Systems Director - Lenovo x3550 M5 Installation And Service Manual

• Microprocessor built-in self-test (BIST), internal error signal monitoring, internal thermal trip signal
monitoring, configuration checking, and microprocessor and voltage regulator module failure identification
through light path diagnostics
• Nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) button
• Parity checking on the small computer system interface (SCSI) bus and PCI-E and PCI buses
• Power management: Compliance with Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
• Power-on self-test (POST)
• Proactive Platform Alerts (including Predictive Failure Analysis and Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology alerts): microprocessors, voltage regulators, memory, internal storage (SAS/SATA
hard disk drives and solid-state drives, M.2 storage, flash storage adapters), fans, power supplies, RAID
controllers, and server ambient and sub-component temperatures
• Redundant Ethernet capabilities with failover support
• Redundant hot-swap power supplies and redundant hot-swap fans
• Redundant network interface card (NIC) support
• Remind button to temporarily turn off the system-error LED
• Remote system problem-determination support
• ROM-based diagnostics
• ROM checksums
• Serial Presence Detection (SPD) on memory, VPD on system board, power supply, and hard disk drive or
solid state drive backplanes, microprocessor and memory expansion tray, and Ethernet cards
• Single-DIMM isolation of excessive correctable error or multi-bit error by the Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI)
• Solid state drives
• Standby voltage for system-management features and monitoring
• Startup (boot) from LAN through remote initial program load (RIPL) or dynamic host configuration
protocol/boot protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
• System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
• System-error logging (POST and IMM)
• Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (IC) protocol bus
• Uncorrectable error (UE) detection
• Upgradeable POST, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), diagnostics, IMM firmware, and
read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the LAN
• Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system board, power supplies, and SAS/SATA (hot-swap
hard disk drive or solid state drive) backplane
• Wake on LAN capability

Systems Director

Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the way you manage physical and
virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment. By using industry standards, Systems Director supports
multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies in Lenovo and non-Lenovo x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, Systems Director provides consistent views for viewing managed systems,
determining how these systems relate to one other, and identifying their statuses, helping to correlate
technical resources with business needs. A set of common tasks that are included with Systems Director
provides many of the core capabilities that are required for basic management, which means instant
out-of-the-box business value. The common tasks include discovery, inventory, configuration, system
health, monitoring, updates, event notification, automation for managed systems, hardware log, power, and
light path.
The Systems Director Web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent interface that is focused
on driving these common tasks and capabilities:
• Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed inventory and
relationships to the other network resources
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