Skip to main content

Analyzing trends and predicting problems

Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator generates analytics alerts based on known hardware and firmware issues, monitors trends to detect anomalies that occur in your managed resources, and builds heuristics that can calculate the likelihood of impending problems or failures. The trends are visualized as queries, graphs, and charts that show the compliance status, problem history, and breakdown of resources that have the most problems. You can then analyze these trends to get insights into the cause of problems and resolve them quickly.

Important
  • The analytics functions are supported for ThinkAgile, ThinkSystem, and ThinkEdge servers running XCC firmware v1.4 or later.
  • To use the analytics functions, a Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator Analytics license is needed for each device that supports the analytics functions. A license is not tied to specific devices. For more information, see Applying XClarity Orchestrator licenses.
  • Creating custom analytics reports
    Analytics reports run continuously in the background to give insight into how well your data center is operating in real time.
  • Analyzing device boot times
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that summarize the boot times for managed devices. The boot time is the amount of time, in seconds, that it took for the system boot to complete, prior to handing over to the operating system.
  • Analyzing connectivity issues
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that show statistics about connectivity issues.
  • Analyzing security fixes
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that shows analytics about security fixes for known common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
  • Analyzing drive health
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that shows analytics about the health and predictive failure of hard disk drives and solid-state drives in managed ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem servers.
  • Analyzing firmware
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that shows analytics about firmware.
  • Analyzing lost events
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that show statistics about lost events. Lost events are determined by a gap in sequence numbers
  • Analyzing and predicting resource-manager capacity
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that predict when resource managers will exceed the maximum number of managed devices. For Lenovo XClarity Administrator resource managers, up to 1,000 managed devices are supported.
  • Analyzing and predicting utilization trends
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that show historical and forecasted processor, storage, and memory usage in devices and virtual resources (such as hosts, clusters, and virtual machines).
  • Analyzing performance and usage metrics
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that shows heatmaps based on specific metrics and resources over a specific time period.
  • Analyzing repeated events
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that summarize the repeated events for each device.
  • Analyzing unauthorized-access attempts
    The Analytics panel contains report cards that summarize unauthorized-access (failed login) attempts.
  • Analyzing device health
    The Overall Health States card on the dashboard and the Device Analytics card on each devices page summarize the overall health of managed devices.
  • Analyzing infrastructure-resource health
    You can determine the overall health and sensor trends of infrastructure resources.
  • Analyzing active alerts
    The Alerts Analytics card summarize the active alerts.