What's new in version 1.3
Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator management software version 1.3 supports new hardware, software enhancements, and fixes.
Fixes
Refer to the change history file (*.chg) that is provided in the update package for information about fixes.
Software enhancements
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General | You can import files by dragging and dropping the files on the Import dialog. When you import a file, an expandable popup appears on the lower-right corner of the user interface with information about the progress and status of each import process. Icons help you quickly identify the process status. After an import completes successfully, a job is started to validate the file. If an error occurs during the import process, an error message is listed on the pop-up dialog to help you quickly resolve the issue. |
Security | You can control whether a user can perform specific functions using roles and user groups (see Controlling access to functions). XClarity Orchestrator provides several predefined user groups, one for each predefined role (see Creating user groups). You can assign roles to user groups to allow all users in that group to perform the functions in the assigned roles (see Assigning roles to users). You can assign users to user groups when you create users (see Creating users). Important
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Monitoring resources and activities | All alerts, including alerts generated based custom alert rules, are displayed in a single, unified view (see Monitoring active alerts). Jobs data in the web interface is refreshed regularly. A manual refresh is no longer required. |
Managing resources | You can manage VMware vRealize Operations Manager as a resource manager (see Connecting resource managers). If a device is not currently managed by a resource manager, you can use XClarity Orchestrator to manage the device in offline mode (see Managing devices offline). Information about online technical tips is available for each server on the Servers page (see Viewing devices status). |
Provisioning resources | You can download and import firmware updates for supported server types (see Downloading and importing updates). You can import multiple update packages at one time (see Downloading and importing updates). You can create and assign update-compliance policies for managed severs (see Creating and assigning update-compliance policies). You can apply updates to managed servers (see Applying and activating updates to managed servers). You can view a list of fixed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs ) for a specific update (see Downloading and importing updates). |
Predicting and analyzing problems | The Advanced Analytics menu is changed to Advanced. Predefined analytics reports are moved from the menu to the menu.Custom analytics alerts are listed on the all Alerts cards and health statuses (see Monitoring active alerts). Creating rules for raising custom analytics alerts is simplified (see Creating rules for custom analytics alerts). Note that existing custom alert rules are lost when updating to XClarity Orchestrator. Events are raised for custom alerts using event code FQXXOCAxxxxc, where xxxx is the unique identifier and c is the severity (see Events and alerts from XClarity Orchestrator). You can view graphs that illustrate analytics about the health and predictive failure of hard disk drives and solid-state drives in managed ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem servers. (see Analyzing drive health). This is a technical preview and not yet officially supported. |
Service and support | For servers with IMM2 or XCC baseboard management controllers, XClarity Orchestrator automatically parses service data archives into a readable format so that you can easily analyze the data for issue (see Viewing and analyzing service data for devices). You can import service-data archives for specific devices (see Importing service data for devices). |
REST API | For information about new and updated Summary of changes in the REST API. |