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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By : Anuj Modi, Prasenjit Sarkar
Book Image

Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions - Second Edition

By: Anuj Modi, Prasenjit Sarkar

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computer System (UCS) is a powerful solution for modern data centers and is responsible for increasing efficiency and reducing costs. This hands-on guide will take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. Using real-world examples of configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, we’ll prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data center solutions. If you want to develop and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you. We start by showing you the Cisco UCS equipment options then introduce Cisco UCS Emulator so you can learn and practice deploying Cisco UCS components. We’ll also introduce you to all the areas of UCS solutions through practical configuration examples. Moving on, you’ll explore the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, you’ll dive deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. You’ll also get hands-on with administration topics including backup, restore, user’s roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, third-party integration tools, and testing failure scenarios. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to know to rapidly grow Cisco UCS deployments in the real world.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Configuring logging


There are three major categories of the information collected by UCS Manager. These logs are accessible through the Admin tab in the navigation pane.

Perform the following procedure to access the logs:

  1. Log in to UCS Manager.
  2. Click to expand the Admin tab in the navigation pane.
  3. In the Admin tab, click on Faults, Events and Audit Log to expand its content.
  4. Click on the individual expanded tabs in the navigation pane or individual horizontal tabs in the work pane to expand the details of each category:
  • Faults: The Faults tab shows all the faults occurring on all UCS components. Individual faults are shown for each component when you are in the components view and this tab provides details of all the faults:

    You may check or uncheck individual categories to filter the results.

    • Events: Events are all the operations happening on all components such as a port configuration, a service profile association, and a VLAN configuration:
      • Audit Logs: The Audit Logs tab provides the audit trail...