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Management features and functions

You can allow or prevent XClarity One from performing certain functions.

Management features​

XClarity One Hub discovers and manages only Lenovo devices with baseboard management controllers by default. If you want your hubs to discover and manage devices without a baseboard management controller using a management agent, you need to enable the features for each appropriate hub. From the XClarity One portal, click the hub from the Management hubs panel on the Organizations management view, and the click Features and functions from the context menu.

All features are disabled by default.

  • Agent management. This function is used to discover and manage smart devices that use a management agent instead of a baseboard management controller for communication.

Management functions​

Lenovo XClarity One leverages hubs to perform management functions on managed devices. You can control whether to allow XClarity One and XClarity One Hub to perform management function on your devices. If all management functions are disabled, managed device are only monitor, and no changes can be made on the devices.

You can enable and disable these functions on a specific hub from the XClarity One Hub web interface by clicking Features and functions from the context menu on the Security view.

Organization owners can enable or disable these functions from XClarity One portal by clicking Functions from the context menu on the Settings view or by clicking the hub from the Management hubs panel on the Organizations management view, and the clicking Features and functions from the context menu.
Note

  • All functions are disabled by default.

  • When you disable a function from the XClarity One portal, the function is disabled on the portal and on all hubs in the organization.

  • When you enable a function from the XClarity One portal, the function is enabled only in the portal. Be aware that the XClarity One portal settings might not match the setting on the hubs. It is your responsibly to enable the function on each hub.

The following device-management functions are supported.

  • Device power actions. This function is used to power on, power off, and restart managed devices through the XClarity One portal.

  • Firmware updates. This function is used to push and update firmware on managed devices.

    Note
    When this option is disabled, you can continue to use XClarity One manage the firmware repository, create templates with firmware rules and assign to devices, and monitor devices for compliance. For more information, see Firmware.

  • Device-settings updates. This function is used to update device-settings on managed devices.

    Note
    When this option is disabled, you can continue to use XClarity One to manage the device-settings repository, create templates with device-settings configurations and assign to devices, and monitor devices for compliance. For more information, see Device settings.

  • Operating-system updates. This function is used to deploy an operating-system on managed devices.

    Note
    When this option is disabled, you can continue to use to manage the operating-system repository, create templates with OS profiles and assign to devices, and monitor devices for compliance. For more information, see Operating systems.

  • Remote Server Access. This function is used to launch a remote session for managed devices.

  • Remote Server Console Access. This function is used to view and interact with the server console for managed devices and to mount a disk image (ISO or IMG file) as a virtual drive on the device. For more information, see Remote sever access.