Figures 3-1 Logical layout POWER5 server lab environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Logical layout of the POWER6 server environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Summary of common administrative users created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4 Status of the collect inventory task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Provide the local directory path where the updates are stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 Update manager plug-in section available in the manage tab of the welcome page . . 3-7 Updates available to apply on existing IBM Systems Director 6.1.2 installation . . . . . . 3-8 Status of the IBM Systems Director update process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9 Displaying the version of IBM Systems Director Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10 Select the path where the Common Agent package is stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11 The message window that confirms the import of the Common Agent package . . . . 3-12 Discovering the NIM server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13 Discovery results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14 NIM server access status after an granted access request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15 Select the Common Agent 6.1.2 package that was previously imported . . . . . . . . . . 3-16 The agents page of the installation wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17 System page of the installation wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18 Summary page of the installation wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19 Status of a successful deployment of the Common Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Status of the NIM server after the deployment of the Common Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21 Summary pane of the VMControl installation wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22 Last step of the VMControl installation wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23 VMControl summary page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24 Summary page of the Agent Installation Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-25 Preparing the environment for system pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26 Discovering and collecting inventory on the storage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27 Welcome wizard to create and discover profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28 Profile properties pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29 Protocol selection pane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30 SMI-S configuration pane settings for storage management discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31 Access request pane to request access to discovered systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32 Inventory discovery pane to automatically discover inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33 Summary pane of the profile selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34 Advanced system discovery pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35 Storage subsystems discovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36 SMI-S configuration pane settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-37 Discovered switches view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-38 The report of the free space available and the disk space requirement . . . . . . . . . . . 3-39 Default installation directory of the agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40 The standard value of the HTTP port used by CIM Object Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41 The standard value of the HTTPS port used by CIM Object Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42 The default options for connecting to the fabric manager database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43 Disable the mutual authentication option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44 Do not enable the security for the agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45 Do not enable console or file logging features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46 Connection entry for the switch and the SMI agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47 Locations of the configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-48 Last step of the installation wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 18 20 35 36 36 36 37 38 39 39 41 41 42 42 42 43 43 44 45 48 48 50 51 52 54 55 55 56 57 58 58 59 59 60 61 61 66 67 67 67 68 68 68 69 69 70 70 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2010. 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