A new update is out since a few days for Systems Director (here are the new things : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.director.main.helps.doc%2Ffqm0_r_whats_new_in_release_631.html ) and the update method is quite simple !
IBM Systems Director: how to check the availability of an common agent
In order to function properly, a common agent needs theses ports to be allowed : If the following command doesn’t show you anything, then you either have a problem with the agent you’re trying to make contact with, or the
HDLM : change the default reserve policy on all disks
In order to get LPM to work properly, we need to put the no_reserve attribute to all disks (here we have the hitachi disk example) : We can check the new default parameter :