Summary
This monitor regularly checks for the overall health state of the specific system management controller
on the given system. It also checks the compatibility state of the system management software.
This monitor reports system management controller hardware problems that occurred
before the system started being monitored. It also determines whether to close the
pending alerts associated with the system management controller, or to reset the state of the
monitors for the system management controller.
Configuration
You can disable this monitor through the Operations Manager's Operations
Console. See the "Disable monitors" topic in the Operations Manager's
Operations User's Guide for more information.
You can also change the interval between the health checkups by overriding the value of
the "IntervalSeconds" parameter of the monitor. See the "Override" topic in the Operations
Manager's Operations User's Guide.
The hardware event with this monitor is available only on an Lenovo system
with the appropriate hardware sensors and with a management controller
(also called a Service Processor), such as Integrated Management Module
(IMM), Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), Remote Supervisor Adapter
(RSA), or an equivalent management controller on an older Lenovo system.
This monitor depends on hardware instrumentation software, namely the
IBM Director Platform Agent (also called Core Services) and the Intelligent
Platform Management Interface (IPMI) driver stack. This software raises
the hardware event to the WMI level, so that the monitor can be notified.
On certain configurations, the RSA daemon can be used in place of, or
in parallel with, the IPMI driver stack. See the "Additional Information"
section below for more information about Lenovo Director Platform Agent,
the IPMI driver stack and the RSA daemon.
Causes
When the BIOS is not compatible with the system's operating system, a generic hardware event is generated. The health state of this monitor is then set to the Critical or Warning state.
For a particular incident, review the history in the State Changes tab. Consult the relevant hardware
knowledge articles listed below, keeping in mind the relevant event data.
The relevant Lenovo hardware knowledge articles are available on a system with the Lenovo Hardware Management Pack
package installed.
Resolutions
Review the health checkup report's details
about the system management controller.
Contact Lenovo support (see links below) if the reports or relevant articles do not provide enough
information to help you resolve the hardware problem.
After the hardware problem is resolved, the overall health state of this monitor is automatically restored
to the Healthy state. However, you must manually close any corresponding alerts that might have occurred.
Additional
IBM Director Platform Agent
IMM, BMC and IPMI driver stack
IBM RSA-II and the RSA-II daemon
External
Links to Lenovo resources
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