I've installed IBM Director Agent (5.10.2) on a HS20 Blade Server with SuSE Enterprise Server 9. I can connect to the agent through the Director Console and it works fine.When I stop the Director Agent on the machine and install (sucessfully) the Raid Agent (RAIDLxAg-5.10-2.x86_64.rpm-Package) I can ...
Just wondering if the IBM Director 5.20 raid and sys availability agents can be installed silently somewhat like the IBM Director 5.20 agent itself with rsp file or a switch?? looking at batching this for an install on a 150 or so servers??? ...
I am having trouble seeing items related to the raid drives or raid logical drives when viewing hardware in IBM Director. I have raid manager 9.0 installed on the IBM Director Server. I have IBM Raid Manager 9.0 on the client. What do I need to do to have the raid drives and raid logical drive show ...
i install successfully the following IBM Director 5.10 Agent packages on an eSeries 335 under Linux:dir5.10_agent_linux.tardir5.10_sysavailagent_linux.taribmsmb-5.10-1.i386.rpmserveraid_5.10_agent_linux.tarAll services start successfull when the machine boot. The lsmod command shows IMHO that the ne ...
I have a windows system 8840-11Y with additional ServeRAID-6M controller.Problem:IBM Director (5.20) said via email " The battery has exceeded normal operating temperature: controller 1 ( IBM ServeRAID 6M #504D4D1F Physical Slot: 3 )".....No error messages on IBM Director.No error messages on ServeR ...
I have some troubles to install the IBM Director ServeRAID Manager V8.25 Console in the IBM Director version 5.10.10:I have installed the IBM-Director Console on a Win-XP PC (SP2). After that, I've tried to install the IBM-Director-ServeRaid-Console. Everything is fine, no Erros while the installati ...
We have a Windows 2000 server with SP4. Its an IBM X345 and we installed IBM Director 5.10.1. When this is installed it causes the server to slow down a lot and causes lots of disk i/o. When its stopped the server is fine.The products installed are 3 installs on IBM Websphere so not sure if there is ...
Is there a sequence to installing IBM Director and all the components? I wanted to install the agents so I can see what's going on my server. I do not have enough servers to justify a large IBM Director setup.I can run the "Directory Agent browser", but I can only get basic info. I cannot get things ...
HiWe try to run IBM Director Agent 5.10.3 and do not succeed. After adding the system to IBM Director and collecting inventory it's grey out. Also we are unable to add the RSAII as physical platform to IBM Director.x346 8840-4RG, BIOS 1.14, BMC 1.20, RSAII KPEP25AVMware ESX Server 2.5.4 build-36502I ...
we have a critical problem on the managed machines .We have IBM Director Server is 5.10 and Agents are 5.10 also two managed machines still 4.21 version.I run a failure test on one of the managed machine, but the "hardware status" did not change the status from normal to critical on the console pane ...
I want to send notification (email) when there is a crash with a RAID...Isn't possible with serveRAID manager in Ibm Director ? It is possible to centralized all systems (who have raid) and send notification when it is necessary ? ...
I have a number or xseries 3850 server running Windows 2003 AMD64 Enterprise sp2 running IBM Director Agent 5.20. When I try a remote Control session to these servers a I get the normal screen saying Active but the Screen is totally black and that's it no screen activity at all. I can get a remote s ...
I'm running IBM Director 5.20 + ServeRAID Manager 8.40 extensions on over 60 servers, most of which are x336 servers with the onboard LSI SAS controller in RAID 1 configuration. The Windows machines seem to be working fine, but on just about all of the RedHat ES 4 Linux machines, Director is reporti ...
IBM x3550Machine type: 7978 Machine model: AC1 RSA II Firmware: v1.06 (GFEP25A, 07-12-07)I want to setup Alert Notification within a RSA II. The goal was not to use IBM Director for alerting, but just use the RSA II. However, thru testing we discovered that we do not get RAID information (rebuild, m ...
We would like to setup the Director agent and the RSA II adapter to forward hardware alerts (RAID, Power, Disk, and so on). We run SLES 9.x (64-bit) and moving toward SLES 10.x (64-bit), but we keep getting confused on what is needed. The steps below are the ones we think we need, and install order? ...
I currently have IBM Director installed (5.20.1) and have deployed the ibm director 5.20.1 agent and serveraid 8.40 agent to my test x3550 and x460 servers which both contain ServeRAID 8-l Raid controllers. If I query the controller status through IBM Director using the ServeRAID Manager plugin, it ...
We have set up new servers and installed the last IBM Director (version 2.20). We have been using IBM Director before. To test the new installation, we have set up a testserver, witch is a x226 (type: 8648 -2DG). The testserver has two PWS. The testserver also has an RSA-2 card. The operating system ...
When I use DSA tool it is possible to get much information about HDD:s like serialnumber.When I look in IBM Director inventory data using "Inventory query browser" the information regarding serialnumber is empty in "RAID Disk Drives".On one server model and its ServeRAID adapter the information is v ...
It's been awhile since I have messed with IBM Director so forgive me if this is a stupid question. I have installed the lastest DIR Agent on a windows machine with no errors, but when I logon to that server I only see an option for Server Raid Manager in Programs. Why doesn't the IBM Dir Agent show ...
Long time reader, first time poster, be gentle.I'm just setting up IBM director to monitor about 50 server some win2003 most are netware 6 and 6.5 .First some advice, IBM director with ServeRAID could not need any of my raid controllers on my 6.0 netware servers (Service pack didn't matter), the mes ...
We are seeing errors in the \opt\ibm\director\log\RaidEvtA.log "The number of recoverable disk errors reported exceeds the maximum that the disk can report: controller 1, channel 0, SCSI ID 0"Is the RAID Agent supposed to send these to the Director Console Server? How is that configured? ...
Hi! One of my e236 systems wouldn’t report some hardware failures to IBM Director v. 5.20. Agent version is also 5.20. So far I tested power source and hard drive. It did pick up network card failure after unplugging NIC. In Windows application log I see events pertaining to the NIC card. Such as ...
I am running IBM director server on an X-series 3850 machine.When I perform an inventory query I get memory, NIC and other hardware information back,However I do not get:- any CPU/processor information, although I have 4 CPUs in the machine- I dont get information about a ServeRAID 8i card I have in ...
When I install a IBM Director Agent on a computer. I don't know on IBM Director Console I saw that agent have locked. And When right click that, there isn't Remote control and some other option. And I've already install Server Raid Agent for this agent computer. But on IBM Director Console I didn't ...
all, I'm attempting to create an environment where I can quickly and easily provision servers and firmware update them using the tools in the subject line. I have Director 5.20.1 and RDM 4.40.1 and the process i'd like to use is as follows:1) Physical server build, connect to network and PXE boot to ...
all, I'm attempting to create an environment where I can quickly and easily provision servers and firmware update them using the tools in the subject line. I have Director 5.20.1 and RDM 4.40.1 and the process i'd like to use is as follows:1) Physical server build, connect to network and PXE boot to ...
Good morning.I have installed IBM Director Agent 5.20 dir5.20_agent_linux.sh on my ESX 3.0.1 server and wish to be able to poll information like Raid Status, Power Supply Status, Fan Status and Temp Status using SNMPGet. I can't seam to be able to poll the device locally for this information when do ...
HiWe have an issue with VMware ESX Server 3.5, Director 5.20.2 and RaidAgent 9.00. RaidManager is showing/monitoring the internal disks. The 'external' RAID/disks on the EXP400 are not visible/monitorable (see attachment).The hardware used is x445 or x3850 with a IBM ServeRAID 6M attached to a EXP40 ...
so far I tested my installation ( IBM Director Server 6.1 on AIX 6.1 on POWER5, managing only POWER6 machines ) and I have experienced some problems I want to discuss. May one have some clue on it:1) I decide to install Common Agent on each server. After installing , I had an Advanced Discovery for ...
I have installed servraid 9 director extension on 5.20 and 5.20.2 agents and Management server. Installs fine raid logs show no errors. But when I right click on the managed node in the ibm director console drag the servraid task on to a managed node it says task not supported. Ibm director is not i ...
We are running IBM Director v6.1 Server on MS Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard Edition 32-bits SP2, all of our clients are running Level 2 Agents 5.20.31 on RHEL4U7 and RHEL5U1, I have several POWER6 9117-MMA LPARs running AIX 5L version 5.3 TL08 SP3 (AIX is fine), I have installed lsi_mr_hhr-00.02.G ...
We have a couple of IBM xSeries-Servers. I want them to monitor with SNMP-only (Raid, Fan, System-Health). Is this possible? How can I monitor them without installing the IBM-Director-Agents? Which MIB's do I need? Or do I need a the Director-Agents to get the system-specific-information? I'm not su ...
I'm trying to get informations about an IBM server running IBM Director Agent. I would like to know if power is OK, my LSI 1030 Raid is OK, my disks are OK ?My server is a HS20 running RHEL 5, IBM Director Agent 5.20.31 and lsi_mr_hhr_00.05.0504When i use snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.4 ...
I am trying to integrate the SGTK 2.21 in TPMfOSD IBM Director plug-in. After completing the instruction to prepare the SGTK directory I build a new environment the wizard complain that the RAID tools like praid.exe and more are not included in the directory and the build fails. When I try SGTK 2.1x ...
Windows 2003 R2, IBM Director 6.1.2, comman agent 6.1.1 on target systemAfter 2 weeks of extensively searching the web and all the IBM Director forums i still have no answer for the most simplist of questions, which has been posted multible times over the web but as of yet, has not been answered. Ca ...
I'm kinda new to the solution of implementing IBM Director Agents on ESXi servers while connecting 'em to SCOM 2007 Management Console and I have a big problem here...I recently installed IBM Director Agent 6.2.1 on my ESX and it was found by our IBM Director, but just not by SCOM. When I tried to f ...
I am having a very strange problem. I have a set of servers the same model installed with the same IBM Director Agent. A few of them are reporting full hardware data (Using SNMP Queries) and others not.The Server model is Xsystem x3550, MS Windows 2003 sp2.We are using IBM Director common Agent 6.2. ...
IBM Director is a free, downloadable system admin tool for systems management.Looking for input from someone who uses or has evaluated Director.Qualifications: pSeries sys admin company size: less than 5,000 employees (total) also have some storage experience need not be an expert must be an IBM cus ...
IBM Director is a free, downloadable system admin tool for systems management.Looking for input from someone who uses or has evaluated Director.Qualifications: pSeries sys admin company size: less than 5,000 employees (total) also have some storage experience need not be an expert must be an IBM cus ...
I am a software developer on IBM's Deep Computing Visualization team in Dublin, Ireland. I am currently looking into cluster systems management with the aim of potentially including such management with our product. I have a few questions on integrating CSM with IBM Director (to enable use of CSM th ...
Go ahead and share your experiences with IBM Director.This forum is intended to address and discuss configuration and experiences with IBM Director. I would suggest that you try to provide as much detail as possible when posting, as this will paint a clearer picture of your question. Providing infor ...
We use Ibm Director 4.21 with x235 Series servers. i don't take alerts recently. i don't modify Ibm Director settings.Why i dont take alerts.Help please. ...
During the update from v 4.12 I got the error, that the install could not create the 'IBM Director Server service'. Now this service is gone. Reinstalling do not recreate the service.What to do ? ...
I know that the newest version of IBM Director support AIX/pSeries but are all the functions supported currently for xSeries supported for pSeries? If not, what is not currently deployed? ...
I need to migrate our current IBM Director (4.12) to the most current version. I am giong to be installing the most current version on a new server and do not want to upgrade the software but rather migrate the database from the existing server and import it to the new server. Would an upgrade from ...
How can i take nic status reports (model, speed ..etc) with Ibm Director v4.22 at all Ibm x235 Servers.Please Help. ...
I have installed IBM Director 5.1 Server in an existing 4.22 environment (all Windows 2000/2003). When I add the old 4.22 Director Agents to the 5.1 Director Server I can see x345 (with ISMP) as physical platforms. I reinstalled an x345 (with ISMP) with W2K3 and installed the full Director Agent. No ...
I´m new to IBM director and have some questions:can i monitor my ibm-machines with ibm director?i want to check services, cpu and stuff and generate messages if something is wrong.i´ve created resource monitors, can i schedule them?i want to check eventlog for warning and failures and generate mes ...
I downloaded and installed IBM Director 5.1.The press announcement I read stated that Virtual Machine Manager would be updated too. But I actually can found VMM 2.0 for Director 4.22.Is this component release posticipated?Thank you Alessandro Perillihttp://www.virtualization.info ...
Get the following error when installing IBM.Director.DirectorCimCor on AIX5.3. errmsg: failed to load default handlers and subscriptions.instal: Failed while executing the ./IBM.Director.DirectorCimCore.post_i script. ...