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Change Log

Version Change

3/13/2012 Initial release

6/12/2012 Add updated features for version 4.1 (updates in pp 12, 13)

2/11/2013 Removed potential HDS upgrade path. Removed Lenovo “Confidential” from the template.

4/8/2013 Update offering definition to match current server portfolio plans

9/10/2013 Update OS & systems support (v4.2.1)

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ThinkServer EasyManage Overview

ThinkServer EasyManage provides:

Web based interface to centralized core server

Simplified, logical network topology view – see all Lenovo servers from a single console

Hardware health & performance monitoring (in band & out of band) for Lenovo ThinkServers, and installed applications from a single screen

- Temperature, voltage, fan speed

- CPU utilization, memory, free space, & network

Access to ThinkServer remote control features

Agentless architecture – means faster, easier deployment

User-defined alerting and scheduled monitoring – Hardware alerts supported through IPMI even when the OS is locked

System discovery and change monitoring

A system performance and availability monitoring tool delivered through a single unified

interface for simple IT monitoring

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Offering Definition

Available from Lenovo.com

No license fee / No activation required

Each ThinkServer EasyManage instance (license) supports 1000 ThinkServer

managed nodes

Monitoring of Server OS and TMM counts as two nodes

Supported Servers

TS430

RD330/RD430

RD530/RD630

RD340/RD440

RD540/RD640

Non-Lenovo systems not supported

Supported Languages

English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish

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EasyManage Unified Web-based Interface

Enables the user to easily and

continuously view status of Lenovo

ThinkServers

Summarizes availability and

performance data through

dashboard screen

User installable and wizard-based

GUI

Automated reporting for

ThinkServer

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Central Management – Network Path View

Logical network topology view

displays all Lenovo systems and

network connections

Automatically discovers all

ThinkServers

Server configuration and the

operating status of each server can

be seen at a glance

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Health and Performance Monitoring

Monitors ThinkServer system health - Hardware sensor data from IPMI

Monitors application performance by evaluating key system components utilization - CPU, memory, disk, and network

Alert provided in the console and by email notification - Comprehensive events data from

both OS and hardware error logs

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Access to ThinkServer Remote Features

Customizable link and launch

capability to external tools (e.g.

RDP, Telnet sessions)

Quick links to ThinkServer

Management Module web interface

Quick links to remotely control

ThinkServer power

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“Agentless” Architecture

No footprint in managed devices - Eliminates disruption of installing software

agents to perform monitoring activities

- No performance or maintenance impact caused by agent software

Faster, easier deployment - Uses wizard-based discovery configuration

- Simplifies configurations and, unlike agent based software, does not require reboot of servers for installation or updates

Uses industry standards interface-based monitoring including SMI-S, SNMP, WMI and SSH

No agents required for monitored IT components

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User-defined Alerting and Scheduled Monitoring

Define 2 types of threshold settings

for scheduled monitoring – for

example:

- BAU or business-hour monitoring

- off-peak monitoring (holidays and

weekends)

Define thresholds with templates

based on application or group

requirements

Sends email alerts automatically for

threshold violations

Generates and delivers alert

reports at user-defined time

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Additional Features

Monitors, Tracks Configuration Changes

- Monitors changes in managed ThinkServers, helping to avoid service degradation or

downtime

- Clearly displays changes for a specified time range in the topology view

Supports Multiple Platforms

- Enables performance and availability monitoring of multiple operating systems,

including Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE, and virtualization platforms from

Microsoft and VMWare

Supports RMCP and RMCP+

- Supports both the standard and enhanced protocols for transferring IPMI messages

and other types of payloads to an IPMI-based BMC over IP

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Additional Features (continued)

Hardware Alert (Asynchronous Events)

- Alert can be received via IPMI when hardware error happens.

BMC SEL

- Provides detailed SEL information on the basic operations, as well as

instructions on filtering and exporting system logs

OS SEL

- Shows information contained in the system event log from Windows and

message log from Linux.

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OS’s supported on Managed Systems (v4.2.1)

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (32 & 64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32 & 64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011

Hyper-V version 1.0, 2.0. 3.0

RHEL 5.0, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 (32 & 64-bit)

RHEL 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 (32 & 64-bit)

SLES 10 (32 & 64-bit)

SLES 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 (32 & 64-bit)

VMware ESX 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1

VMware ESXi 3.0, 3.5

VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1

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