Installing

IBM^® provides the Hardware Management Pack and the BladeCenter^® Chassis Management Pack for you to integrate into the Operations Manager, to enhance the management of IBM systems. The Hardware Management Pack discovers IBM System x™ systems, BladeCenter blade server systems, and system components, and then monitors their health. The IBM BladeCenter Chassis Management Pack discovers IBM BladeCenter chassis units and chassis components, such as the management module and I/O modules, and monitors their health. The Hardware Management Pack will integrate the BladeCenter Chassis Management Pack more tightly in future releases, but for now they are two separate management packs.

• Supported configurations of managed systems
  Several factors contribute to determining the combinations of operating systems and IBM systems that the Hardware Management Pack supports as managed systems.
• Installing the Hardware Management Pack
  You can install the IBM Hardware Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Version 2.0 on a Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 server.
• Uninstalling IBM Hardware Management Pack, V2.0
  To uninstall the Management Pack entirely, go to the "Add or Remove Programs" function in the Windows^® Control Panel, and select Remove on the Management Pack entry. Deleting a management pack from the Operations Manager console detaches the management pack from the Operations Manager Server, but does not remove any files that the management pack installs.
• Reinstalling IBM Hardware Management Pack, V2.0
  If you recently uninstalled, wait approximately three minutes for the settings to get propagated to the Operations Manager database before you reinstall.