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Setting up a hub

Lenovo XClarity One monitors and manages devices through one or more light-weight device managers, called hubs. The hubs run as a virtual appliance on premises in the data centers, across multiple sites, where your devices are located, to provide in fast response times, low latency, and data security.

Lenovo XClarity One Hub is the supported hub for management and provisioning of supported Lenovo devices in a secure environment.

Architecture diagram
Before installing and configuring XClarity One Hub:
  • Hardware and software requirements for XClarity One Hub
    Lenovo XClarity One Hub runs as a virtual appliance on a host system that is installed locally in your datacenter. The following requirements must be met.
  • Installing XClarity One Hub
    Lenovo XClarity One Hub is set up as virtual appliance on a host system on premises in your local datacenter.
  • Configuring XClarity One Hub
    When you access the Lenovo XClarity One Hub for the first time, you are prompted to create the first user, to accept the privacy statement and license agreement, and configure the hub through the setup wizard. You can launch the XClarity One Hub from any computer that has network connectivity to the virtual-machine host.