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LifeKeeper for IBM Director Server Protection

The LifeKeeper for IBM Director Solution makes the Director server highly available. This ensures that the Director Server will always be available to respond to alerts and events, and to take critical action when necessary.

Ensuring the availability of business-critical applications and data sources is a primary function of every IT shop. For companies looking to optimize and automate the management of their IT environments, IBM has developed Director, an integrated suite of tools that provide flexibility in system management capabilities to maximize system availability and lower hardware and software management costs. With IBM Director, local and remote detailed monitoring of the all system hardware and tracking the usage and performance of critical components, such as processors, disks, and memory is automated and simple. Administrators now have intuitive yet powerful systems management software that supports their complex environment.

Director Server Protection: SteelEye Solution Overview

Given IBM Director's role as a central platform to monitor and proactively manage IT-based business resources, its own availability is critical. The LifeKeeper Protection Suite for IBM Director ensures this by providing high availability Director Server protection and eliminating the potential for IBM Director Server being a single point of failure within the system management chain. LifeKeeper constantly monitors Director Server processes and database to ensure that all components are properly working. If a failure is detected, LifeKeeper perform the necessary actions to return Director to operation. LifeKeeper also supports manual switchover of Director processes among servers so that planned maintenance can be performed without downtime.

Use SteelEye LifeKeeper for Director Server Protection and:

  • Eliminate Director Server as a potential single-point-of-failure
  • Ensure appropriate alerts continue to be sent on hardware health issues
  • Allow any needed hardware maintenance of the IBM Director Server without losing access to the important management tasks
  • Continue proactive management through event action plans
  • Provide the highest levels of availability possible for your IT management infrastructure
IBM Director Diagram

Key Director Server Protection Features:

  • Comprehensive high availability clustering solution designed specifically for IBM Director Server
  • Protects Director 5.x
  • Shared Storage or Data Replication configurations
  • Derby, Oracle and SQL Server database support and protection
  • Monitors Director server along with its database and performs local and remote recovery
  • LifeKeeper is ServerProven, ClusterProven and System Storage Proven