This topic describes the Rack Manager window in IBM® Director.
Menubar
- File >
- New Rack…
- Displays the Add Rack dialog where you can enter
the Rack Name, Rack Description and select the Rack Type from a pull down
selection list.
- Find Rack…
- Displays the Find a Rack dialog. Select a Rack
system from the selection list.
- Exit
- Exits the Rack Manager dialog.
- Edit >
- Delete
- Removes the selected component.
- Associate
- Displays the Associate dialog where you can select
a system from a list to associate with the selected component.
- Disassociate
- Removes the association with the selected component.
- Add
- Displays the Add To Rack dialog where you select
from the Select Rack pull down and enter a Slot Number representing where
the component is located in the rack.
- View >
- Rack View
- Displays the rack in a graphical mode.
- Table View
- Displays the rack information in a tabular mode.
Toolbars
- Refresh icon
- Refreshes the Rack Manager window with updated inventory information.
- Rack view icon
- Toggles the view from tabular view to graphical.
- Table view icon
- toggles the view from graphical view to tabular.
Fields
- Left pane
- The left pane has a list box from which you can select topology, components,
clusters, and multinode systems. These selections are used to create, configure,
and manage the managed systems and devices of a rack.
- Topology
- The Topology view contains managed systems and devices that appear in
the Rack list or the Floor list. A system or device appears beneath a rack,
and racks are organized alphabetically. All systems or devices that are not
members of a rack are visible in the Floor list. A BladeCenter™ is displayed as a Chassis,
and if you expand it all the blade servers for that chassis appear. If the
rack or rack components have not been created, then the Topology list will
place all the managed systems and devices associated with the targeted managed
system or device in the Floor list.
Click on a rack or a rack component
to display property data in the right pane. If you right-click the rack or
rack component, you can select an IBM Director task.
You also use the right-click menu to associate or disassociate the component
from a particular rack. Each rack component that is associated with a managed
system or device will be monitored for any changes in status. Rack components
that are not associated with a managed systems or devices will not be monitored
and will always appear in the normal state.
- Components
- The Components view displays all components, by category, that you can
use to configure racks. Expand a category to view the components of that type.
For each component, component information is displayed so that you can determine
which component to use. Measurements for components are shown in US, metric
units, and EIA (U) units.
- Clusters
- The Clusters list displays clusters and cluster members, if any cluster
components exist. Otherwise, this option is disabled. Components not included
in a cluster are considered independent. Although a component might have an
independent classification, it might be in a rack. Selecting a cluster highlights
all the devices in the cluster that are currently on display in Rack Manager.
- Multi-Node Systems
- The Multi-Node Systems list displays complexes, partitions, virtual nodes,
and I/O expansion units, if any exist. Otherwise, this option is disabled.
- Right pane
- The right pane either identifies rack information as a listing (Table
View) or as a graphical representation of a rack with managed components (Rack
View). The Rack View includes a pane that provides resource information which
displays properties for each rack and its components when selected.