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Configuring native OS management

This section describes how to enable or disable native OS management for servers enabled with Storage Spaces Direct.

Native OS management is a way to manage the hardware when no Lenovo XClarity Administrator is available. To use this function, log in to the XCC Web GUI and enable IPMI over KCS Access, Ethernet Over USB, and REST/CIM Over HTTPS.

Native OS management is inapplicable to ThinkServer and ThinkSystem SR635/SR655 servers. For servers enabled with Storage Spaces Direct, native OS management is disabled by default, but users can perform the following steps to enable native OS management for them.

Procedure

  1. In any of Lenovo extensions, click the more icon in the top right corner.
    A menu is displayed.
  2. In the menu, click Settings.
  3. On the Native OS Management page, do one or more of the following:

    • To enable or disable the native OS management for servers enabled with Storage Spaces Direct, select Yes or No, thanks and click Apply.

    • To set the valid period of inventory cache data, input the number of minutes and click Apply.
      Note

      • The range of the valid period is from 10 to 525600 minutes.

      • The default value is 10080 minutes.