U.S. Announcement: 209-303

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V4.2 software, an IBM Systems Director plug-in, is available on Linux on POWER, AIX, and Windows operating systems to help you monitor and manage the power and thermal usage of your IT environment. The main new features in this release are energy management of updated firmware levels for IBM POWER6 technology-based servers to aid in power on and off; enhanced facility provider support with APC, Eaton, and Emerson Network Power; support for users to manually create relationships from servers to cooling and power units in data centers; enhanced power distribution unit (PDU) support; and the ability to monitor energy and environmental data from PDUs and sensors sold by APC, Avocent, Rittal, and Arch Rock.