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Configuring XClarity Orchestrator for the first time

When you access Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator for the first time, there are several steps that you must complete to initially it set up.

Procedure

To set up XClarity Orchestrator for the first time, complete the following steps.

  1. Access the XClarity Orchestrator web interface.
  2. Change the initial password.
  3. Read and accept the license agreement.
  4. Create additional user accounts.
  5. Configure the date and time.
  6. Configure network access, including IP addresses for the data and management network.
  7. Choose to use the default authentication server or configure an external LDAP client.
  8. Configure additional security settings, including importing trusted certificates for internal and external services.
  9. Configure and enable automatic problem notification, if applicable.
  10. Configure XClarity Orchestrator to forward events to specific services and applications, if applicable.
  11. Connect your resource managers.
  • Accessing the XClarity Orchestrator web interface for the first time
    You can launch the Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator web interface from any system that has network connectivity to the XClarity Orchestrator virtual machine.
  • Creating a local user
    You can manually create user accounts in the local (embedded) authentication server. Local user accounts are used to log in to Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator and authorize access to resources.
  • Configuring the network
    When you initially set up Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator, you must configure a single network interface (using IPv4 and IPv6 settings). You can also configure Internet routing settings.
  • Configuring the date and time
    You must set up at least one (and up to four) Network Time Protocol (NTP) server to synchronize the timestamps for Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator with events that are received from resource managers.
  • Setting up the authentication server
    Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator includes a local (embedded) authentication server. You can also choose to use your own external Active Directory LDAP server.
  • Configuring additional security settings
    You can configure additional security settings, including certificates and user-account security settings.
  • Configuring and enabling automatic problem notification (Call Home)
    You can set up Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to automatically open a service ticket and send collected service data to Lenovo Support using the Call Home function when a device generates certain serviceable events, such as an unrecoverable memory, so that the issue can be addressed.
  • Setting up event-data forwarding
    You can forward event, inventory, and metric data from Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to external applications, which you can use to monitor and analyze data.
  • Connecting resource managers
    Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator monitors and manages devices through resource and application managers.