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What's new in XClarity One

Review this information to learn about new hardware support, software enhancements, and fixes that are included in Lenovo XClarity One.

17 December 2024

Additional hardware support

The following hardware is supported by Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0.
  • ThinkSystem SD520 V4 (7DFY, 7DFZ)
  • ThinkSystem SR630 V4 (7DG8, 7DG9, 7DGA, 7DGB)

Software enhancements

The following software enhancements are supported in XClarity One.

FunctionDescription
General

You can filter tables based using specific criteria by clicking the Advanced search icon (Advanced search icon) in the search bar.

You can create a report based on information on the current page and save the report to your local system (see Exploring the portal).

Licenses

XClarity One is a for-fee cloud application that requires licenses for each device that you manage in your organizations (see Licenses).

Authentication and authorization

You can set up your organization to use your corporate federation identify provider instead of the local identify-management system for user authentication (see External identity provider).

Organizations

Your first organization request is automatically approved after purchasing licenses (see Organizations).

Devices

You can disable the power-action function globally in all management hubs in your organization from the XClarity One web interface (see Management functions).

You can remotely access the management-controller web interface for your managed devices without having a VPN connection to your datacenter or edge where your devices are located by using the portal connection (see Remote access to management controllers).

You can view usage metrics and trends for processor temperature and processor power consumption (see Usage metrics and trends).

XClarity One checks the remaining life of your drives every hour and displays the remaining life data on the inventory page.

Events and alertsYou can create alert rules for raising custom alerts that you are interested in based the frequency of events or based on metric thresholds. (see Custom alerts).
Firmware updates

You can choose to manually restart devices that require a restart to complete firmware updates instead of restarting immediately (see Firmware updates).

You can install firmware on components even if the current firmware version is up to date using the Force update option (see Firmware updates).

XClarity One automatically installs prerequisite firmware, when available (see Firmware updates).

Service and supportYou can contact XClarity One support using the Contact Us webpage instead of email (see Technical assistance).

15 October 2024

Additional hardware support

Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0 is a new lightweight device manager that you can use to manage the following Lenovo servers.
  • ThinkAgile HX series appliances
  • ThinkAgile MX series appliances
  • ThinkAgile SX series appliances
  • ThinkAgile VX series appliances
  • ThinkEdge SE series servers
  • ThinkSystem servers

Software enhancements

The following software enhancements are supported in XClarity One.

FunctionDescription
Users

Other than the first organization owners, subsequent owner no longer have the user-administrator role by default (see Users).

AnalyticsXClarity One collects memory-diagnostic logs that are generated by the XCC for DDR4 SDRAM memory modules in managed ThinkSystem devices and uses this data to improve the future AI models that are used to predict probable memory failures (see Data security).

21 August 2024

Additional hardware support

No new hardware is supported by Lenovo XClarity Management Hub 2.0 in this release.

Software enhancements

The following software enhancements are supported in XClarity One.

FunctionDescription
Devices

XClarity One makes it easy to maintain the firmware on your managed servers using templates, which consist of a set of rules and criteria that define the desired configuration for a certain type of server and identifies which managed servers are monitored for compliance (see Templates).

Alerts and events

You can set warning and critical usage thresholds and the alert duration for the certain components. A todo is raised when a threshold is exceeded. (See Usage metrics and trends).