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Viewing the status of a managed server

You can view a summary and detailed status for the managed servers and their installed components from the Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

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About this task

The following status icons are used to indicate the overall health of the device. If the certificates do not match, (Untrusted) is appended to the status of each applicable device, for example Warning (Untrusted). If there is a connectivity issue or a connection to the device is not trusted, (Connectivity) is appended to the status of each applicable device, for example Warning (Connectivity).

  • (Critical status icon) Critical

  • (Warning status icon) Warning

  • (Pending status icon) Pending

  • (Informational icon) Informational

  • (Normal status icon) Normal

  • (Offline status icon) Offline

  • (Unknown icon) Unknown

A device can be in one of the following power states:

  • On

  • Off

  • Shutting down

  • Standby

  • Hibernate

  • Unknown

Procedure

To view the status for a managed server, complete one or more of the following actions.

  • From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Dashboard. The dashboard page is displayed with an overview and status of all managed devices and other resources.


    Illustrates the component status summaries on the dashboard.

  • From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Hardware > Servers. The Servers page is displayed with a tabular view of all managed servers (rack and tower servers, and compute nodes).

    You can sort the table columns to make it easier to find specific servers. In addition, you can select a system type from the All Systems drop-down list, enter text (such as a name or IP address) in the Filter field, and click the status icons to list only those servers that meet the selected criteria.


    Illustrates the list of managed rack servers and compute nodes in the Servers page.
    From this page, you can perform the following actions:
    • View detailed information about the server and its components (see Viewing the details of a managed server).
    • View a server in graphical rack or chassis view clicking All Actions > Views > Show in Rack View or All Actions > Views > Show in Chassis View.
    • Launch the management controller web interface for the server by clicking the IP address link (see Launching the management controller interface for a server).
    • Remotely manage the server (see Using remote control to manage Converged, Flex System, NeXtScale, and System x servers).
    • Power the server on and off (see Powering on and off a server).
    • Modify system information by selecting a server and clicking All Actions > Inventory > Edit Properties.
    • Refresh inventory by selecting a server and clicking All Actions > Inventory > Refresh Inventory.
    • Export detailed information about one or more servers to a single CSV file by selecting the servers and clicking All Actions > Inventory > Export Inventory.
      Note
      You can export inventory data for a maximum of 60 devices at one time.
      Tip
      When importing a CSV file into Microsoft Excel, Excel treats text values that contain only numbers as numeric values (for example, for UUIDs). Format each cell as text to correct this error.
    • Unmanage a server (see Unmanaging a rack or tower server).

    • Reset the local storage adapters to their default manufacturing settings by clicking All Action > Service > Reset Local Storage to Defaults.

    • Change the Location LED state on a server to on, off, or blinking by selecting the server and clicking All Actions > Service > Toggle Location LED State, selecting the state, and clicking Apply.

      • Toggling the Location LED for ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655 servers is not supported.

      • The Location LED on ThinkServer servers can be on or off. Blinking is not supported.

    • Virtually reseat the server (see Virtually reseating a server in a Flex System chassis).
    • Exclude events that are of no interest to you from all pages on which events are displayed by clicking the Exclude events icon (Selected events icon) (see Excluding events).

    • Restart the server using a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) by clicking All Action > Service > Trigger NMI.

    • Enable or disable firewall rule changes on a server that limit incoming requests only from XClarity Administrator by selecting the server and clicking All Actions > Security > Enable Encapsulation or All Actions > Security > Disable Encapsulation.

      The global encapsulation setting is disabled by default. When disabled, the device encapsulation mode is set to normal and the firewall rules are not changed as part of the management process.

      When the global encapsulation setting is enabled and the device supports encapsulation, XClarity Administrator communicates with the device during the management process to change the device encapsulation mode to encapsulationLite and to change the firewall rules on the device to limit incoming requests to those only from XClarity Administrator.

      Attention
      If encapsulation is enabled and XClarity Administrator becomes unavailable before a device is unmanaged, necessary steps must be taken to disable encapsulation to establish communication with the device. For recovery procedures, see lenovoMgrAlert.mib file and Recovering management with a CMM after a management server failure.
    • (Converged, Flex System, NeXtScale, System x, and ThinkSystem servers only) Resolve issues that might arise between the XClarity Administrator security certificate and the security certificate of the baseboard management controller in the server by selecting a server and clicking All Actions > Security > Resolve Untrusted Certificates (see Resolving an untrusted server certificate).

    • Resolve expired or invalid stored credentials for a device in the group (see Resolving expired or invalid stored credentials for a server).

    • Add or remove a server from a static resource group by clicking All Actions > Groups > Add to Group or All Actions > Groups > Remove from Group.