider bundle for ESXi4.x– Provider bundle for ESXi5.x
For fee content on IBM Passport Advantage– IBM upward integration license installer– IBM upward integration license installer user’s guide
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InstallationNote: UIM Server and vCenter server are physically the same host
3. IBM Customized Image or Provider bundle for ESXi4.x or Provider bundle for ESXi5.x
1. IBM Upward Integration Installer2. IBM Upward Integration License Installer
For VMware vCenter 5.1 and above, you can choose to access the plug-in with vSphere client or vSphere Web client (Recommended)
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IBM Upward Integration License Installer The License Installer allows users to perform the license registration process on manageme
nt servers in your Infrastructure. Which provides all premium IBM Upward Integration functionality that is only available to licensed users after 90 day trial expires.
The License Installer comes with a command-line Windows utility that performs the primary licensing functions after installed, which are:
– adding a license entitlement to the local management server.– querying the current license entitlement state of the local management server– removing a license entitlement from the local management server
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Cluster Overview
Collects and analyzes cluster inventory information and health status to assist with the operation and management of the hosts and the cluster
Provides a snapshot view of the cluster including the total number of IBM hosts and non-IBM hosts, overall health status of the IBM hosts, resource usage of disk, memory, cpu etc.
Provides basic information of the cluster hosts, host access status and IMM access information
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IMM discovery
Provides out of band (OOB) management of your IBM servers using IMMv2 on the vSphere web client
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Rolling System Update
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Non-disruptive system update which automate vMotion driven host evacuationprior to installing the update to avoid workload downtime:
1. Put the system in maintenance mode and evacuate all VMs to other available hosts in the cluster via vMotion
2. Update firmware and restart to take effect
3. Take the host out of maintenance mode to accept VMs
4. Process is repeated for the next system until all systems have been updated.
vCenter APIvCenter API
virtual machine
virtual machine
virtual machine
vCenter/UIM
View In Animation Mode
Firmware update
* Built in automation plans are Future capability* Built in automation plans are Future capability
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Rolling System Update – Task manager Task manager helps you manage rolling update tasks. A task contains all of the information and options for a rolling update. To access Task manager, select a vmware cluster, and navigate to rolling update page by Manage -> IBM Upward
Integration ->Rolling Updates, then click Task Manager in the left menu list;
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Rolling System Update – Create task Step1 : Select hosts and updates
– All the hosts in current cluster display on the left and are organized by machine type – Available and installed firmware versions for each machine type and host are listed on the right– Select a host to view available firmware from the right and choose the updates you want to apply– If a machine type is selected, the selection of firmware is applied to all the hosts that have this machine type
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Rolling System Update – Create task Step2 : Select update options
– Update Parallelization specifies the number of hosts that can be updated concurrently. The default is 1.
– Reboot after update specifies whether to reboot the host after updates are applied
– Force downgrade specifies whether to update firmware if the installed version is newer than the one you selected.
– Schedule specifies when to initiate the task.
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Rolling System Update – View task report On Task manager page, click the task status link to open Rolling Update Task Report view. The
table
below lists the status for tasks, hosts, and firmware.
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Automate workload evacuation in response to Predicted Failure eventvia vMotion
A physical system hosting VMware virtual servers issues a predictive failure analysis event which is received by UIM
UIM responds with an admin defined automation plan for the affected virtual servers
The plan automatically migrates the virtual servers from the failing server by calling vMotion
ESXi virtual server
ESXi virtual server
ESXi virtual server
PFA
vCenter/UIM
View In Animation Mode
vCenter APIvCenter API
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Dashboard The Dashboard displays an overview of the host status including:
Basic System Information System Health Summary
Collects system diagnostic data
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System Information (Dynamic System Analysis)
Dynamic System Analysis collects and analyzes system information to aid in diagnosing system problems, collected information includes: Hardware inventory
Vital product data and firmware information
Installed applications and hot fixes
Device drivers and system services
Network interfaces and settings
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Events & Alerts
The Events and Alerts function collects System Health information and displays hardware events and power throttling alerts:
Support all hardware events including PFA Support power throttling alerts
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Firmware update The firmware update function applies firmware updates to your ESXi system:
Support online firmware update
Support both IBM UXSP and individual firmware update
Support firmware update from IBM site and local repository
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Power & Cooling management
The Advanced System Settings provides the ability to view and change the current system settings on the host : Monitor the power consumption, thermal, and fan speed and show trending information
Power capping sets the upper limit of power consumption
Power throttling allows you to receive warning or critical alerts when power consumption exceeds the values you set
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Power and Cooling – Viewing Power\Thermal\Fan History
You can customize the duration and intervals for each of these charts.Notes: The longest duration is one year.
In each of the history charts, you can:Use mouse wheel to zoom in/out of the charts, and use drag and drop to move a chart.
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Predictive Failures
IBM Upward Integration for VMware vSphere allows you to set management policies against the server based on a hardware predictive failure alert. It evacuates VMs from the server or notifies you based on defined policy when predictive failures detected.
The Policy and Rules page allows you to add, edit, and delete a rule which defines the conditions and corresponding actions being executed on the target server.
The Predictive Failures page allows you view predictive failure alerts from the server and the triggered policy history.
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Predictive failure management Automate relocation of virtual workloads in response to predicted host system failures
without disruption: Support setting management policy based on predictive hardware failure Support 4 predictive failure alert coving power supply, hard disk and sensor Automatically evacuate VMs from the server in response to predictive failure to protect
workload View predictive failure alerts from the server and the triggered policy history
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Predictive Failures – Policy and Rules
Four Predictive Failure Alerts:– Power Supply failure predicted– Power Unit Predictive Failure– Sensor predictive failure asserted– Array Failure Predicted
Two actions:– Migration
• evacuates all of the VMs from the server. • Provides a message log
You could select one or more conditions to form your rule, and each rule can only have one action: migration or notify.
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Predictive Failures – Policy and Rules
You can define one or more rules for the managed esxi host
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Predictive Failures – Event log and Action History All Predictive failure events comes from the endpoint are listed in the Event log table.
When the conditions of a rule are met, the defined action of the rule is launched on the managed endpoint. All of the triggered rules and action results are listed in the Action History table.
Note: Migrate action Status displays as “Success” or Failed. A Notify action record has no status information, this record just indicts this action was successfully trigged.
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Configuration Configuration tab provides the ability to view and change the current system settings on the
host : Support online system setting
Support settings for IMM, uEFI, and the Boot Order
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IMM discovery The IMM Discovery function provides out of band (OOB) management of your IBM servers using
IMMv2 on the vSphere web client. This functionality can assist you with managing your IBM host and lower the risk cluster hardware problems by monitoring hardware events using IMM or setting Predictive Failure policies.
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Upward Integration Module for Microsoft Systems Center
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IBM Microsoft Upward Integration History
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ITCU Enablement
SMS 2005
MOM 2005
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System Updates
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SCCM DCM
System Updates
SCOM MP
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Microsoft System Center Overview
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Microsoft System Center is an umbrella of multiple products
Marketing as Dynamic Datacenter:– Deliver Service Health and Performance– Automate Deployment and Management of
Servers– Support Compliance and Manage Change– Consolidate Server Through Virtualization– Deliver Datacenter Business Continuity
Microsoft created an eco-system for System integrators, vendors and OEMs to develop integration module for System center.
SCA – System Center Alliance. IBM is a member of the marketing and technical alliance. ~ 100 enterprise partners.
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IBM UIM for Microsoft System Center - Feature Overview
Mgmt Server UIM Products Prerequisites Functions
SCCM
IBM Deployment Pack (OSD)PRAID;
ASU;
* to create custom OS image with IBM drivers based on a standard PE image;
* to configure RAID/IMM/UEFI/Disk/Volumn/Partition settings ;
•to deploy the image and settings to the target x servers;
IBM System Updates
WSUS (separate install);
CA (separate install, WS2012R2);
UXSPI;
* to install/update the firmware and driver of IBM x servers with SCCM and WSUS;
IBM Configuration Pack (DCM)
ASU(manually install on clients, or deploy via SCCM);
* To capture IMM/UEFI settings from one x server
* To conduct compliance check on IMM/UEFI
* To configure IMM/UEFI settings (WS2012)
IBM Inventory Tool DSA;
•Periodically pull FW/driver/firmware/option/CPU/RAM /BIOS/UEFI/IMM inventory into and the option card Information (LSI, Qlogic, Brocade, Broadcom, Mellanox, Emulex)
SCOM IBM HW MPDirector PA (IB, separate install);
CMM/IMM (OOB)
* Inventory (IB, OOB)
* Monitoring (IB, OOB)
* Alert (IB, OOB - PFA Mgmt)
* Power Capping (OOB)
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IBM UIM for Microsoft System Center – Component Stack
Platform AgentsDirector AgentVendor Providers
Platform ToolsDSA, UXSPI, Scripting ToolkitUXSP/individual updatesVendor Tools
Platform ESWUEFI, IMM, AMM and CMM
PureFlex / System x server
Scripting Toolkit (ASU, PRAID)
IMM uEFI AMM …
SCCM
UXSPI + Updates
Director AgentOther CIM Providers
DSA
SCOM(HW Mgmt Pack)
SCVMM
(HW PRO Pack)
Inventory OS DeploymentUpdatesHardware Health(Agent)
CMM
UIMUIM++++
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IBM UIM for Microsoft System Center - Architecture
IBM UIM for MSIBM UIM for MSIBM UIM for MSIBM UIM for MS
PureFlex / System xPureFlex / System xPureFlex / System xPureFlex / System x
UIM in planUIM System Center ToolsCenter/Director/FSM/IMM…
Windows OS
SCCM
System Updates
Deployment Pack
Configuration Pack
Inventory Tool
IMM uEFI AMM CMM
Windows Scripting Toolkit
WinPE + Drivers
UXSP / Updates
UXSPI ASU DSA
SCOM AgentSCCM Agent Director AgentToolsCenter CIM provider
SCVMMSCOM
PRO Pack
Hardware Management
Pack
AMM MP
Windows system MP SNMP
Deploy Windows OS
Update firmware and driver
Assess IMM/UEFI compliance
Collect Inventory
H/W Inventory, Alerts andComponent Health
…
CMM MP
IMM MP
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SCOM Management Pack Discover, monitor and manage server/client End-to-end monitoring for the enterprise IT
environment Support monitor Chassis/blade and IBM server's
health, and integration into the SCOM console. For System:
Hardware component: processors, memory, network adapters, storage, management controllers, power supplies, fans, temperature sensors, and voltage sensors.
System management software: IBM Director Agent, IPMI driver, IBM IPMI Mapping Layer, and ServeRAID™ Manager Level 1 Agent
Blade chassis: Cooling Modules I/O Modules Management Modules Media Modules Power Modules Storage Modules
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Active Pro Alerts
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SCCM 2012 - Collect Hardware Inventory
1. Open the SCCM console.
2. Expand Assets and Compliance> Overview> Devices.
3. Right-click the devices on the right panel. Select Star and then click Resource Explorer.
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SCCM 2012 - Collect Hardware Inventory Continued
4. Expand Resource Explorer> Hardware History, then select the resource, the information will be shown on the right panel.
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IBM Hardware Management Pack - Flex System Computer Nodes
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IBM Hardware Management Pack - System x Power Data Chart
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IBM Hardware Management Pack - Launch CMM Web Console
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IBM Hardware Management Pack - Launch FSM Web Console
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IBM Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager Pro Pack
Provides health information for the physical servers hosting virtual machines while managing Hyper-V or Virtual Server environments with SCVMM
Monitors the health of select hardware components on IBM System x and BladeCenter x86/x64 blade servers hosting the virtual environment
Provides advisory PRO tips in the event of existing or predictive hardware problems that warrant VMM administrative operations
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IBM UIM support for MS SCCM IBM System Updates
Enable seamless update management for IBM System x or BladeCenter x86 blade servers. Acquires IBM system firmware and device driver information and publishes updates onto Microsoft Windows Server Update Services..
IBM Deployment Pack (OSD)Configure IBM hardware components prior to deploying Windows OS. The IBM Deployment Pack completes the end-to-end deployment scenario in environments where IBM-specific configuration steps are required.
IBM DCM PackEnable to generate IBM specific configuration settings and assess the compliance on IBM server in SCCM DCM.
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IBM UIM for Microsoft System Center - System Updates
Download/import updates from IBM site or local site1
3Admin approves update distribution, updates automatically deployed.UXSPI will be deployed to client machine at first, the uxsp update and individual update will be deployed through UXSPI.
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Main functions of update publishing tool:1) Query/Download updates 2) Pack the update and publish update to WSUS3) Manage published updates
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Update 3
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IBM System Updates – Main Frame
Click Home page, you could do:– Setup Wizard– Go to My Machines– UXSPI Upgrade
Click All Updates to view and manage updates by machine type
Click My Machines to add/remove your machines
Click the Action menu, you could:– Do UXSPI upgrade and check the
latest supported machines– Generate update comparison report– Remotely view the deployment result
on endpoint
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IBM System Updates – My Machines
Add/remove my machines by machine type
Start the actions to check update from remote, or import from local or reload from repository.
Through “Check Latest Machines” to check the latest UXSPI and supported manchies.
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IBM System Updates – All Updates
All Updates to show the updates list managed by machine type
Click Actions, you could: – Check/download Updates
on remote
– Check/expire Updates on WSUS
– Reload/Import/Publish Updates on local
– Create sequence
– Delete updates
Click the menu View->Show Updates Column ->Version on IBM Site, you will show/hide the information of update on IBM Web Site.
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IBM Deployment Pack – OS Deployment
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Desired Configuration Management (DCM) Pack
Key features include:Support for authoring uEFI/IMM configuration packs for IBM System x or BladeCenter x86 blade serversThe ability to import configuration packs to MS SCCM and assigned with SCCM client collectionsThe ability to view compliance result through the SCCM consoleSupport to capture uEFI/IMM setting from IBM system and generate related configuration pack.
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Configuration – Load system settings Click Manage → IBM Upward Integration → Configuration Loading might take a while and settings for different IMM version are displayed once loading
completed.
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Configuration – View Boot Order The values of boot order settings are displayed based on the last refresh. The last update date and time is displayed above the left column. The left column shows the optional device, and the right column shows the current boot order.
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Configuration – Refresh Boot Order Click Refresh button to get latest setting value for this section. Refresh button turns to Cancel when refreshing. If it is clicked, refreshing stops and nothing
is going to change.
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Configuration – Change Boot Order To change the order, you can move a boot order option up or down and between the two columns, by
clicking the corresponding buttons. Click Save to apply your change. A failed icon is displayed to the right of Refresh button if failed or
nothing if succeed.
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Configuration – View IMM Settings Click a link(e.g. IMM Port Assignments) in the left pane. The values of the settings are displayed based on the last refresh. The last update date and time is
displayed to the right of Refresh button.
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Configuration – Refresh IMM Settings Click Refresh to get latest advanced system settings values for this section. Links in the left pane are
disabled. If Cancel is clicked during refreshing, refreshing stops and nothing is going to be changed.
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Configuration – Change IMM Settings Changed settings display asterisk. on the right. Before you enter any information, a prompt showing the requirements is displayed. If the information you entered does not match the requirements, place the cursor over the text string to
view the description.
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Configuration – Change IMM Settings Enter the new value and click Save. The change is executed on the endpoint. If the change is successfully executed, the succeeded symbol is displayed.
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Configuration – Change IMM Settings If the change is not successfully executed, the failed symbol is displayed. To view detailed information about why the setting change failed, place the cursor over the symbol.
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Configuration – Change IMM Settings The setting change result for each setting is displayed as a single setting result.
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Configuration – View uEFI Settings Some settings, such as uEFI settings, are only supported on a certain machine type or firmware
version. If your host does not support a setting, it would be disabled to indicate this setting is currently not
supported on your host.
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UIM for Microsoft SCOM Premium features
IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center has several premium features that require an activation license. The following additional features are fee-based and require the purchase of an activation license on a per managed endpoint basis. Activation licenses can be purchased by contacting either your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. These features offer the ability to:
Establish Out of band - In-band (OOB-IB) communication using reflection to synchronize the information obtained out of band (using SNMP) and in-band (using OS).Launch a Flex System Chassis CMM Web Console from the Operations Manager Console.Discover a Flex System Manager (FSM) device and launch an FSM Console in the Operations Manager Console.Monitor Flex System Chassis and Chassis modules using both SNMP v1 and v3.
*This feature requires installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is 255.0.Launch a Windows IMM Web Console server from the Operations Manager console. *This feature requires installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is 255.0.Utilize Active Power Management and Monitoring on uEFI and IMM System x servers and blades running Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 with IBM Director Platform Agent v6.2.1 or later. You can monitor and manage overall system power usage and generate alerts when power consumption rises above predefined consumption thresholds.Customize and set power consumption thresholds for Power Monitoring alerts.
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UIM for Microsoft SCOM Premium features (cont.)
Set and enable power capping thresholds that manage maximum power consumption wattage.
Monitor the power data of client System x systems by viewing the System X Power Data Chart.
Reflect the health of BladeCenter x86/x64 modules to the BladeCenter x86/x64 blade servers affected by those modules. BladeCenter and Blade hardware health correlation and event propagation provides BladeCenter specific hardware health condition monitoring under the Windows health explorer view.
Enable the Hardware Management Software Configuration Advisor for IBM Systems (SW Configuration Advisor) program, which analyzes software dependencies of the IBM Hardware Management Pack on a managed Microsoft Windows system. The program is run from the Operations Manager management server. SW Configuration Advisor detects the presence of the IBM Hardware Management Pack software dependencies, and makes appropriate configuration recommendations.
Ability to remotely power on and off blade servers using the Operations Manager console. Discover the Integrated Management Module (IMM), and correlate it with the host. Set the predictive failure alert (PFA) policy to IMM for Brickman base Systems.
Note: All of the features listed above are available when the licensed feature level is at least 3.0, unless version 5.0 is noted for a particular licensed feature level.
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UIM for Microsoft SCCM Premium features
IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center has several premium features that require an activation license. The following additional features are fee-based and require the purchase of an activation license on a per managed endpoint basis. Activation licenses can be purchased by contacting either your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. These features offer the ability to:
Deployment Pack:Ability to automatically import the System Enablement Pack
Desired Configuration Manager - Configuration Pack:Export IBM System configuration item to SCCM Console:
The ability to import configuration items to SCCM Console and assign them to SCCM client collections.Author IBM System configuration data:
The IBM System configuration data is composed of IBM configuration items, IBM Configuration Setting Collections and IBM configuration settings. In this release, the IBM System configuration data scope is IMM/uEFI settings.Support the common settings of IMM/uEFI:
The IBM Configuration Pack Editor supports some common settings of IMM/uEFI that can help you author IBM System configuration setting.
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UIM for Microsoft SCCM Premium features (cont.)
Export IBM System configuration data to a IBM Configuration Pack:
The IBM Configuration Pack contains configuration items and Setting Collections in a .cab file and up to DCM standards. This IBM Configuration Pack can be imported into the DCM server.
Export IBM System configuration data to a configuration description:
The configuration description is an XML file that describes the configuration data. You can share and edit configuration data: you can export IBM configuration data to a configuration description, or a configuration description can be imported into the IBM Configuration Pack Editor.
Import IBM System configuration description:
You can import a configuration description file, which can contain one or more IBM configuration items and Setting Collections.
*All of the above listed features for DCM require installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is 255.0.
Inventory Tool: Provide ability to configure SCCM server to collect IBM hardware inventory of
Drivers, IMM configuration and options (such as, LSI, Qlogic, Brocade, Broadcom, Mellanox, Emulex).
*This feature requires installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is 255.0.
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UIM for Microsoft SCCM Premium features (cont.)
System Update Tool:Check for the latest updates on the IBM website for all or selected updates for a supported machine type.Provide detailed information about available updates on the IBM website. This includes: general information, installation information, and platform information.Provide detailed information on the Windows Server Update Services WSUS updates, including general information and specific packaging information.The Generate Updates Comparison Report provides a function for you to export updates to a CSV or a TXT file.Using the System Updates tool, you can remotely view a journal of update deployments for the endpoints.Allow updates to be installed as a downgrade. All published updates with the same update name will be expired.
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Links IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?Indocid=SYST-MANAGE IBM Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center:
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFix?product=ibm%2FStorage_Disk%2FFlex+System+V7000&fixids=IBM_Storage_Management_Pack_for_Microsoft_SCOM_v2.2.0&source=dbluesearch&function=fixId&parent=Storage%20Node
IBM ToolsCenter:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=TOOL-CENTER IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center v4.0 Announcement Letter:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/649/ENUSA12-1039/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
IBM System x Upwards Integration Modules for VMware vSphere:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-VMWARE IBM System x Upwards Integration Modules for VMware vSphere v1.3 Announcement Letter:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/649/ENUSA13-0315/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en