The following year, it reverted to a slightly altered version of its original name: IBM Netfinity Manager (note the lowercase 'f').
IBM Director consists of 3 components: an agent, a console and a server.
Smaller deployments can also utilize Microsoft Jet or MSDE.
The server is configured and managed using the IBM Director Console from any Linux or Microsoft Windows workstation.
IBM Systems Director has been removed from marketing and is scheduled to reach end of service in April 2018.