IBM Systems Director 6.3 Best Practices

Basic management tasks

This chapter covers best practices for the basic management tasks that are available in IBM Systems Director. These tasks include how to perform discovery; how to collect inventory on discovered resources; how to deploy agent, driver, and firmware updates; how to manage hardware events and other miscellaneous tasks.

The following topics are covered:

•4.1, “Discovery” on page 78

•4.2, “Inventory” on page 86

•4.3, “Updates” on page 104

•4.4, “Event management” on page 143

•4.5, “Hardware Management Console and AIX Launch-in-Context” ...