Systems Director - Lenovo x3530 M4 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 buses
• Power management: Compliance with Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
• Power-on self-test (POST)
• Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) alerts on memory, microprocessors, SAS/SATA hard disk drives or
solid state drives, fans, power supplies, and VRM
• Redundant Ethernet capabilities with failover support
• Redundant hot-swap power supplies
• Redundant network interface card (NIC) support
• Remind button to temporarily turn off the system-error LED on the optional advanced operator information
panel
• 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)
• 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 (I2C) 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) 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 the following:
• Discovery
• Inventory
• Configuration
• System health
• Monitoring
• Updates
• Event notification
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