Monitoring Lenovo Servers with Hardware Sentry
KB1172 - Sep 04, 2015
Type: Best Practice
Description: This article explains how to monitor Lenovo servers with Hardware Sentry.
Additional Keywords: IBM, IBM Systems Director Agent, Lenovo, xSeries
About Lenovo Servers
Hardware Sentry previously relied on the IBM Systems Director Agent to monitor IBM xSeries (aka IBM x86 servers). Since 2014 and the acquisition of the IBM’s x86 server business by Lenovo, IBM Systems Director cannot be used anymore to monitor these systems.
This article describes the various alternatives to the IBM Systems Director Agent leveraged by Hardware Sentry to monitor recent IBM xSeries servers and the new Lenovo System x servers.
Requirements
The Hardware Connector Library is regularly updated to include the support for new platforms, improvements, and fixed issues. To benefit from the latest updates, Sentry Software recommends installing the latest version of the Hardware Connector Library on top of the base version of Hardware Sentry KM.
Monitoring Methods
Out-of-BandPrerequisite: Connectors: |
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In-Band WindowsPrerequisite: Connectors: Known Issues: Physical Disks are discovered twice (by LsiLogic and IPMI)
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In-Band LinuxPrerequisite: Connectors: Known Issues: |
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In-Band ESX (remotely)Prerequisite: Connectors: |
 
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