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Hubs

Hubs are light-weight device managers that act as a secure bridge between the Lenovo XClarity One portal and your on-premises devices. The hubs are the only devices that communicate directly with the XClarity One portal..

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The hubs are installed on premise in your data centers. They can be set up across multiple sites, where your devices are located.

The following hub is supported.

  • Hub connection and management
    Lenovo XClarity One monitors and manages devices through one or more light-weight device managers, called hubs. Hubs are installed on premise in your data centers. They can be set up across multiple sites, where your devices are located. The hubs are the only devices that communicate directly with the XClarity One portal.
  • Signing in to the hub web interface
    You can launch the Lenovo XClarity One Hub web interface from any system that has network connectivity to the XClarity One Hub virtual machine.
  • Hub health summary and details
    You can view detailed information about a specific management hub, including things to do, overall health, hub details, and a list of managed and unmanaged devices.
  • Hub metrics and trends
    You can monitor usage metrics for the hub from the main dashboard. Metrics are graphically displayed on the Metrics panel.
  • Hub features enablement
    You can allow or prevent each hub from performing certain functions.
  • Hub power actions
    You can immediately restart or power off the hub directly from the hub web interface.
  • Hub security certificates
    Lenovo XClarity One Hub uses SSL certificates to establish secure, trusted communications between the hub and its managed devices, as well as communications with hub by users or with different services. By default, XClarity One Hub and the XClarity One portal use XClarity One-generated certificates that are self-signed and issued by an internal certificate authority.
  • Configuring the hub date and time
    Review these considerations to help you configure the date and time for Lenovo XClarity One Hub.
  • Configuring the hub network
    Review these network considerations to help you set up the network in your datacenter to use XClarity One Hub.
  • Hub service data
    You can manually collect service data for Lenovo XClarity One Hub and then save the information as an archive in tar.gz format to the local system. You can then send the service files to your preferred service provider to get assistance in resolving issues as they arise.
  • Hub updates
    It is important to keep Lenovo XClarity One Hub up to date with the latest release.
  • Uninstalling a hub
    Complete these steps to uninstall a Lenovo XClarity One Hub virtual appliance.