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Using remote control to manage Converged, Flex System, NeXtScale, and System x servers

From the Lenovo XClarity Administrator web interface, you can open a remote-control session to manage Converged, Flex System, NeXtScale, and System x servers as if you were at a local console.

Before you begin

Encapsulation must be disabled on the server.

Ensure that the server is in the Online or Normal state. If a server has any other health state, the remote-control session cannot connect to the server. For more information about viewing the server status, see Viewing the details of a managed server.

Ensure that the Remote Presence features-on-demand (FoD) key is installed on server.

Remote control for these servers does not require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on the device.

About this task

You can launch a remote-control session to a single server from XClarity Administrator.

For more information about using the remote console and media features, see your server documentation.

After the remote-control application is downloaded to the client's machine, it can be used by XClarity Administrator v4.1 and later.

Procedure

To open a remote-control session to a specific server, complete the following steps.

  1. From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Hardware > Servers. The Servers page is displayed with a tabular view of all managed servers (rack servers and compute nodes).

    You can sort the table columns to make it easier to find specific servers. In addition, you can select a system type from the All Systems drop-down list and enter text (such as a name or IP address) in the Filter field to further filter the servers that are displayed.

  2. Select the server to which you want to open a remote-control session.
  3. Click the Remote Control icon (Remote control icon).
  4. Click Get File to download the remote-control application as a ZIP file on the client's machine. Uncompress the ZIP file.
  5. Run the lxcarpz.EXE file to start the remote-control application on the client's machine.
  6. Provide IP address, username, and password for XClarity Administrator.

    The user account that is used to start the remote-control session must be a valid user account that has been defined in the XClarity Administrator authentication server. The user account must also have sufficient user authority to access and manage a server.