Lenovo ThinkSystems Servers - Anyone currently monitoring, if so and how?

Hi,

We're looking to migrate our data-center to Lenovo hardware. We're currently about 60% VMWare and 40% physical Windows and Linux. On the VMWare side, we're getting hardware heath through the VMWare API integration.

But, on the physical Windows and Linux boxes I've been unable to find any working hardware monitoring solutions. I wanted to reach out and see, is anyone else monitoring Lenovo servers, DE's, anything Lenovo not through vmware?

We have the feature request in to see if we can get xClarity API integration, but wanted to see if anyone has a makeshift solution in place currently.

Thanks!

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serena

Hi! I was thinking through your request and found this older thread from one of our THWACK MVPs for you to try, which is an alternate solution to using Lenovo xClarity https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/SAM-Hardware-Health-Supports-Lenovo-ThinkServer/m-p/387693#M36240

natomaster

Hi @serena,

Yes, I was finally able to download the IBM Platform Agent, with the help of this Lenovo Documentation: https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.lenovo.lxci_hwmp_scom.doc%2Fhwmp_monitor_health_via_platformagent.html

You do have to sign in with an IBM account, looking for SysDir6_3_7_Platform_Agent_Windows. Despite the agent not officially supporting Server 2016, it installed fine and started reporting some date depending on polling method. WMI showed disk status and most of the hardware, while SNMP showed service tag but no drive info...not sure how many models this will work with, but seems to partially work for the ThinkSystem SR630.

This gives us some visibility into Physical Windows Lenovo Boxes. Would still love to see health integration with their other devices like the ThinkSystem DE2000H, etc.

Thanks for the help!

serena

Excellent, I'm glad there's some visibility. I'll reach out to you to follow up once I've got working concepts for the health of the other lenovo systems to run by you.

rpc_superfos

Hi @serena

We are also looking into monitoring Lenovo Thinksystem servers and SAN's like the DE2000H.

The servers will run Windows Server 2019.

What are our options currently with SolarWinds and are there any plans for native hardware health monitors for Lenovo?

Thanks

/Martin