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Device settings

You can use Lenovo XClarity One to quickly configure and maintain BMC and UEFI settings on your managed devices by learning the device-settings configuration from an existing device and then applying that configuration to your other servers. You can use the health summaries to identify the device-settings health of your devices, use templates to identify the target settings-configuration that you want to maintain on each device, and update target devices to match the target configuration.

Attention

  • Devices must be running firmware that was released January 2024 or later.

  • Updating device settings is not supported for ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655 servers.

You can use device-settings configurations to configure system information, boot order, baseboard management controller, and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) settings on managed servers.

You cannot configure the following settings.

  • Local storage and SAN zoning

  • I/O adapters

  • Local user accounts

  • LDAP servers

  • VLAN configuration

  • System OOB custom

  • Trusted computing group

  • Ethernet interface configuration

  • SNMP (sensitive authentication values are not supported)

  • SMTP (sensitive authentication values are not supported)

  • Server-specific information (name and location)

Attention
XClarity One does not assign IP and I/O addresses to individual servers when the device settings are deployed.

Device-settings configurations​

XClarity One creates a device-settings configuration by learning the settings on a golden master device that has the correct firmware level and device settings that you want to apply on target devices. You can then assign and apply the device-settings configuration to target devices that have the same machine type and specifications (such as processors, memory, storage, and features-on-demand keys) as the golden master device.

Tip

  • You cannot change the settings in a learned device-settings configuration. Instead, change the desired settings on the golden-master device before learning the configuration.

  • Update the firmware on target devices to match the firmware levels on the golden master device before applying the device-settings configuration to the target devices.

You can see a list of device-settings configurations clicking the Lifecycle Management on the context menu from the Device management view, and then clicking Device settings from the context menu.

This page lists the device-settings configurations by device type and the number of templates that use each configuration. You can click a number in the Templates column to see a filtered list of templates that use a specific configuration.

You can view the device settings in a specific configuration by clicking the Lifecycle Management on the context menu from the Device management view, clicking Device settings from the context menu, and clicking the configuration that you want view.

Compliance checks​

XClarity One checks the compliance status of devices by comparing the current settings on the target device with the settings that are defined by its assigned device-settings configuration.

The overall compliance status can be one of the following.

  • Compliant. No action is required. The device complies with the assigned device settings configuration.

  • Not Compliant. Target device is not compliant to the assigned device settings configuration. Apply a configuration or template to target device to make it compliant.

  • Calculating. The compliance status is being calculated.

  • Unknown. The portal failed to calculate the compliance status. In this case, unassign the template and assign it again to trigger another compliance check. Check the events logs for details.

The compliance check is run on a device when:

  • When a template is initially assigned to the device or the template assigned is changed.

  • When the assigned template is modified.

  • When the server inventory or device settings are changed.

  • When a power action is performed on the device.

  • One week has passed since the last compliance check

Device settings compliance​

You can view the BMC and UEFI settings details for a specific device and easily find which settings are not compliant with the assigned template by clicking the Managed devices panel title from the Device management view, clicking the device, and then clicking Device settings from the context menu.

Expand the tree-table to view the compliance status for each device setting.

  • Compliant. The setting value on the device matches the corresponding value in the template.

  • Not Compliant. The setting value on the device differs from the corresponding value in the template. If even one setting is marked as Not Compliant, the overall compliance status is Not Compliant.

  • Not Applicable. The setting on device and template is not applicable for compliance comparison. The possible reasons are:
    • The setting is not on the device or template.
    • The value for this setting is not on the device or template.
    • The setting is excluded from the scope of compliance comparison.
The settings on a device can become out of compliance with its assigned device-settings configuration in the following instances.

  • Firmware was updated, which changed device settings and definitions.

  • Device settings were changed directly on the server.

  • An issue occurred during configuration deployment, such a firmware issue or an invalid setting.

  • Device-settings updates
    Lenovo XClarity One uses the hubs to apply device settings to your managed devices. When you initiate a device-settings update from the XClarity One portal, XClarity One pushes the configuration to the appropriate management hub and then sends a request to the hub to apply the configuration on the target devices. The hub sends status, progress, and log data back to the XClarity One portal during the update process so you can monitor progress.