This topic provides information about new features and enhancements
in IBM Director 4.22.
IBM Director 4.22
adds the following new features, functions, and enhancements:
Alert Standard Format 2.0 on Linux® systems
IBM Director 4.22
adds support for Alert Standard Format (ASF) 2.0 on the following servers
running Linux:
- xSeries® 206
(32-bit operating systems only)
- xSeries 226
(32-bit and EM64T operating systems only)
Alert Standard Format on Windows® x64 systems
IBM Director 4.22
adds support for ASF on the following servers that are running Windows x64
operating systems:
- xSeries 226
- Intellistation A-Pro
BladeCenter™ options
IBM Director 4.22 contains the following
enhancements:
- Support for
BladeCenter LS20
- Support for the QLogic iSCSI Expansion Card
- Support for the Cisco Systems Fiber Intelligent Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Module (IGESM). This switch is also known as the Cisco Fiber IGESM.
- Clarification about support for installing IBM Director Server on
a blade server.
IBM Director 4.22
supports installing IBM Director Server on
a blade server and using that instance of IBM Director to
manage the BladeCenter unit.
Previously, if you wanted to use IBM Director to
manage a BladeCenter unit,
you needed to install IBM Director Server on
a non-blade server.
Refer to the IBM Director 4.22
Release Notes for more information.
IBM® TotalStorage®
IBM Director 4.22 adds support for IBM TotalStorage DS4000
series storage systems. This support is provided by new storage managed objects,
which are IBM Director managed
objects that represent storage-related devices.
IBM Director 4.22
also adds support for launching IBM DS4000 Storage Manager from IBM Director Console.
Refer
to the IBM Director 4.22
Release Notes for more information.
Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE)
The Java Runtime
Environment (JRE), version 1.3.1, in IBM Director 4.22
has been upgraded to service level 8.
Operating systems for IBM Director Agent
IBM Director 4.22 adds support for
installing
IBM Director Agent on the
following operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 4.0, for systems with Intel® x86
processors
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, version 4.0, for systems with Intel EM64T
or AMD Opteron processors
- VMware GSX Server, version 3.1 and 3.2. For a list of the supported guest
operating systems, see the IBM Director Hardware
and Software Compatibility document.
- Windows Server
2003, Datacenter x64 Edition
- Windows Server
2003, Standard and Enterprise x64 Editions
- Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition
Scalable systems support for xSeries 460 servers
IBM Director 4.22
adds support for scalable systems and scalable partitions configured on xSeries 460
servers (Scalable Systems Manager 4.20 does not provide support for this server).
Refer
to the IBM Director 4.22
Release Notes for more information.
ServeRAID™ hardware
and software
IBM Director 4.22
adds support for the IBM ServeRAID-8i
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Controller. It also contains an updated ServeRAID Manager task, which
is based on the stand-alone version of ServeRAID Manager
8.0. This ServeRAID Manager
task can manage SAS RAID array configurations.
Upward Integration Modules (UIMs)
IBM Director 4.22
adds support for Upward Integration Modules (UIMs) with HP OpenView 7.01 on
supported Windows and Linux operating systems.
For the most recent information about hardware or software support,
including operating system support that has been added to a specific version
of IBM Director after its initial
release, see the IBM Director Hardware
and Software Compatibility document. You can download the PDF file
from the IBM Director support
Web page at www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/ibm_director/.