The extended baseboard management-controller settings are
learned and dynamically created from a specific managed server. Lenovo XClarity Administrator creates these patterns when you create a server pattern
from an existing server. You cannot manually create extended management-controller
patterns; however, you can copy and modify the patterns that have
already been created.
Before you
begin
Note: IMM thermal setting might conflict with the UEFI operating-mode
setting. If they do conflict, the UEFI settings overwrites the IMM
setting when the device is rebooted, and any thermal settings that
you define in an extended baseboard management-controller pattern
will be out of compliance. To resolve the non-compliance issue, either
remove the setting from the extended baseboard management-controller
pattern or select a setting that does not conflict with the current
UEFI operating-mode setting.
Procedure
Complete the following steps to modify extended management-controller
patterns.
- From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click . The Configuration
Patterns: Patterns page is displayed.
- Click the Category Patterns tab.
- Click the Extended BMC Patterns vertical tab.
- Select the pattern to be modified, and click the Edit icon (
).
- Modify the appropriate fields.
You can select the settings that you want to include in the
category pattern by clicking Include/Exclude settings.
To configure DNS settings, click . You can enable DNS, select the IP protocol, and specify
up to three IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, and enable the discovery of XClarity Administrator IP addresses.
Note: For Flex System devices, you can
configure only the IP address to use to discover the XClarity Administrator server.
To configure NTP settings, click . You can specify the host name for up to 4 NTP servers
and the frequency.
Note: For Flex System devices, you cannot configure
NTP settings.
(Rack servers only) To data and time settings,
click . You can
specify the time zone (UTC offset), enable or disable daylight savings
time (DST), and choose whether to use UTC or the local time on the
host.
To change user account security settings, click Account Security Configuration.
- Click Save to the save changes to
the current category pattern, or click Save As to save changes in a new category pattern.
Results
The modified category pattern is listed on the
Extended BMC Patterns tab in the
Configuration Patterns: Category Patterns page:

From this page, you can
also perform the following actions on a selected category pattern: