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Monitoring devices and activities

You can monitor your devices and activities though the dashboard, alerts and audit logs, and jobs logs.

  • Viewing a summary of your environment
    The Dashboard displays the status of all managed devices, an overview of all provisioning-related tasks, an information about Lenovo XClarity Administrator resources and activities.
  • Monitoring system resources
    You can determine the processor usage, memory usage, and disk capacity on the host system from the Dashboard page.
  • Monitoring trends in provisioning status
    Lenovo XClarity Administrator regularly collects provisioning status, including compliance and active jobs for firmware updates and configuration patterns, for all managed devices so that you can monitor trends over a period of time.
  • Monitoring historical metrics
    Lenovo XClarity Administrator regularly collects metrics data for managed ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile devices, so that you can analyze the current state of your environment.
  • Placing devices in maintenance mode
    When a device is in maintenance mode, Lenovo XClarity Administrator excludes all events and alerts for that device from all pages on which events and alerts are displayed. Excluded alerts are still logged but are hidden from view.
  • Working with alerts
    Alerts are hardware or management conditions that require investigation and user action. Lenovo XClarity Administrator polls the managed devices asynchronously and displays alerts that are received from those devices.
  • Working with events
    From Lenovo XClarity Administrator, you have access to an event log and an audit log.
  • Working with jobs
    Jobs are longer running tasks that are performed against one or more devices. You can schedule certain jobs to run only one time (immediately or at later time), on a reoccurring basis, or when a specific event occurs.
  • Viewing relationships between jobs and events
    A flow diagram is a graphical view that shows relationships between activities (including jobs and events) that are manually initiated by a user or automatically initiated by Lenovo XClarity Administrator. The flow diagram helps to identify problems by illustrating the sequence of actions that were initiated and events that were generated, when they generated, and what caused them to be generated.