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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Computing System(UCS) provides unique features for the contemporary data centres. Cisco UCS is a unified solution that consolidates computing, network and storage connectivity components along-with centralized management. Cisco UCS reduces TCO and improves scalability and flexibility. Stateless computing blade server's design simplifies the troubleshooting, and Cisco-patented extended memory technology provides higher virtualized servers consolidation results. A hands-on guide to take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. With real-world examples for configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, this book will prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data centre solutions. If you want to learn and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you. Starting with the description of Cisco UCS equipment options, this hands-on guide then introduces Cisco UCS Emulator which is an excellent resource to practically learn Cisco UCS components' deployment. You will also be introduced to all areas of UCS solutions with practical configuration examples. You will also discover the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, the book dives deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. The book also presents other administration topics including Backup, Restore, user's roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, 3rd party integration tools and testing failure scenarios. You will learn everything you need to know for the rapidly growing Cisco UCS deployments in the real-world.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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.

    • The Faults tab: 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 faults:

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

    • The Events tab: Events are all the operations happening on all components such as a port configuration, a service profile association, and a VLAN configuration:

    • The Audit Logs tab: The Audit Logs tab provides...