# IBM Director > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/IBM_Director > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/IBM_Director.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Director > Source revision: 1313266643 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "IBM Director" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **IBM Systems Director** is an [element management system](/source/Element_management_system) (EMS) (sometimes referred to as a "workgroup management system") first introduced by [IBM](/source/IBM) in 1993 as NetFinity Manager. The software was originally written to run on [OS/2](/source/OS%2F2) 2.0. It has subsequently gone through a number of name changes in the interim. It was changed in 1996 to [IBM PC](/source/IBM_Personal_Computer) SystemView. Later that same year, it was renamed to TME 10 NetFinity. The following year, it reverted to a slightly altered version of its original name: IBM Netfinity Manager (note the lowercase 'f'). In 1999, IBM announced Netfinity Director; a new product based on Tivoli IT Director. It was intended as a replacement for IBM Netfinity Manager. When IBM renamed its Netfinity line of enterprise servers to [x](/source/IBM_System_x)Series, the name was changed to IBM Director. With the release of version 6.1, the product was renamed from IBM Director to IBM Systems Director. IBM Director consists of 3 components: an agent, a console and a server. To take full advantage of IBM Director's capabilities, the IBM Director Agent must be installed on the monitored system. Inventory and management data are stored in an [SQL](/source/SQL) database ([Oracle](/source/Oracle_Database), [SQL Server](/source/Microsoft_SQL_Server), [IBM DB2](/source/IBM_DB2) Universal Database or [PostgreSQL](/source/PostgreSQL)) which can be separate or on the same server where IBM [Director Server](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_Directory_Server&action=edit&redlink=1) resides. Smaller deployments can also utilize [Microsoft Jet](/source/Jet_Database_Engine) or [MSDE](/source/MSDE). The server is configured and managed using the IBM Director Console from any [Linux](/source/Linux) or [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows) [workstation](/source/Workstation). IBM Systems Director has been removed from marketing and is scheduled to reach end of service in April 2018. ## IBM Director is composed of these major tasks - Asset ID - BladeCenter Management - CIM Browser - Command Automation - Configure [SNMP](/source/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol) Agent - Data Capture Policy Manager - Event Action Plans - Event Log - External Application Launch - File Transfer - Hardware Status - Inventory - JMX Browser - Microsoft Cluster Browser - Network Configuration - Process Management - Rack Manager - Remote Control - Remote Session - Retail Peripheral Management (needs Retail Extensions) - RMA Software Distribution - Resource Monitors - Scheduler - Server Configuration Manager - Service and Support Management - SNMP Browser - Software Distribution - System Accounts - Update Manager - User Administration ## Major releases - IBM Systems Director 6.3 (out of service) - IBM Systems Director 6.2 (out of service) - IBM Systems Director 6.1 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.20.3 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.20.2 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.20.1 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.20.0 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.10.3 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.10.2 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.10.1 (out of service) - IBM Director 5.10.0 (out of service) - IBM Director 4.22 (out of service) - IBM Director 4.21 (out of service) - IBM Director 4.20 (out of service) - IBM Director 4.12 (out of service) - IBM Director 4.11 (out of service) - IBM Director 4.10 (out of service) - IBM Director 3.1.1 (out of service) ## See also - [IBM Systems Director Console](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM_Systems_Director_Console&action=edit&redlink=1) for AIX - [System Center Operations Manager](/source/System_Center_Operations_Manager) - [Oracle Enterprise Manager](/source/Oracle_Enterprise_Manager) ## References - IBM Official Director Forums[\[1\]](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=759&start=0) ## External links - [IBM Director home page](https://web.archive.org/web/20070913104806/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/) - [IBM Systems Director download page](https://web.archive.org/web/20150724023356/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/director/downloads/) - [An Introduction to Using IBM Systems Director to Manage IBM i](https://web.archive.org/web/20150724023356/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/director/downloads/) IBM Systems Director 6.3.x - [IBM Systems Director Release Notes](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/topic/com.ibm.director.main.helps.doc/dir6.3_relnotes.pdf) - [IBM Software Information Center](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.director.main.helps.doc%2Ffqm0_main.html) IBM Systems Director 6.2.x - [IBM Systems Director Release Notes](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.main.helps.doc/dir6.2.1_relnotes.pdf) - [IBM Software Information Center](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/index.jsp) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [IBM Director](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Director) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Director?action=history)). 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