IBM Systems Director Express Edition for x86 (v. 6.1.2) - license + 3 Years Software Subscription and Support - 1 server

IBM Systems Director Express Edition for x86 offers an integrated set of tools to help IT organizations address the challenges associated with managing both physical and virtual server infrastructures. IBM Systems Director Express Edition is packaged to make it easier to deploy the capabilities you need to manage IBM server systems and to obtain support and service.

IBM Systems Director V6.1.2 enables a single point of management for all IBM systems (servers and storage), including both virtual and physical systems. It can help reduce the overall costs of managing these systems. Its robust platform management capabilities integrate seamlessly with leading enterprise management solutions and deliver comprehensive platform management, enabling complete life cycle management and platform provisioning of IBM systems. IBM Systems Director V6.1.2 offers increased platform support through the addition of single-system platform management functionality. IT efficiency is increased with the convenient integration of these robust, platform-level management capabilities.

IBM Systems Director V6.1.2 helps spur cross-system management consistency by representing agent information in a consistent manner. Regardless of the type of systems, the user interface delivers a single system view of the operating system and its related system health information and also depicts common tasks like inventory and updates. IBM Systems Director V6.1.2 supports the following agent types: agentless, platform agent, and common agent. Deploying target agents is easier than ever with IBM Systems Director V6.1.2 as system administrators can simply leverage a new agent release management task via the Web-based console to distribute and install the proper agent and subagent packages to suitable operating systems. Storage also has agents but they are not classified using these same categories.