Monitoring the system health

This section describes how to monitor the health of the BMC-based servers and their hardware components.

The following hardware components are supported for health state monitoring:

• BMC system

• Processor

• Cooling Device

• Physical Memory

• Disk Drive

Note

Lenovo Management Pack monitors events/alerts from BMC. These events/alerts cannot be monitored if they are generated before BMC is managed.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Operations Manager console.
2. In the left navigation pane, click Monitoring > Lenovo Hardware > Lenovo ThinkSystem and System x.
3. To view the overall status of the BMC-based servers, select the Lenovo ThinkSystem and System x BMC view.
4. To view the critical or warning alerts associated with the hardware, click Active Alerts. To learn more about the alerts, refer to Using Health Explorer to view and resolve problems.
5. To view the hardware component information, select the hardware component that you want to check.
   Note

   • The Lenovo System x and ThinkSystem > Hardware Components folder includes the views of Cooling Devices, Disk Drive, Fibre Channel, Firmware/VPD, InfiniBand, Network Adapter, Numeric Sensors, PCI Device, Physical Memory, Processors, and RAID Controller.

   • Separate monitor is defined for Cooling Devices, Disk Drive, Physical Memory and Processor. For other components, even though the monitoring status is Non-monitored in the component view, they are actually under monitoring. When the events/alerts from BMC of these hardware components are received, they will be generated and be displayed in Active Alerts view.

   • If the related hardware issue is resolved, the server health state will be reset automatically and the related alerts will be cleared automatically.