Manage the switches (Mellanox switches currently cannot be
managed by LXCA)
Once the servers
are managed, Lenovo switches can be managed as well. For this topic,
you will need the switch credentials as well as the IP addresses used
to manage the three switches in the solution.
To manage the switches,
follow these steps:
At the top menu of the XClarity Administrator, select Hardware > Discover and Manage New
Devices.
Click Manual Input.
In the Manual Input window, enter the IP address for the
BMC switch, then click OK.
Figure 1. Manual Input window
In the Manage window, click Manage stored credentials.
Figure 2. Manage stored credentials control
In the Stored credentials management window, click the Create new stored credentials button ( ).
Enter the user name, password, and description for the
BMC switch, and click Create Stored Credential. Switch credentials set during Azure Stack Hub deployment should be listed in the Customer Deployment Summary document from the Lenovo Professional Services engineer who deployed
the solution.
Figure 3. Create Stored Credential control
Click Close in the success confirmation
window.
Back in the Stored credentials management window, select the radio button to the left of the BMC switch credentials
that were just created, and then click Select.
Figure 4. Selecting new BMC switch credentials
Back in the Manage window, verify
that the correct stored credential is selected in the drop-down list,
and then click Manage. An ‘enable’ password
is not used on the BMC switch.
Figure 5. Manage new BMC switch credential
A progress window opens to display progress of the management
action. Once the action completes, click Close.
Figure 6. Management action progress window
Repeat steps 2-10 to manage the TOR switches. An ‘enable’
password is not required for the TOR switches since all switches running
CNOS are managed via REST API. Note that if the user credentials are
identical for both TOR switches, you can manage them both using a
single additional stored credential.
Figure 7. Manual input with multiple systems
Otherwise, each TOR switch will need to be managed individually
with its own unique credential.
Once management of all three switches is complete, XClarity
Administrator displays them in a manner very similar to any managed
server.