Most of the policy configurations are assigned to the servers by assigning those policies to service profiles associated with physical servers. There are a few global configuration policies for UCS infrastructure that are not assigned to servers but are necessary for proper functioning of all the components.
These policies include the following:
Chassis/FEX Discovery Policy
Power Policy
MAC Address Table Aging
DNS Server
Time Zone Management
SNMP
These policies are configured under various Navigation pane tabs. We will now look into the configuration of each of these policies.
This is the first policy needed to be configured so that the UCS chassis is detected by the UCSM software. It has been highlighted in the following screenshot:
Following are the steps to configure this policy:
Log in to the UCSM screen.
Click on the Equipment tab in the Navigation pane.
Select Policies from the Work pane and click on Global Policies.
In the Chassis/FEX Discovery...