System Monitoring Overview
This guide describes how to configure and use system monitoring to manage a Cisco UCS Manager environment.
Cisco UCS Manager can detect system faults: critical, major, minor, and warnings. We recommend that:
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You monitor all faults of either critical or major severity status, as immediate action is not required for minor faults and warnings.
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You monitor faults that are not of type Finite State Machine (FSM), as FSM faults will transition over time and resolve.
This guide covers the following information:
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System Log
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System logs including faults, failures, and alarm thresholds (Syslog)
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The three types of Syslogs: Fault, Event, and Audit logs
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The Global Fault Policy and settings that control Syslogs
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System Event Log
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System hardware events for servers and chassis components and their internal components (System Event Log [SEL] logs)
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The SEL policy that controls SEL logs
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Simple Network Management Protocol
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SNMP for monitoring devices from a central network management station and the host and user settings
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Fault suppression policies for SNMP traps, Call Home notifications, and specific devices
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Core File Exporter and logs, such as Syslog, Audit Log, and the System Event Log
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Statistics Collection and Threshold Policies for adapters, chassis, host, ports, and servers
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Call Home and Smart Call Home Cisco embedded device support
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Hardware monitoring using the Cisco UCS Manager user interface
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Traffic Monitoring sessions for analysis by a network analyzer
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Cisco Netflow Monitor for IP network traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning, security, Denial of Service monitoring capabilities, and network monitoring