IBM Upward Integration Module for Microsoft System Center. Advanced Technical Sales Jason Brunson IBM Corporation

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1 IBM Upward Integration Module for Microsoft System Center Advanced Technical Sales Jason Brunson

2 Agenda IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center Release History UIM Overview Architecture Upward Integration Module for SCOM Premium Features for SCOM UIM Upward Integration Module for SCCM Premium Features for SCCM UIM Summary and Wrap-Up 2

3 IBM Upward Integration Module Online 3

4 IBM Microsoft Upward Integration History SC 2012 Integrated Installer Integrated Installer Integrated Installer SCCM OSD SCCM OSD SCCM DCM SCCM DCM SCCM DCM SCOM MP SCOM MP SCOM MP SCVMM Pro SCVMM Pro SCVMM Pro ITCU Enablement System Updates System Updates SCCM OSD SCCM OSD SCCM OSD SMS 2005 SMS 2005 SMS 2005 SMS 2005* SCOM MP SCOM MP SCOM MP MOM 2005 MOM 2005 MOM 2005 MOM 2005* System Updates System Updates System Updates / /4/17

5 Upward Integration Module for Microsoft Systems Center Overview & Architecture 5

6 Microsoft System Center Overview. Microsoft System Center is an umbrella of multiple products Marketing as Dynamic Datacenter: Deliver Service Health and Performance Automate Deployment and Management of Servers Support Compliance and Manage Change Consolidate Server Through Virtualization Deliver Datacenter Business Continuity Microsoft created an eco-system for System integrators, vendors and OEMs to develop integration module for System center. SCA System Center Alliance. IBM is a member of the marketing and technical alliance. ~ 100 enterprise partners.

7 IBM Upward Integration Module - Feature Overview Mgmt Server UIM Products Prerequisites Functions IBM Deployment Pack (OSD) PRAID; ASU; * to create custom OS image with IBM drivers based on a standard PE image; * to configure RAID/IMM/UEFI/Disk/Volumn/Partition settings ; to deploy the image and settings to the target x servers; SCCM IBM System Updates WSUS (separate install); CA (separate install, WS2012R2); UXSPI; * to install/update the firmware and driver of IBM x servers with SCCM and WSUS; * To capture IMM/UEFI settings from one x server IBM Configuration Pack (DCM) ASU(manually install on clients, or deploy via SCCM); * To conduct compliance check on IMM/UEFI * To configure IMM/UEFI settings (WS2012) IBM Inventory Tool DSA; Periodically pull FW/driver/firmware/option/CPU/RAM /BIOS/UEFI/IMM inventory into and the option card Information (LSI, Qlogic, Brocade, Broadcom, Mellanox, Emulex) * Inventory (IB, OOB) SCOM IBM HW MP Director PA (IB, separate install); CMM/IMM (OOB) * Monitoring (IB, OOB) * Alert (IB, OOB - PFA Mgmt) * Power Capping (OOB)

8 IBM Upward Integration Modules for Microsoft System Center Component Stack + UIM SCVMM (HW PRO Pack) SCOM (HW Mgmt Pack) SCCM Hardware Health (Agent) Inventory Updates OS Deployment Platform Agents Director Agent Vendor Providers Director Agent Other CIM Providers Platform Tools DSA, UXSPI, Scripting Toolkit UXSP/individual updates Vendor Tools DSA UXSPI + Updates Scripting Toolkit (ASU, PRAID) Platform ESW UEFI, IMM, AMM and CMM IMM uefi AMM CMM PureFlex / System x server

9 IBM Upward Integration Modules for Microsoft System Center - Architecture SCCM SCOM SCVMM Deployment Pack System Updates Configuratio n Pack Inventory Tool Hardware Management Pack PRO Pack IBM UIM for MS WinPE + Drivers UXSPI ASU DSA IMM MP AMM MP Windows Scripting Toolkit UXSP / Update s CMM MP Windows system MP SNMP Deploy Windows OS Update firmware and driver Assess IMM/UEFI compliance Collect Inventory H/W Inventory, Alerts and Component Health SCCM Agent ToolsCenter Director Agent CIM provider SCOM Agent Windows OS PureFlex / System x IMM uefi AMM CMM UIM System Center ToolsCenter/Director/FSM/IMM UIM in plan

10 UIM for MS Systems Center Operations Manager Features 1

11 SCOM Management Pack Discover, monitor and manage server/client End-to-end monitoring for the enterprise IT environment Support monitor Chassis/blade and IBM server's health, and integration into the SCOM console. For System: Hardware component: processors, memory, network adapters, storage, management controllers, power supplies, fans, temperature sensors, and voltage sensors. System management software: IBM Director Agent, IPMI driver, IBM IPMI Mapping Layer, and ServeRAID Manager Level 1 Agent Blade chassis: Cooling Modules I/O Modules Management Modules Media Modules Power Modules Storage Modules

12 IBM Hardware Management Pack SCOM Windows System Module IBM Hardware Mgmt Pack BladeCenter Mgmt Module Flex Chassis Mgmt Module Director Agent SCOM Agent CIM provider Windows OS Blade Storage Module Media Module Cooling Module I/O Module Power Module Compute Node Storage Module Cooling Module I/O Module Power Module PureFlex / System x IMM uefi AMM CMM

13 Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager Pro Pack Provides health information for the physical servers hosting virtual machines while managing Hyper-V or Virtual Server environments with SCVMM Monitors the health of select hardware components on IBM System x and BladeCenter x86/x64 blade servers hosting the virtual environment Provides advisory PRO tips in the event of existing or predictive hardware problems that warrant VMM administrative operations

14 UIM for MS Systems Center Configuration Manager Features 1

15 IBM UIM support for MS SCCM IBM System Updates Enable seamless update management for IBM System x or BladeCenter x86 blade servers. Acquires IBM system firmware and device driver information and publishes updates onto Microsoft Windows Server Update Services.. IBM Deployment Pack (OSD) Configure IBM hardware components prior to deploying Windows OS. The IBM Deployment Pack completes the end-to-end deployment scenario in environments where IBM-specific configuration steps are required. IBM DCM Pack Enable to generate IBM specific configuration settings and assess the compliance on IBM server in SCCM DCM.

16 IBM System Updates UXSP A UXSP B IBM site Individual Update IBM site Update 1 Update 2 Update 3 Update 1 Update 3 Update 4 Update a Update b Update c Customer site SUAP tool UXSPI 1 Local Update Update A Update B Update C Main functions of update publishing tool: 1) Query/Download updates 2) Pack the update and publish update to WSUS 3) Manage published updates UXSPI 2 UXSP Update 1 Update 2 Update 3 Individual update Update a Client Client SCE (WSUS) Download/import updates from IBM site or local site Pack UXSPI, UXSP updates and individual update Client Client Client 4 SCCM (WSUS) 3 4 Publish updates to WSUS directly Admin approves update distribution, updates automatically deployed. UXSPI will be deployed to client machine at first, the uxsp update and individual update will be deployed through UXSPI.

17 IBM Deployment Pack OS Deployment

18 Desired Configuration Management (DCM) Pack Key features include: Support for authoring uefi/imm configuration packs for IBM System x or BladeCenter x86 blade servers The ability to import configuration packs to MS SCCM and assigned with SCCM client collections The ability to view compliance result through the SCCM console Support to capture uefi/imm setting from IBM system and generate related configuration pack.

19 Links IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center: IBM Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center: ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFix?product=ibm%2FStorage_Disk%2FFlex+Syste m+v7000&fixids=ibm_storage_management_pack_for_microsoft_scom_v2.2.0&source=dbl uesearch&function=fixid&parent=storage%20node IBM ToolsCenter: IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center v4.0 Announcement Letter: 01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/649/ENUSA /index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en IBM System x Upwards Integration Modules for VMware vsphere: IBM System x Upwards Integration Modules for VMware vsphere v1.3 Announcement Letter: 01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/649/ENUSA /index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

20 UIM for Microsoft SCOM Premium features IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center has several premium features that require an activation license. The following additional features are fee-based and require the purchase of an activation license on a per managed endpoint basis. Activation licenses can be purchased by contacting either your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. These features offer the ability to: Establish Out of band - In-band (OOB-IB) communication using reflection to synchronize the information obtained out of band (using SNMP) and in-band (using OS). Launch a Flex System Chassis CMM Web Console from the Operations Manager Console. Discover a Flex System Manager (FSM) device and launch an FSM Console in the Operations Manager Console. Monitor Flex System Chassis and Chassis modules using both SNMP v1 and v3. *This feature requires installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is Launch a Windows IMM Web Console server from the Operations Manager console. *This feature requires installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is Utilize Active Power Management and Monitoring on uefi and IMM System x servers and blades running Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 with IBM Director Platform Agent v6.2.1 or later. You can monitor and manage overall system power usage and generate alerts when power consumption rises above predefined consumption thresholds. Customize and set power consumption thresholds for Power Monitoring alerts.

21 UIM for Microsoft SCOM Premium features (cont.) Set and enable power capping thresholds that manage maximum power consumption wattage. Monitor the power data of client System x systems by viewing the System X Power Data Chart. Reflect the health of BladeCenter x86/x64 modules to the BladeCenter x86/x64 blade servers affected by those modules. BladeCenter and Blade hardware health correlation and event propagation provides BladeCenter specific hardware health condition monitoring under the Windows health explorer view. Enable the Hardware Management Software Configuration Advisor for IBM Systems (SW Configuration Advisor) program, which analyzes software dependencies of the IBM Hardware Management Pack on a managed Microsoft Windows system. The program is run from the Operations Manager management server. SW Configuration Advisor detects the presence of the IBM Hardware Management Pack software dependencies, and makes appropriate configuration recommendations. Ability to remotely power on and off blade servers using the Operations Manager console. Discover the Integrated Management Module (IMM), and correlate it with the host. Set the predictive failure alert (PFA) policy to IMM for Brickman base Systems. Note: All of the features listed above are available when the licensed feature level is at least 3.0, unless version 5.0 is noted for a particular licensed feature level.

22 UIM for Microsoft SCCM Premium features IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center has several premium features that require an activation license. The following additional features are fee-based and require the purchase of an activation license on a per managed endpoint basis. Activation licenses can be purchased by contacting either your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. These features offer the ability to: Deployment Pack: Ability to automatically import the System Enablement Pack Desired Configuration Manager - Configuration Pack: Export IBM System configuration item to SCCM Console: The ability to import configuration items to SCCM Console and assign them to SCCM client collections. Author IBM System configuration data: The IBM System configuration data is composed of IBM configuration items, IBM Configuration Setting Collections and IBM configuration settings. In this release, the IBM System configuration data scope is IMM/uEFI settings. Support the common settings of IMM/uEFI: The IBM Configuration Pack Editor supports some common settings of IMM/uEFI that can help you author IBM System configuration setting.

23 UIM for Microsoft SCCM Premium features (cont.) Export IBM System configuration data to a IBM Configuration Pack: The IBM Configuration Pack contains configuration items and Setting Collections in a.cab file and up to DCM standards. This IBM Configuration Pack can be imported into the DCM server. Export IBM System configuration data to a configuration description: The configuration description is an XML file that describes the configuration data. You can share and edit configuration data: you can export IBM configuration data to a configuration description, or a configuration description can be imported into the IBM Configuration Pack Editor. Import IBM System configuration description: You can import a configuration description file, which can contain one or more IBM configuration items and Setting Collections. *All of the above listed features for DCM require installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is Inventory Tool: Provide ability to configure SCCM server to collect IBM hardware inventory of Drivers, IMM configuration and options (such as, LSI, Qlogic, Brocade, Broadcom, Mellanox, Emulex). *This feature requires installing the 4.0 license tool; the activation version is

24 UIM for Microsoft SCCM Premium features (cont.) System Update Tool: Check for the latest updates on the IBM website for all or selected updates for a supported machine type. Provide detailed information about available updates on the IBM website. This includes: general information, installation information, and platform information. Provide detailed information on the Windows Server Update Services WSUS updates, including general information and specific packaging information. The Generate Updates Comparison Report provides a function for you to export updates to a CSV or a TXT file. Using the System Updates tool, you can remotely view a journal of update deployments for the endpoints. Allow updates to be installed as a downgrade. All published updates with the same update name will be expired.