Hardware Status

Use the Hardware Status task to view status information about managed-system hardware or to specify that IBM® Director ignore all or certain hardware events for a managed system.

IBM Director Console provides an overview of managed-system hardware status. The Groups pane contains three hardware-status groups identified by distinct icons:
  • Hardware Status Critical
  • Hardware Status Information
  • Hardware Status Warning
Figure 1. IBM Director Console displaying hardware-status groups
IBM Director Console displaying hardware-status groups
When a managed system generates a hardware event, IBM Director adds the system to the applicable hardware-status group. If a system generates multiple events with different severity levels, IBM Director adds the system to the group that reflects the most severe event. For example, if a managed system generates both a warning and a critical event, IBM Director adds the managed system to the Hardware Status Critical group. When you click a hardware-status group, the managed systems in that group are displayed in the Group Contents pane. The applicable hardware-severity icon is displayed next to the managed system.
Hardware status information also is presented in the lower-right corner of IBM Director Console, below the ticker tape.
Figure 2. IBM Director Console with hardware-status icons located in the bottom-right portion
IBM Director Console with hardware-status icons
located in the bottom-right portion
The icons for the hardware-status groups are displayed, along with the number of managed systems that are in the hardware-status groups. If a hardware-status group does not contain any managed systems, its icon is unavailable.
Icon Hardware
Status icon
Supported IBM Director objects Level-1 and Level-2 managed systems
Supported operating systems

For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations This task is supported (although the support might be limited) whenever out-of-band events generated by a service processor or in-band events generated by CIM are supported on a server.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task
  • CIM→System
  • MPA
Related tasks
Clearing hardware-status events
Disabling hardware-status events
Enabling hardware-status events
Viewing hardware-status-group information
Viewing hardware-status information for a managed-system
Related reference
Hardware Status window

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