What's new in release 4.22

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:

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:

BladeCenter™ options

IBM Director 4.22 contains the following enhancements:

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:

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/.

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