Discovering and managing devices
You can discover and manage devices using Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator and assign management of those devices to a specific resource manager.
Before you begin
To perform this task, you must be a member of a user group to which the predefined Supervisor or Security Administrator role is assigned.
About this task
XClarity Orchestrator monitors and manages devices through resource managers. When you connect a resource manager, XClarity Orchestrator manages all devices that are managed by that resource manager.
You can also bring devices into management using XClarity Orchestrator. XClarity Orchestrator lists devices that were already discovered (but not managed) by the resource managers. When you manage discovered devices from XClarity Orchestrator, the devices are managed by resource manager that discovered it. When you manually discover and manage devices using IP addresses, hostnames, or subnets, you choose which resource manager you want to use to manage the devices. XClarity Management Hub can be used be used to manage ThinkEdge Client devices. Lenovo XClarity Administrator can be used to manage servers, storage, switches, and chassis.
The following devices can be discovered automatically by resource managers using a service discovery protocol.
- ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers and appliances
- ThinkEdge Servers ( SE350 and SE450)
- Flex System chassis, and ThinkSystem and Flex System devices in a Flex System chassis
- ThinkServer rack and tower servers
- System x, Converged HX, and NeXtScale servers and appliances
- Storage devices
The following devices cannot be discovered automatically by resource managers using a service discovery protocol. You must install the UDC agent on these devices before they can be securely discovered and managed.
- ThinkCentre Client
- ThinkEdge Clients
Currently, you cannot bring switches into management from XClarity Orchestrator. You also cannot unmanage Flex System switches from XClarity Orchestrator.