Overview of Server Diagnostics
Server diagnostics is available through UCS Server Configuration Utility (UCS-SCU). You can use diagnostics tools to diagnose hardware problems with your Cisco servers and run tests on various server components to find out hardware issues along with analysis of the test results in a tabular format.
You must download, configure, and save the UCS-SCU image to a remote location.
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Running a diagnostic test using the UCS-SCU image results in the server being temporarily unavailable as the server reboots with the UCS-SCU image. |
Cisco IMC Supervisor gives you the ability to have multiple diagnostic images set up across different geographic locations where the servers are present. Diagnostics run much faster as this facilitates a low latency network between a server and the image within that location.
When you run diagnostics on any rack server, it reboots with the UCS-SCU image hosted on the location you have configured. The diagnostics tabular report displays the status of diagnostics for each server on which you have run diagnostics. Also, details of the server, the date and time the report was generated, diagnostics status and so on are displayed. You can delete or download diagnostic reports for a single or for multiple servers.
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You must configure the SFTP user password to run server diagnostics. To configure the SFTP user password, see Configuring SFTP User Password. |