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You can log in and work with Cisco UCS Central using both Cisco UCS Central GUI and Cisco UCS Central CLI. You can perform almost all of the Cisco UCS Central operations, with very few exceptions, using both the interfaces.
To access the Cisco UCS Central GUI, you can use both HTTP and HTTPS protocols.
Access to some features requires that a user have the required privileges. For more information, see the Cisco UCS Central configuration guides.
The following are the default HTTP and HTTPS web links to log into the Cisco UCS Central GUI.
HTTP—The default HTTP web link for the Cisco UCS Central GUI is http://UCSCentral_IP. If you are using the HTML5 UI, then the path is http://UCSCentral_IP/ui
HTTPS—The default HTTPS web link for the Cisco UCS Central GUI is https://UCSCentral_IP. . If you are using the HTML5 UI, then the path is https://UCSCentral_IP/ui
Note | UCSCentral_IP represents the IP address assigned to Cisco UCS Central. For a cluster configuration, this IP address is the virtual IP address, not one for a specific node. |
Logging Out
After you have completed your tasks on the Cisco UCS Central GUI, click Log Out on the upper right corner. The Cisco UCS Central GUI logs you out immediately and returns your browser to the launch page.
Use an SSH or telnet client to access the Cisco UCS Central CLI.
The default address to log into the Cisco UCS Central CLI is UCSCentral_IP
Note | The UCSCentral_IP in represents the IP address assigned to Cisco UCS Central. For a cluster configuration, this IP address is the virtual IP address, not one for a specific node. |
Logging Out
After you have completed your tasks on the Cisco UCS Central CLI, type exit and press enter. Continue to type exit and press enter until the window closes.
Note | Cisco UCS Central CLI clears the buffer of all uncommitted transactions when you exit. |
If you misplaced the admin password that you created for your account when you first installed the Cisco UCS Central software, you must reset your password before you can perform any admin-specific tasks. Make sure you have obtained the password reset image when obtaining the software from Cisco.com. If not, you can obtain the password reset image any time. Example of password reset image name: ucs-central-passreset.1.3.1a.iso
Note | If you have installed Cisco UCS Central in cluster mode, you must reboot both VM's, mount the ISO separately on both VM's and reset the same password in both VM's. |
Cisco recommends that each Cisco UCS Central user have a strong password. A password is required when you create each locally authenticated user account in Cisco UCS Central. A user with admin, aaa or domain-group-management privileges can configure Cisco UCS Central to perform a password strength check on the user passwords. The password that you create need to be unique.
If the password strength check is enabled, each user must have a strong password. Cisco UCS Central rejects any password that does not meet the following requirements:
Must contain a minimum of 8 characters and a maximum of 80 characters.
Must contain at least three of the following:
Must not contain a character that is repeated more than 3 times consecutively. For example: aaabbb111@@@
Must not be identical to the user name or the reverse of the user name.
Must pass password dictionary check. For example, the password must not be based on a standard dictionary word.
Must not contain the following symbols. $ (dollar sign), ? (question mark), and = (equal sign).
Must not be blank for local users and admin users.
If you are creating strong password, then the password must not contain three consecutive characters or number in any order.
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The following example shows how to reset the shared secret for Cisco UCS Central:
UCSC # connect local-mgmt UCSC(local-mgmt) # set shared-secret Enter Shared Secret: passW0rd2