Lenovo x3550 M5 - Systems Director

•Microprocessorbuilt-inself-test(BIST),internalerrorsignalmonitoring,internalthermaltripsignal
monitoring,configurationchecking,andmicroprocessorandvoltageregulatormodulefailureidentification
throughlightpathdiagnostics
•Nonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)button
•Paritycheckingonthesmallcomputersysteminterface(SCSI)busandPCI-EandPCIbuses
•Powermanagement:CompliancewithAdvancedConfigurationandPowerInterface(ACPI)
•Power-onself-test(POST)
•ProactivePlatformAlerts(includingPredictiveFailureAnalysisandSelf-Monitoring,Analysisand
ReportingTechnologyalerts):microprocessors,voltageregulators,memory,internalstorage(SAS/SATA
harddiskdrivesandsolid-statedrives,M.2storage,flashstorageadapters),fans,powersupplies,RAID
controllers,andserverambientandsub-componenttemperatures
•RedundantEthernetcapabilitieswithfailoversupport
•Redundanthot-swappowersuppliesandredundanthot-swapfans
•Redundantnetworkinterfacecard(NIC)support
•Remindbuttontotemporarilyturnoffthesystem-errorLED
•Remotesystemproblem-determinationsupport
•ROM-baseddiagnostics
•ROMchecksums
•SerialPresenceDetection(SPD)onmemory,VPDonsystemboard,powersupply,andharddiskdriveor
solidstatedrivebackplanes,microprocessorandmemoryexpansiontray,andEthernetcards
•Single-DIMMisolationofexcessivecorrectableerrorormulti-biterrorbytheUnifiedExtensibleFirmware
Interface(UEFI)
•Solidstatedrives
•Standbyvoltageforsystem-managementfeaturesandmonitoring
•Startup(boot)fromLANthroughremoteinitialprogramload(RIPL)ordynamichostconfiguration
protocol/bootprotocol(DHCP/BOOTP)
•Systemauto-configuringfromtheconfigurationmenu
•System-errorlogging(POSTandIMM)
•Systems-managementmonitoringthroughtheInter-IntegratedCircuit(IC)protocolbus
•Uncorrectableerror(UE)detection
•UpgradeablePOST,UnifiedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI),diagnostics,IMMfirmware,and
read-onlymemory(ROM)residentcode,locallyorovertheLAN
•Vitalproductdata(VPD)onmicroprocessors,systemboard,powersupplies,andSAS/SATA(hot-swap
harddiskdriveorsolidstatedrive)backplane
•WakeonLANcapability
SystemsDirector
SystemsDirectorisaplatform-managementfoundationthatstreamlinesthewayyoumanagephysicaland
virtualsystemsinaheterogeneousenvironment.Byusingindustrystandards,SystemsDirectorsupports
multipleoperatingsystemsandvirtualizationtechnologiesinLenovoandnon-Lenovox86platforms.
Throughasingleuserinterface,SystemsDirectorprovidesconsistentviewsforviewingmanagedsystems,
determininghowthesesystemsrelatetooneother,andidentifyingtheirstatuses,helpingtocorrelate
technicalresourceswithbusinessneeds.AsetofcommontasksthatareincludedwithSystemsDirector
providesmanyofthecorecapabilitiesthatarerequiredforbasicmanagement,whichmeansinstant
out-of-the-boxbusinessvalue.Thecommontasksincludediscovery,inventory,configuration,system
health,monitoring,updates,eventnotification,automationformanagedsystems,hardwarelog,power,and
lightpath.
TheSystemsDirectorWebandcommand-lineinterfacesprovideaconsistentinterfacethatisfocused
ondrivingthesecommontasksandcapabilities:
•Discovering,navigating,andvisualizingsystemsonthenetworkwiththedetailedinventoryand
relationshipstotheothernetworkresources
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