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Administering Lenovo XClarity Administrator

Several administration tasks, such as adding users or viewing jobs, are available from Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

  • Managing authentication and authorization
    Lenovo XClarity Administrator provides security mechanisms to verify a user's credentials and control access to resources and tasks.
  • Implementing a secure environment
    It is important that you evaluate the security requirements in your environment, understand all security risks, and minimize those risks. Lenovo XClarity Administrator includes several features that can help you secure your environment. Use the following information to help you implement the security plan for your environment.
  • Using VMware Tools
    The VMware Tools package is installed in the virtual machine’s guest operating system when you install Lenovo XClarity Administrator in VMware ESXi-based environments. This package provides a subset of the VMware tools that support optimized virtual-appliance backup and migration while preserving application state and continuity.
  • Configuring operating-system kernel parameters
    OS kernel parameters are used by Lenovo Support to optimize the XClarity Administrator operating system.
  • Configuring network access
    When you initially set up Lenovo XClarity Administrator, you configure up to two network interfaces. In addition, you must specify which of those interfaces is to be used to deploy operating systems. After the initial setup, you can modify these settings.
  • Setting the date and time
    You can set the date and time to be used for Lenovo XClarity Administrator.
  • Setting inventory preferences
    You can set inventory preferences for managed devices, including the property to use to display the device name.
  • Setting threshold preferences for generating alerts and events
    You can set threshold preferences for raising an alert and event when a certain value, such as the life of an SSD in a ThinkSystem or ThinkServer server, exceeds a warning or critical level.
  • Setting up automatic problem notification to Lenovo Support (Call Home)
    You can create a service forwarder that automatically sends service data for any managed device to Lenovo Support using the Call Home when certain serviceable events, such as an unrecoverable memory, are received from specific managed devices so that the issue can be addressed. This service forwarded is named Default Call Home.
  • Setting up automatic problem notification to a preferred service provider
    You can configure Lenovo XClarity Administrator to automatically send diagnostic files for a specific set of managed devices to your preferred service provider (including Lenovo Support using Call Home) when certain serviceable events are received from managed devices (such as an unrecoverable memory error) so that the issue can be addressed.
  • Backing up, restoring, and migrating system data and settings
    You can use Lenovo XClarity Administrator to backup and restore system data and settings and imported files such as operating-system images, firmware updates, and OS device drivers.
  • Managing disk space
    You can manage the amount of disk space that is used by Lenovo XClarity Administrator by moving large data files that are not immediately needed to a remote share or by deleting resources that are no longer needed.
  • Managing remote shares
    You can mount remote shares and then move large data files, such as Lenovo XClarity Administrator backups and firmware updates, from the local repository to the remote share to manage disk space that is available to management server.
  • Changing the language of the user interface
    You can change the language of the user interface after you are logged in.
  • Shutting down XClarity Administrator
    When Lenovo XClarity Administrator shuts down, connectivity to Lenovo XClarity Administrator is lost.
  • Restarting XClarity Administrator
    You can restart Lenovo XClarity Administrator from the web interface or from the hypervisor after a shutdown.