General Administration
This section describes how to execute common administration tasks such as changing your password, stopping and starting services, generating log and report data, as well as other common system administration tasks.
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This section describes how to execute common administration tasks such as changing your password, stopping and starting services, generating log and report data, as well as other common system administration tasks.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu choose Show Version and press Enter.
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Press Enter to complete the process. |
You can change your Cisco UCS Director shell password by choosing Change ShellAdmin password.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose Change ShellAdmin password and press Enter. The following information is displayed:
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Enter your new UNIX password and press the Enter key. |
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Enter your new UNIX password once again and press the Enter key. The following information is displayed:
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You can synchronize the system time to the hardware time and the NTP server by choosing Time Sync.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose Time Sync. |
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Press Enter.
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Enter the NTP server hostname or IP address, and press Enter to synchronize to the NTP server.
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Press the Enter key to complete the process. |
Choose this option to apply a patch to the appliance.
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The patch file (zip file) is provided by Cisco UCS Director. Before applying a patch:
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Download the patch file
Place the file in a web server or FTP, SFTP, or SCP server
Choose Apply Patch from the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu
Provide patch URL (http://WebServer/TestPkg.zip)
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose Apply Patch and press Enter.
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Enter y, and press Enter, the services are stopped.
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If you entered n, enter the mode of transfer and press Enter and provide the required information, as follows:
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If you entered Y and press Enter the backup process starts. Enter the transfer mode and press Enter, and provide the required information.
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If you are prompted to confirm that you want to apply the patch, enter y, then press Enter.
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After the patch is applied, start the services on the appliance using the Start Services option.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose Apply Signed Patch and press Enter.
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Enter y and press Enter.
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If you entered Y and press Enter the backup process starts. Enter the transfer mode and press Enter.
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If you entered n, enter the desired patch file download protocol and press Enter and provide the required information, as follows:
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If you are prompted to confirm that you want to apply the patch, enter y, then press Enter.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose the Shutdown Appliance option and press the Enter key.
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Enter y to shut down the appliance. The following information is displayed:
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Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose the Reboot Appliance option and press the Enter key.
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Enter y to reboot the appliance. The following information is displayed:
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Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |
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For a multi-node setup, you have to install the license on the primary node only. |
A multi-node setup improves scalability by offloading the processing of system tasks, such as inventory data collection, form the primary node to one or more service nodes. You can assign certain systems tasks to one or more service nodes. The number of nodes determines how the processing of system tasks is scaled.
Node pools group service nodes and enable you to assign system tasks to more than one service node. If one service node is busy when a system task needs to be run, Cisco UCS Director uses a round-robin assignment to determine which service node should process the system task. If all, service nodes are busy, you can have the primary node run the system task.
For more information about how to configure the primary node and service nodes, and how to assign system tasks, see the Cisco UCS Director Multi-Node Installation and Configuration Guide
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose Terminate active GUI session(s) for user and press Enter.
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Enter y and press Enter.
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Enter the user name and press Enter.
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Enter a or b based on the requirement and press Enter. On Subsequent login, the user GUI session(s) will be terminated, and you are allowed to log in. |
Choose this option to allow the external clients to access the MYSQL port.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose the Grant/Deny client access to MySQL port 3306 option and press Enter.
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Enter g and press Enter.
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Enter the IP address and press Enter.
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Press Enter to return to complete the process. |
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose the Grant/Deny client access to MySQL port 3306 option and press Enter.
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Enter d and press Enter.
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Enter the IP address and press Enter.
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Press Enter to return to complete the process. |
The device connector key is the authentication key that Cisco Intersight uses to connect to the Cisco UCS Director appliance. The Cisco UCS Director appliance has an unique device connector key to identify itself. Choose this option to generate the device connector key.
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From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose the Regenerating Device Connector REST API Access Key option and press the Enter key. |
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Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |