What's new in release 4.21

This topic provides information about new features and enhancements in IBM® Director 4.21

IBM Director 4.21 adds the following new features, functions, and enhancements:
BladeCenter™ management
IBM Director 4.21 contains the following enhancements:
  • BladeCenter Deployment Wizard support for the BladeCenter Telco and the Brocade Enterprise SAN Switch Module for IBM eServer™ BladeCenter
  • Rack Manager support for the BladeCenter Telco
  • Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) configuration support for Cisco and Intel® Gigabit Ethernet Switch Modules
  • Support for managing the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) baseboard management controller in the IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20, machine type 8843 server
BladeCenter switches
IBM Director 4.21 adds support for the following BladeCenter switches:
  • Infiniband Switch Module
  • Nortel Networks Layer 2/3 GbE Switch Module
Database
IBM Director 4.21 adds support for using PostgreSQL, version 7.4 as the IBM Director database (SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 only).
General enhancements
IBM Director 4.21 adds the following new functionality:
  • Ability to launch the Web interface for service processors from IBM Director Console
  • Management Information Base (MIB) files for the IBM TotalStorage® DS300 and DS400
  • Support for viewing blue-indicator light and firmware-level information for xSeries® servers that contain IPMI baseboard management controllers
Linux® systems
IBM Director 4.21 adds support for the following features on managed systems running Linux:
  • Alert Standard Format (ASF) 2.0 on an xSeries 306 server running a 32-bit version of Linux
  • Network interface card (NIC) events
Operating systems
IBM Director 4.21 adds support for the following operating systems:
IBM Director Server and IBM Director Console
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 3.0, for Intel x86
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86
IBM Director Agent
  • AIX 5L™, Version 5 Release 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES, version 3.0, for Intel EM64T
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, version 3.0, for Intel EM64T
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 and EM64T
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM POWER™
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for Itanium Processor Family
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86
ServeRAID™ hardware and software
IBM Director 4.21 adds support for the IBM ServeRAID-7k Ultra320 SCSI controller. It also contains an updated ServeRAID Manager task, which is based on the stand-alone version of ServeRAID Manager 7.10b.
Upward integration
IBM Director 4.21 adds the following new functionality:
  • Upward integration with Microsoft® Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003
  • Ability to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with the upward-integration modules for IBM Tivoli® NetView® and HP OpenView

For the most recent information about hardware or software support, see the IBM Director Hardware and Software Compatibility document. You can download the PDF file from the IBM Support Web page at www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/ibm_director/

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