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Working with events

From Lenovo XClarity Administrator, you have access to an event log and an audit log.

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The event log provides a historical list of all hardware and management events.

The audit log provides a historical record of user actions, such as logging in to Lenovo XClarity Administrator, creating a new user, and changing a user password. You can use the audit log to track and document authentication and controls in IT systems.

  • Monitoring events in the event log
    The event log provides a historical list of all hardware and management events.
  • Monitoring events in the audit log
    The audit log provides a historical record of user actions, such as logging in to Lenovo XClarity Administrator, creating a new user, and changing a user password. You can use the audit log to track and document authentication and controls in IT systems.
  • Resolving an event
    Lenovo XClarity Administrator provides information about the appropriate actions to perform to resolve an event.
  • Excluding events
    If there are specific events that are of no interest to you, you can exclude the events from all pages on which events are displayed. Excluded events are still in the log but are hidden from all pages on which events are displayed.
  • Forwarding events
    You can configure Lenovo XClarity Administrator to forward events to mobile devices and to connected applications that you have in your environment for aggregating and monitoring hardware status and runtime issues for your hardware environment.