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Cisco UCS Director displays all managed components in each rack-mount server that has been added to a rack group. These components can be hardware or software.
You can view and monitor details about each component, including the following:
You can monitor specific components or view reports for each of the components, including the following:
You can configure rules in Cisco UCS Director so that an email message is triggered when faults of a certain severity occur on rack servers or rack server groups. When fault conditions specified in the rule occur, an email message is triggered and sent to the recipients you have specified. For information on configuring these email alert rules, see Configuring Email Alert Rules.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | In the left pane, expand the pod that contains the rack server group and then choose the rack server group. |
Step 3 | In the right pane, click the Rack Server tab. |
Step 4 | Choose the row of the server for which you want to view reports. |
Step 5 | In the right pane, click the Summary tab to view a wide array of tabular, graphical, and map reports that provide a view of trending data for the account. |
Step 6 | For some
reports, you can click the icons on the table bar to customize the table
columns, filter the results, or export a report of the current table contents.
For more information, see the Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide. |
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||||||||
Step 2 | Choose the Email Alert Rules tab. | ||||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Add (+). | ||||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the
Add Email
Alert Rule dialog box, complete the following fields:
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Step 5 | Click Submit. |
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.
![]() Note | 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. |
![]() Note | You must configure the scpuser password to run server diagnostics. To configure the scpuser password, see Configuring an SCP User Password. |
Perform this procedure to configure and save the location of the UCS-SCU image.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||||||
Step 2 | Choose the Server Diagnostics tab. | ||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Configure SCU Image Location. | ||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the
Configure SCU Image Location dialog box complete the
following:
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Step 5 | Click Save. | ||||||||||||
Step 6 | In the Submit Result dialog box, click OK. |
Perform this procedure when you want to run diagnostics for servers or server groups.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||
Step 2 | Choose the Server Diagnostics tab. | ||||||
Step 3 | Click Run Diagnostics. | ||||||
Step 4 | In the
Run
Diagnostics dialog box, complete the following:
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Step 5 | Click Select and select the servers or server groups from the Select dialog-box. | ||||||
Step 6 | Click Select. The selected servers or server groups are displayed next to the Server(s) or Server Group(s) field. | ||||||
Step 7 | Click Submit. | ||||||
Step 8 | In the
Submit
Result dialog box, click
OK.
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An SCP user is used by server diagnostics and tech support upload operations for transferring files to the Cisco IMC Supervisor appliance using the SCP protocol. An scp user account cannot be used to login to the Cisco IMC Supervisor UI or the shelladmin. You must create an SCP user using Putty, and then log in to the user interface to set a password.
Complete this procedure to configure a password for an SCP user.