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Management hubs

Lenovo XClarity One monitors and manages devices through one or more light-weight device managers, called management hubs. Management hubs are installed on premise in your data centers. They can be set up across multiple sites, where your devices are located. The management hubs are the only devices that communicate directly with the XClarity One portal.

The following management hub is supported.

  • Management hub connection and management
    Lenovo XClarity One monitors and manages devices through one or more light-weight device managers, called management hubs. Management hubs are installed on premise in your data centers. They can be set up across multiple sites, where your devices are located. The management hubs are the only devices that communicate directly with the XClarity One portal.
  • Signing in to the management-hub web interface
    You can launch the Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0 web interface from any system that has network connectivity to the XClarity Management Hub 2.0 virtual machine.
  • Management 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.
  • Management functions
    Lenovo XClarity One leverages management hubs to perform management functions on managed devices. You can control whether to allow XClarity One and XClarity Management Hub 2.0 to perform management function on your devices. If all management functions are disabled, XClarity One only monitors your devices and is not permitted to make changes to your devices.
  • Management-hub security certificates
    Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0 uses SSL certificates to establish secure, trusted communications between the management hub and its managed devices, as well as communications with management hub by users or with different services. By default, XClarity Management Hub 2.0 and the XClarity One portal use XClarity One-generated certificates that are self-signed and issued by an internal certificate authority.
  • Management-hub service data
    You can manually collect service data for Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0 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.
  • Management-hub updates
    It is important to keep Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0 up to date with the latest release.