Network Management Summary page

The Network Management Summary page in IBM® Systems Director provides an overview of your network devices.

Introduction

Use this page to view status and usage of network devices in your environment, to link to network management tasks, or to find more information about your network environment.

Network Management is part of IBM Systems Director. It provides basic network A separate product, IBM Systems Director Network Control 1.1, provides advanced network management functions for network devices, including discovery, inventory, health and status monitoring, and configuration of network devices and network topology. When you download, install, and begin using IBM Systems Director Network Control, you are granted an evaluation license. Once the evaluation license expires, you must purchase a license in order to continue using the optional management function. For more information about IBM Systems Director Network Control, click Try IBM Network Control on the Network Management Summary page.

Fields

Status
Status chart
A pie chart represents the status of your network devices. To see your resources based on status, click one of the links in the list or its corresponding section in the pie chart.

There are four status categories, represented by icons:

Error icon
Critical
Warning icon
Warning
Information icon
Informational
Ready icon
OK
Devices with no inventory collected
Number of discovered network devices for which inventory has not been collected. Click to open a table view.
Common tasks

Displays some of the most common network management tasks. You can select a task name to get started toward your goal.

System discovery
Use the system discovery task to identify systems at a specific network address or range of addresses.
Advanced system discovery
Use advanced system discovery to identify and manage a specific type of resource. Advanced system discovery is helpful when you want to limit your discovery using criteria that you specify.
Manage

Select a group of devices to manage.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet switches
Displays all discovered switches that have Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) forwarder functions. Click to open a table view.
Ethernet switches
Displays all discovered Ethernet switches except FCoE switches. Click to open a table view.
Common tasks

Displays some of the most common network management tasks. You can select a task name to get started toward your goal.

Monitors
Open the Monitors page. Retrieve the real-time status and quantitative data for specific properties and attributes of systems.
Thresholds
Open the Thresholds page. View and manage performance thresholds for systems.
Event Log
Open the Event log page. All events for managed network systems are displayed.
Automation Plans
Open the Automation plans page. Use event automation plans to automate tasks based on received events.
Configure and Automate
Deployed Ethernet network templates
Indicates number of Ethernet-type templates deployed in your environment. Click to open a table view.

Deployed Ethernet network plans
View plans configuration plans with Ethernet templates deployed in your environment.
Common tasks

Displays some of the most common network configuration and automation tasks. You can select a task name to get started toward your goal.

View and apply Ethernet network templates
Click to view and work with all Ethernet configuration templates.

View and apply Ethernet network plans
Click to view and work with all plans that contain an Ethernet template.