Adding Lenovo XClarity Administrator

Adding Lenovo XClarity Administrator into the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in is prerequisite for certain functions, such as viewing general information about Lenovo XClarity Administrator and viewing a chassis map of its managed chassis. Use the steps in this section to add Lenovo XClarity Administrator into Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in.

Procedure

1. Click Lenovo Infrastructure from the navigation pane.
2. Click the LXCA Registration tab at the top of the main frame.
   The Registered LXCA page is displayed on the main frame. All registered Lenovo XClarity Administrator instances are displayed on the page.
3. Click Register to begin Lenovo XClarity Administrator registration.
   A Lenovo XClarity Administrator registration dialog is displayed.
4. Enter the IP address, User Name, Password, and Port for the Lenovo XClarity Administrator. Then do one of the following to authenticate Lenovo XClarity Administrator:

   • Use an existing account.

     Ensure that this account has lxc-supervisor or lxc-operator, lxc-fw-admin, lxc-hw-admin, lxc-os-admin role groups. If Resource Access Control is enabled on Lenovo XClarity Administrator, ensure that this account can access the server.

   • Create a new account.

     Create a new account in Lenovo XClarity Administrator and use this account for further communication. The new account has lxc-operator, lxc-fw-admin, lxc-hw-admin, lxc-os-admin role groups. Do not create a new account when Lenovo XClarity Administrator is using LDAP or the local account is disabled. If Resource Access Control is enabled on Lenovo XClarity Administrator, ensure that lxc-operator, lxc-fw-admin, lxc-hw-admin, lxc-os-admin role groups can access the server.

   Click OK, the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Add-in connects to the Lenovo XClarity Administrator to authenticate.
5. If the View Certificate page is displayed, click Trust this certificate to confirm that Lenovo XClarity Administrator is trusted, and then click Close.
6. After you register, click Refresh to update the navigation pane.

What to do next

Note

• Ensure that the user-authentication method in Lenovo XClarity Administrator is not configured as Allow logons from LDAP users.

• Ensure that the specified Lenovo XClarity Administrator user account has supervisor privilege.

• If you registered a Lenovo XClarity Administrator instance using an earlier version of Lenovo XClarity Integrator, manually download the server certificate for the Lenovo XClarity Administrator instance, and import it in to Lenovo XClarity Integrator by click Manage trusted certificates > Add. If the server certificate is not added to Lenovo XClarity Integrator, Lenovo XClarity Integrator will not connect to Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

• If your Lenovo XClarity Administrator works only in IPv6 environment, you can only manually import its certificate to Lenovo XClarity Integrator by click Manage trusted certificates > Add. Otherwise, Lenovo XClarity Administrator will not be registered.

Other Lenovo XClarity Administrator Registration Operations:

After completing the registration, you can perform these actions:

• Edit Lenovo XClarity Administrator by clicking Edit and making any necessary changes.

• Unregister Lenovo XClarity Administrator by clicking Unregister.

• Manage trusted certificates by clicking Manage trusted certificates.

Downloading the Lenovo XClarity Administrator server certificate

You can download a copy of the current Lenovo XClarity Administrator server certificate, in PEM format, to your local system.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to download the server certificate.

1. Log in to Lenovo XClarity Administrator.
2. From the Lenovo XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Administration > Security to display the Security page.
3. Click Server Certificate under the Certificate Management section. The Server Certificate page is displayed.
4. Click the Download Certificate tab.
5. Click Download Certificate. The Server Certificate dialog is displayed.
6. Click Save to pem to save the server certificate as a PEM file on your local system.
   Note

   DER format is not supported.

Managing trusted certificates

Lenovo XClarity Integrator provides an integrated method for managing the trusted Lenovo XClarity Administrator certificates.

Procedure

From the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Management page, click Manage trusted certificates to display the Trusted Certificates page. From this page you can perform the following actions:

• Manually add a trusted Lenovo XClarity Administrator certificate by clicking Add.

• Viewed detail information for of a trusted certificate by clicking View.

• Delete a trusted certificate by clicking Delete.

• Update the trusted certificates list by clicking Refresh.

• Return to the Lenovo XClarity Integrator Management page. by clicking LXCA Registration.