Defining extended ThinkSystem V4 management-controller settings

The extended ThinkSystem V4 baseboard management-controller (BMC) settings are learned and dynamically created from a specific managed server. Lenovo XClarity Administrator creates these patterns when you create a server pattern from an existing ThinkSystem V4 server. You cannot manually create extended ThinkSystem V4 management-controller patterns; however, you can copy and modify the patterns that have already been created.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to modify extended ThinkSystem V4 BMC patterns.

1. From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Provisioning > Patterns. The Configuration Patterns: Patterns page is displayed.
2. Click the Category Patterns tab.
3. Click the Extended V4 Series BMC Pattern vertical tab.
4. Select the pattern to be modified, and click the Edit icon ().
5. Modify the appropriate fields.

   You can select the settings that you want to include in the category pattern by clicking Include/Exclude settings.

6. Click Save to the save changes to the current category pattern, or click Save As to save changes in a new category pattern.

Results

The modified category pattern is listed on the Extended V4 Series BMC Patterns tab in the Configuration Patterns: Category Patterns page:

From this page, you can also perform the following actions on a selected category pattern:

• Copy an existing pattern by clicking the Copy icon ().
• Delete a pattern by clicking the Delete icon ().
• Rename a pattern by clicking the Rename icon ().

• Import or export patterns (see Exporting and importing server and category patterns).