Monitoring the health of hardware components and systems

This topic lists the components that Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack monitors and the steps that are necessary to facilitate monitoring. Component discovery and health monitoring depend on firmware support, hardware compatibility, and management software support. Therefore, all of the components are not always discoverable. If a component is not discovered, it cannot be monitored or managed.

About this task

Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack, discovers and monitors the following hardware components of a Microsoft virtual machine host:

Fans
Management controllers
Memory
Network adapters
Power supplies
Power usage sensors
Processors
Storage
Temperature sensors
Voltage sensors

Note

Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack health state reporting is limited to the components listed above and requires that all dependencies are met and functioning properly.

You can use Lenovo Hardware Management Pack to verify that all of the necessary management software is installed on all of the managed hosts.

Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack monitors and reports system health using the:

Operations Manager Console
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Applications Event log

Procedure

In the navigation pane of the Operations Manager Console click Monitoring and select one of the following folder views:

Expand the Lenovo SCVMM-Managed Licensed Hosts (PRO Views) folder to view the folders and views added by Operations Manager Console.
Click Active PRO Alerts to view warning or critical alerts associated with your hardware. The following figure provides an example of how active alerts might be displayed:
Figure 1. Active alerts
Expand the Lenovo SCVMM-Managed Licensed Hosts (PRO Views) folder to view the status and health of system hardware.

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