Regular health checkup monitor for BIOS requires an update for management controller to function
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.
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.
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.
BIOS/UEFI needs update for IPMI-compliant management controller
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.
IBM Director Platform Agent
IMM, BMC and IPMI driver stack
IBM RSA-II and the RSA-II daemon
Links to Lenovo resources
Target | IBM.SystemX.MgmtController | ||
Parent Monitor | System.Health.AvailabilityState | ||
Category | Custom | ||
Enabled | True | ||
Alert Generate | True | ||
Alert Severity | MatchMonitorHealth | ||
Alert Priority | Normal | ||
Alert Auto Resolve | True | ||
Monitor Type | IBM.SystemX.MgmtController.BIOS.Incompatible.MonitorType | ||
Remotable | True | ||
Accessibility | Public | ||
Alert Message |
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RunAs | Default |
<UnitMonitor ID="IBM.SystemX.MgmtController.BIOS.Incompatible" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="IBM.SystemX.MgmtController" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="IBM.SystemX.MgmtController.BIOS.Incompatible.MonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="false">
<Category>Custom</Category>
<AlertSettings AlertMessage="IBM.SystemX.MgmtController.BIOS.Incompatible.AlertMessageResourceID">
<AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>
<AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>
<AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>
<AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>
</AlertSettings>
<OperationalStates>
<OperationalState ID="Healthy" MonitorTypeStateID="Healthy" HealthState="Success"/>
<OperationalState ID="Warning" MonitorTypeStateID="Warning" HealthState="Warning"/>
<OperationalState ID="Critical" MonitorTypeStateID="Error" HealthState="Error"/>
</OperationalStates>
<Configuration>
<IntervalSeconds>7200</IntervalSeconds>
<TimeoutSeconds>300</TimeoutSeconds>
</Configuration>
</UnitMonitor>