Your interesting uses for IBM Director 1

[Kooch]

I thought I would start a thread to see what kind of custom uses people have implemented with IBM Director. I've just begun using it really and I'd like to see what other techs are doing with it!

 

[jaapengel79]

The overwhelming number of replies to this post says a lot..

 

[Mammoth]

I recommend using it for deployment through RDM. Using Director for remote monitoring can be a headache due to all the false errors.

 

[JohnE66]

We mainly use it for RDM. Some monitoring. We were going to deploy PCs from it as well, but gave up with that a long time ago and use Altiris instead.

 

[jaapengel79]

We mainly use IBM Director for monitoring actually .. yes under 4.2x we get some false errors though the older systems are slowly but surely phased out and replaced with newer better supported systems.

Occasionally we receive e-mails of defective harddrives, fans or other issues - that's about all we do with Director.

 

[xxzab]

I have director 5.10.3 running the vm management and updatexpress server deployments and ServeRAID addon. And sending all hardware alerts to Tivoli Enterprise Console.

Eric
Whirlpool Corp.

 

[bilatos]

We just started using IBM Director 5.10, it looks like a very powerful management application, basically we're using it for hardware inventory (Monitoring) and remote access.