Server Management

Before you begin

  • IBM strongly recommends configuring Connect:Direct servers in your deployment such that they are dynamically discovered. However, you may find it useful to import server roster into Control Center Director from IBM® Control Center via. command line utilities. Doing so enables you to observe which servers have been configured to be managed by Control Center Director and those which have not.
  • Except for when Connect:Direct® servers in your deployment are configured to be dynamically discovered or server details are imported from Control Center available in your deployment, you must add a server before you can monitor it.
    Note: Support to schedule upgrades (Deployments) is not available for Servers added and grouped through Control Center Director Web Console unless they have been upgraded to the appropriate maintenance level and have been configured for Control Center Director support.
  • Identify the number, type of servers, their connection details, and other properties for servers that need to be monitored, managed, or both in your environment.

Key Concepts - Servers

When you work with Servers tab, there are three main approaches you can use to manage Connect:Direct Servers in your deployment:
  • Add Servers in your environment and logically group them (Server groups) depending on your organization's needs. With server groups, user roles can be associated to specific server groups.
  • List Connect:Direct Servers/Server Groups available in your environment and view related details such as, server properties, connection details, deployment history, license usage, administrator contact details, and server settings.
  • Manage Connect:Direct Server/Server Group available in your environment such as, view server details.
    Note: Your User role also determines what is displayed in Servers view. Example, if you are a restricted user, Servers view displays only those server groups that are assigned to the user with a restricted role.

Initial Administrator work flow: Servers

The following steps shows the initial work flow for a Control Center Director Web Console Administrator:

  1. Add a new server*
    1. Click Add New to add a new server to your environment
  2. Create a new Server Group*
    1. Click Create New to create a new Server Group
    2. Add existing server groups from the pool by using the Server Groups field, or add other existing servers by using the Servers field.
  3. Manage Servers
    1. Click All C:D Servers to view and manage an existing server
    2. Select an entry and click Deploy, Edit, Delete, View Configuration, Mark Configured/Mark Unconfigured for an existing server.
    3. Select an entry to display server details view. This view displays server properties such as, connection details, settings, contact details, and deployment history.
    4. To schedule an Emergency Restore procedure that restores the Connect:Direct product and system files to its state as it was before upgrade, click Emergency Restore from the Server details view.
  4. Manage Server Groups
    1. Click All C:D Groups to view and manage existing server groups.
    2. Select an entry to view server group properties.
    3. Select an entry and click edit, delete an existing server.

* Skip step 1 and 2 if Connect:Direct servers in your deployment are configured to be dynamically discovered or the server details are imported from IBM Control Center Monitor available in your deployment.