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© 2013 IBM Corporation IBM Upward Integration Module for Microsoft System Center™ Advanced Technical Sales Jason Brunson
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IBM Upward Integration Module for Microsoft System Center™
Advanced Technical Sales
Jason Brunson
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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
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IBM Upward Integration Module Online
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?Indocid=SYST-MANAGE
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IBM Microsoft Upward Integration History
2014/4/17
2006 2007 2009 2010 2012/2013 2008
ITCU
Enablement
SMS 2005
MOM 2005
SMS 2005
MOM 2005
SCOM MP
System
Updates
SMS 2005
MOM 2005
SCOM MP
SCCM OSD
System
Updates
SMS 2005*
MOM 2005*
SCOM MP
SCCM OSD
Integrated
Installer
SCVMM Pro
SCCM DCM
System
Updates
SCOM MP
SCCM OSD
Integrated
Installer
SCVMM Pro
SCCM DCM
System
Updates
SCOM MP
SCCM OSD
2011
Integrated
Installer
SCVMM Pro
SCCM DCM
System
Updates
SCOM MP
SCCM OSD
SC 2012
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Upward Integration
Module for Microsoft
Systems Center Overview & Architecture
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Microsoft System Center Overview
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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.
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IBM Upward Integration Module - Feature Overview
Mgmt Server UIM Products Prerequisites Functions
SCCM
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;
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;
IBM Configuration Pack (DCM)
ASU(manually install on clients, or deploy via SCCM);
* To capture IMM/UEFI settings from one x server
* 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)
SCOM IBM HW MP Director PA (IB, separate install);
CMM/IMM (OOB)
* Inventory (IB, OOB)
* Monitoring (IB, OOB)
* Alert (IB, OOB - PFA Mgmt)
* Power Capping (OOB)
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IBM Upward Integration Modules for Microsoft System Center – Component Stack
Platform Agents Director Agent
Vendor Providers
Platform Tools DSA, UXSPI, Scripting Toolkit
UXSP/individual updates
Vendor Tools
Platform ESW UEFI, IMM, AMM and CMM
PureFlex / System x server
Scripting Toolkit
(ASU, PRAID)
IMM uEFI AMM …
SCCM
UXSPI + Updates
Director Agent Other CIM
Providers
DSA
SCOM (HW Mgmt Pack)
SCVMM
(HW PRO Pack)
Inventory OS Deployment Updates Hardware Health
(Agent)
CMM
UIM
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IBM Upward Integration Modules for Microsoft System Center - Architecture
IBM UIM for MS
PureFlex / System x
UIM in plan UIM System
Center ToolsCenter/Director/FSM/IMM
…
Windows OS
SCCM
System
Updates
Deployment
Pack
Configuratio
n Pack
Inventory
Tool
IMM uEFI AMM CMM
Windows
Scripting
Toolkit
WinPE +
Drivers
UXSP /
Update
s
UXSPI ASU DSA
SCOM
Agent SCCM Agent
Director
Agent ToolsCenter CIM provider
SCVMM SCOM
PRO
Pack
Hardware
Management
Pack
AMM 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
…
CMM MP
IMM MP
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UIM for MS Systems
Center Operations
Manager Features
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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
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IBM Hardware Management Pack
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BladeCenter
Mgmt Module
Flex Chassis
Mgmt Module Windows System
Module
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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
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UIM for MS Systems
Center Configuration
Manager Features
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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.
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IBM System Updates
Download/import updates from IBM site or local site 1
3
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.
2
Publish updates to WSUS directly
4
Pack UXSPI, UXSP updates and individual update
SCCM
(WSUS)
Client
Client
SCE (WSUS)
Client
Client
Client
4
SUAP tool
UXSPI
1
UXSP
Update 1
Update 2
Main functions of update
publishing tool:
1) Query/Download updates
2) Pack the update and publish
update to WSUS
3) Manage published updates
3
2
Individual update
Update a Update 3
UXSPI
Customer site
IBM site
Local Update
Update A
Update C
Update B
IBM site UXSP B
Update 1
Update 4
Update 3
Individual Update
Update a
Update c
Update b
UXSP A
Update 1
Update 3
Update 2
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IBM Deployment Pack – OS Deployment
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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.
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Links
IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?Indocid=SYST-MANAGE
IBM Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center:
http://www-
933.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:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=TOOL-CENTER
IBM Upward Integration for Microsoft System Center v4.0 Announcement Letter:
http://www-
01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/649/ENUSA12-
1039/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
IBM System x Upwards Integration Modules for VMware vSphere:
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-VMWARE
IBM System x Upwards Integration Modules for VMware vSphere v1.3 Announcement Letter:
http://www-
01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/649/ENUSA13-
0315/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
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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 255.0.
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 255.0.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 255.0.
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 255.0.
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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.
