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Cisco IMC Supervisor is a management system that allows you to manage rack mount servers on a large scale. It allows you to create groups of rack mount servers for monitoring and inventory purposes.
Support for logical grouping of servers and summary views per group
Collect inventory for the servers
Provide monitoring capabilities for servers and groups
Firmware management including firmware download, upgrade, and activation
Manage standalone server actions including power control, LED control, log collection, KVM launch, CIMC UI launch and e-mail alerts
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to restrict access
Policy driven configuration
This guide describes all of the commands available to you when logging into the Cisco IMC Supervisor shell. You can use these commands to perform the following administrative tasks:
Changing ShellAdmin password
Display Service Status
Stopping/starting all Cisco services
Stopping/starting the MySQL database
Backing up/restoring the appliance database
Synching up time
Pinging hostname/IP address
Version (Cisco IMC Supervisor appliance version)
Importing CA (JKS) file
Configuring network interface
Displaying network details
Troubleshooting by using Tail Inframgr logs
Applying a patch to the appliance
Shutting down the Appliance
Rebooting the Appliance
Manage Root Access
Login as Root
Clean Up Patch Files
Quitting the shell
For additional system administration information refer to the Cisco IMC Supervisor Rack-Mount Servers Management Guide.
To successfully execute the commands described in this guide, Cisco IMC Supervisor should be up and running (and reachable).
Note | The information in this guide is based on Cisco IMC Supervisor, release 1.0 and later releases. |
The login procedure requires the use of a Secure Shell (SSH) client and the correct login credentials. After gaining access to the Cisco IMC Supervisor appliance you can perform a wide variety of system administration tasks.
Obtain proper access to a Cisco IMC Supervisor appliance and a secure shell (SSH) application.