Well, my manager has just assigned me the task to monitor IBM Power Servers using IBM Systems Director 6.1 for one of our larger clients. Although I would not call my self an expert when it comes to IBM Power Server, I have an adequate knowledge when it comes to IBM Systems Director. As I have been searching across the web, I have came across a nice set of IBM Videos by Nigel (Big thanks to Nigel) which show exactly how to monitor & manage IBM Power Servers using IBM Systems Director. I was able to use the same techniques to carry out my installation, so I thought I will share them here with my readers. I am hoping it will save you some research time & will easily educate you of IBM Systems Director if you are searching for a monitoring tool for your IBM Power Server, but still don’t have the budget for Tivoli which you are budgeting for next year.

You will start by installing IBM Systems Director 6. Although you don’t have to install it on Power Series & you can use any existing IBM System Director 6 to manage your Power Series, but as we are focusing here on AIX the video below show how to setup IBM Director 6 on AIX.

Installing IBM Systems Director 6 on AIX 6

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After Installing IBM Director 6, you will have to install the IBM Director 6 Common Agent on the partitions you want to monitor as showing in the video below.

IBM Systems Director 6 Monitoring AIX System

Please note these video has been originally made available for download on http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Movies. For a larger resolution & better visibility of these videos you might want to download them from there.
I hope this help. Please leave your feedback in the comments area below.