Monitoring Cisco UCS Devices

Hello,
We have 2 setup of Cisco UCS Setup in our Company and both are located in different geographical location. (4 Fabric interconnect and 6 Chassis and 48 Blade servers)
We want to monitor whole Cisco UCS Components like Fabric Interconnect which include all ports and Expansion Module, Port utilization, Chassis with IOMs and Blade Servers, Bandwidth utilization, and power utilization so and so forth.
Please let me know if there is any tool, plugin, application is available to monitor all these components and get the reports out of them.
Regards,
Amit Vyas

Hi Craig,
I have installed Solarwinds NPM 10.1.3 Evaluation version and I am able to add Fabric Interconnect but this only give me date of following things
Average Response Time & Packet Loss
Last 10 Errors & Failures
Current Percent Utilization of Each Interface
List of VSANs
Connectivity Unit Status
However it doesn’t show the power utilization status of Fabric Interconnect
Another thing is when I was trying to add Blade Server into monitoring I was unable to do it manually hence I tried thru discovery wizard and it went successfully and blade servers got added into monitoring but it only give Average Response Time & Packet Loss nothing apart from this. Do I have to do anything else to get all relevant data for blade or I will only this much data in this in Evaluation version.
Thanks,
Amit Vyas

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Monitoring Cisco UCS Manager via HP System Information Manager 7.1 (SIM)

I am working with a customer to configure HP System Information Manager 7.1 (SIM) to monitor their Cisco UCS Manager.
The customer is looking to monitor the following:
- CPU Utilization on manager, blades, servers, etc...
- Memory utilization
- Network utilization
- System inventory
Alerting is needed for the following:
- Hardware failures: memory, power supply, drive, etc...
- Predictive failures
- Alert messages
I have the list of all the MIBs provided by Cisco but an having the following issues while loading them into HP SIM.
While loading MIB "CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-TC-MIB" I get the following error message:
Line 128: Error defining object: expected a label, found reserved symbol {
Line in MIB: SYNTAX Gauge32 {
Guage32 is imported from SNMPv2-SMI MIB
To get past this error I found a version of the MIB that removes all the textual conventions that where causing errors. I have attached the fixed MIB file to this discussion. With the fixed version of the MIB installed in SIM everything compiles and installs except the following two MIBS. CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-NOTIFS-MIBCISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-CONFORM-MIB Questions:
1. Is there any way to get the CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-TC-MIB MIB to install correctly into HP SIM?
2. Is my MIB load order setup correctly?
3. Has anyone had success getting HP SIM to monitor and alert for Cisco UCS manager?
MIB Load Order:
SNMPv2-SMI
SNMPv2-TC
SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
RFC1213-MIB
IF-MIB
CISCO-SMI
CISCO-ST-TC
ENTITY-MIB
INET-ADDRESS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-TC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-FAULT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-NOTIFS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-AAA-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-ADAPTOR-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-BIOS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-BMC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-CALLHOME-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-CAPABILITY-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-COMM-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-COMPUTE-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-CONFORM-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-DCX-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-DHCP-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-DIAG-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-DPSEC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EPQOS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EQUIPMENT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-ETHER-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EVENT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTMGMT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-EXTVMM-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-FABRIC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-FC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-FCPOOL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-FIRMWARE-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-FLOWCTRL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-HOSTIMG-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-IMGPROV-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-IMGSEC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-IPPOOL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-IQNPOOL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-ISCSI-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-LICENSE-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-LLDP-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-LSBOOT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-LSMAINT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-LS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MACPOOL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MAPPINGS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MEMORY-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-MGMT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-NETWORK-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-NWCTRL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-ORG-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-OS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-PCI-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-PKI-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-PORT-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-POWER-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-PROCESSOR-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-PROC-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-QOSCLASS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-SOL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-STATS-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-STORAGE-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-SW-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-SYSDEBUG-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-SYSFILE-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-TOP-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-TRIG-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-UUIDPOOL-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VM-MIB
CISCO-UNIFIED-COMPUTING-VNIC-MIB
References:
ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/ucs/ucs-manager-supportlist.html#_Toc303691433
http://www.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/simsnmp.pdf

Please post "debug ccsip messages".
Based on your debug you are getting "Cause No. 38 - network out of order."
You may want to bind SIP to an interface that the IP address is defined which Lync points to.
Chris

CISCO UCS state is no monitored

Hey Team,
got a new challenge to monitor CISCO UCS, as per the link below
completed all the necessary configurations but still the the state view says not monitored.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/msft_tools/scom/scom_2-6/scom_2-6_user_guide/scom_2_6_userguide.html
http://stefanroth.net/2012/06/24/scom-2012-monitoring-cisco-ucs-part-1-emulator-setup/
any ideas what might be wrong.
thanks in advance.
-vrkumar01
RajKumar

Yes on the Root folder of Cisco UCS there is an Event view called Management Pack Events. If there are events in that view take a look at them as they could be the cause of the problem. Also you should make sure SNMP is configured properly on the SCOM box
with the proper community string etc. this will also cause issues with connecting to the UCS box.
hope this helps!
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Monitoring for Cisco UCS/Cisco Catalyst/EMC VNX/VMware environment

hi
I am not sure whether this is the right place for this post, but I am giving it a shot anyway.
I am looking for a monitoring solution for a Cisco UCS/Cisco Catalyst/EMC VNX/VMware environment and I cannot seem to find 1 product that does it all.
Do any of you Guys have experience with a such product?
thanks...

I have used PRTG for Cisco Routers/Switch, Vmware and with Cisco UCS. As for the storage part I'm not sure.
I recommend prtg because its user friendly and web based management.
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Azure multiple site-to-site VPNs (dynamic gateway) with Cisco ASA devices

Hello
I've been experimenting with moving certain on-premise servers to Azure however they would need a site-to-site VPN link to our many branch sites e.g. monitoring of nodes.
The documentation says I need to configure a dynamic gateway to have multiple site-to-site VPNs. This is not a problem for our typical Cisco ISR's. However three of our key sites use Cisco ASA devices which are listed as 'Not Compatible' with dynamic routing.
So I am stuck...
What options are available to me? Is there any sort of tweak-configuration to make a Cisco ASA work with Azure and dynamic routing?
I was hoping Azure's VPN solution would be very flexible.
Thanks

Hello RTF_Admin,
1. Which is the Series of CISCO ASA device you are using?
Thank you for your interest in Windows Azure. The Dynamic routing is not supported for the Cisco ASA family of devices.
Unfortunately, a dynamic routing VPN gateway is required for Multi-Site VPN, VNet to VNet, and Point-to-Site.
However, you should be able to setup a site-to-site VPN with Cisco ASA 5505 series security appliance as demonstrated in this blog:
Step-By-Step: Create a Site-to-Site VPN between your network and Azure
http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2013/10/09/step-by-step-create-a-site-to-site-vpn-between-your-network-and-azure.aspx
You can refer to this article for Cisco ASA templates for Static routing:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn133793.aspx
If your requirement is only for Multi-Site VPN then there is no option but to upgrade the device as Multisite VPN requires dyanmic routing and unfortunately there is no tweak or workaround due to hardware compatibility issue.
I hope that this information is helpful
Thanks,
Syed Irfan Hussain

Windows 2008 R2 on Cisco UCS B200M networking problems

This is driving me completely nuts. Let me start by saying I am new to blade servers and Cisco UCS. I did take an introduction class, and it seemed straight-forward enough. I have a chassis with two B200M blades, on which I am trying to configure two Windows 2008 R2 servers, which I will eventually make Hyper-V servers. This is all in a test environment, so I can do anything I want to on them.
Right now I have installed W2008 directly on hard disks on the B200M hardware.
The problem is this: even though I think I've configured the network hardware correctly, using the Cisco VIC driver software, I cannot get networking to work in any reliable way. I cannot even get ping to work consistantly. I can ping my local server address, but I cannot ping my gateway (HSRP address). When I try, I get a "Reply from 10.100.1.x: Destination host unreachable (x being each particular server's last octet). I CAN, however, ping the individual IP addresses of the core switches. I can also ping some, but not all, the other devices that share the servers' subnet. There are no errors being generated, the arp tables (for those devices I can ping) look good, netstat looks OK. But I cannot get outside the local subnet...
Except when I can.
There are times when I can get all the way out to the Internet, and I can download patches from Microsoft. When it works, it works as expected. But if I reboot the server, oftentimes networking stops working. Yet another reboot can get things going again. This happens even though I've made no changes to either the UCS configs or the OS.
I cannot figure out any reason when it works at some times and not at others. I've made sure I have a native VLAN set, I've tried pinning to specific ports on the Fabric Interconnects. There is just no rhyme or reason to it.
Anyone know of where I can look? I'm very familiar with Windows on stand-alone boxes (although it's no longer my area of expertise), and I manage a global WAN (BGP, OSPF, Nexus 7k, etc.) so I'm no dummy when it comes to networking, but I am utterly stumped on this one.

The problem was this: while the NICs on the blade server are called vNIC0 and vNIC1, Windows was calling vNIC1 "Local Area Connection" and vNIC0 "Local Area Connection 2". So what I configured on UCS did not match what I was configuring in Windows. Completely, utterly ridiculous.
Anyway, networking is working now without any issues. Thanks for you suggestion; it did get me looking in the right direction.

Problem connecting Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 to Cisco UCS 6120

Hi all,
I ordered rackmount server(C210 M1) with Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 which I would like to connect to Cisco UCS 6120 in switching mode, but I can't make it working. Broadcom has 2 slots for SFP/SFP+ so I inserted Cisco SFP 10GBase-SR into it. I also inserted the same SFP into the Cisco 6120.
I also tried to cross the fiber but I still got no link.
I tried to lookup supported SFPs from Broadcom but have no luck so far. Can anybody help, please?
The only technical specification I found is http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1997284 . I don't know if it is reliable but I can't make much of it.
Mat

Martin,
Both the 6100 Farbric interconnect and the Broadcom support SFP+, below I have included some supporting documentation.
The first link shows the supported adapters for the C Series Servers (Overview of Cisco C-Series Adapters .pdf) which has a link to a datasheet for the broadcom. The second link provides a list of supported SFPs.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/ps10493/c-series_adapter.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/prod/collateral/modules/ps5455/data_sheet_c78-455693.html
The output of show interface brief on the fabric interconnect will display which interfaces have an SFP present, you can also use the command
show interface ethernet x/y transceiver details for more information.
If you still have issues you can use a process of elimination, change the cable, SFPs try a different port on the fabric interconnect. Plug another
supported device into the fabric interconnect to see if it comes up. You can use a similar process to rule in or out a problem with the Server.
Bill

Ask the Expert: Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Boot from SAN with FC and iSCSI

Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco UCS Troubleshooting Boot from SAN with FC and iSCSI with Vishal Mehta and Manuel Velasco.
The current industry trend is to use SAN (FC/FCoE/iSCSI) for booting operating systems instead of using local storage.
Boot from SAN offers many benefits, including:
Server without local storage can run cooler and use the extra space for other components.
Redeployment of servers caused by hardware failures becomes easier with boot from SAN servers.
SAN storage allows the administrator to use storage more efficiently.
Boot from SAN offers reliability because the user can access the boot disk through multiple paths, which protects the disk from being a single point of failure.
Cisco UCS takes away much of the complexity with its service profiles and associated boot policies to make boot from SAN deployment an easy task.
Vishal Mehta is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization TAC team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past three years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco Nexus 5000, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000v, and virtualization. He has presented at Cisco Live in Orlando 2013 and will present at Cisco Live Milan 2014 (BRKCOM-3003, BRKDCT-3444, and LABDCT-2333). He holds a master’s degree from Rutgers University in electrical and computer engineering and has CCIE certification (number 37139) in routing and switching and service provider.
Manuel Velasco is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization TAC team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past three years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000v, and virtualization. Manuel holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and VMware VCP and CCNA certifications.
Remember to use the rating system to let Vishal and Manuel know if you have received an adequate response.
Because of the volume expected during this event, our experts might not be able to answer every question. Remember that you can continue the conversation in the Data Center community, under subcommunity Unified Computing, shortly after the event. This event lasts through April 25, 2014. Visit this forum often to view responses to your questions and the questions of other Cisco Support Community members.

Hello Evan
Thank you for asking this question. Most common TAC cases that we have seen on Boot-from-SAN failures are due to misconfiguration.
So our methodology is to verify configuration and troubleshoot from server to storage switches to storage array.
Before diving into troubleshooting, make sure there is clear understanding of this topology. This is very vital with any troubleshooting scenario. Know what devices you have and how they are connected, how many paths are connected, Switch/NPV mode and so on.
Always try to troubleshoot one path at a time and verify that the setup is in complaint with the SW/HW interop matrix tested by Cisco.
Step 1: Check at server
a. make sure to have uniform firmware version across all components of UCS
b. Verify if VSAN is created and FC uplinks are configured correctly. VSANs/FCoE-vlan should be unique per fabric
c. Verify at service profile level for configuration of vHBAs - vHBA per Fabric should have unique VSAN number
Note down the WWPN of your vhba. This will be needed in step 2 for zoning on the SAN switch and step 3 for LUN masking on the storage array.
d. verify if Boot Policy of the service profile is configured to Boot From SAN - the Boot Order and its parameters such as Lun ID and WWN are extremely important
e. finally at UCS CLI - verify the flogi of vHBAs (for NPV mode, command is (from nxos) – show npv flogi-table)
Step 2: Check at Storage Switch
a. Verify the mode (by default UCS is in FC end-host mode, so storage switch has to be in NPIV mode; unless UCS is in FC Switch mode)
b. Verify the switch port connecting to UCS is UP as an F-Port and is configured for correct VSAN
c. Check if both the initiator (Server) and the target (Storage) are logged into the fabric switch (command for MDS/N5k - show flogi database vsan X)
d. Once confirmed that initiator and target devices are logged into the fabric, query the name server to see if they have registered themselves correctly. (command - show fcns database vsan X)
e. Most important configuration to check on Storage Switch is the zoning
Zoning is basically access control for our initiator to targets. Most common design is to configure one zone per initiator and target.
Zoning will require you to configure a zone, put that zone into your current zonset, then ACTIVATE it. (command - show zoneset active vsan X)
Step 3: Check at Storage Array
When the Storage array logs into the SAN fabric, it queries the name server to see which devices it can communicate.
LUN masking is crucial step on Storage Array which gives particular host (server) access to specific LUN
Assuming that both the storage and initiator have FLOGI’d into the fabric and the zoning is correct (as per Step 1 & 2)
Following needs to be verified at Storage Array level
a. Are the wwpn of the initiators (vhba of the hosts) visible on the storage array?
b. If above is yes then Is LUN Masking applied?
c. What LUN number is presented to the host - this is the number that we see in Lun ID on the 'Boot Order' of Step 1
Below document has details and troubleshooting outputs:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/115764-ucs-san-tshoot-00.html
Hope this answers your question.
Thanks,
Vishal

Ethernet controller driver not installing after Windows Server 2008 installation on Cisco UCS blade

I am using MDT 2010 to deploy Windows Server 2008 to a Cisco UCS B200 blade. The OS and hotfixes install with no problem. The system reboots and attempts to connect to the deployment share to continue with the task sequence and I receive an error stating
"A connection to the deployment share could not be made. The following networking device did not have a driver installed. PCI\VEN_1137&DEV_0043&SUBSYS_00481137&REV_A2"
The driver in question is the driver for the Ethernet controller for the UCS blade. More specifically, it is the network driver for the Palo card in the UCS Chassis. When I Ignore or Abort the install, I am able to manually install the driver and restart the
task sequence. The build then completes successfully with no further issue. I just cannot seem to automate the driver install. Has anyone dealt with this type of issue?

Vik and stealthfield - thank you for your responses.
I was preparing a script to manually move the driver into the c:\windows\inf location when I had to stop to create a new task sequence for a different build. It was while building this task sequence that I found the soulution to the problem.
In the Post Install -> Inject Drivers step of the Task Sequence, I noticed that it was executing a command of type "Inject Drivers" with a selection profile of "All Drivers" and "Install only matching drivers
from the selection profile" selected.
I changed this to run a command of type "Run Command Line" and specified that it execute "%Scriptroot%\ZTIdrivers.wsf". I noticed that this was selected in one of my other builds that was working properly, so I thought I'd
give it a try. - IT WORKED.
So to sum up, the solution was to change the type of command being executed in the "Post Install -> Inject Drivers" step of the task sequence. After this change, the machine came up and continued the task sequence with no further issues.
Thanks again for the responses - They were helpful and I do appreciate it.

Can I add my cisco UCS to my cisco prime 2.0?

Hi All
Question
Can I add my Cisco UCS to my Cisco prime 2.0?

Out of the box, PI won't do much with a UCS server other than tell you it replies to a ping.
It's not really designed to manage UCS servers - DCNM and/or UCS Director are the tools for that.
You could load the UCS server SNMP MIBs and setup some custom queries using that but it'd be more trouble than it's worth in my opinion.
Here's a link to the page showing supported devices for PI.

Want to hear about vCAC when used with Cisco UCS Director... How are you seeing this done?

I have a client that has both VMware vCloud Automation Center, and Cisco UCS Director.
They wish to constuct a net-new (Greenfield) data center and are hearing from both VMware and Cisco.
I have researched, and found little regarding the merger of the two.
I realize that very likely vCAC is teh "main" management platform, while Cisco UCSD will handle the more "physical hardware" tasks.
REST API's will be leveraged as well.
What have you seen written and done in this space when using BOTH?
Please send me any thoughts or links to relevant data.
I am having a hard time locating good data so that I an advise the client in a good way.

Bahi,
just to illustrate what mess this is, I tested for you on Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6) using the same wide gamut monitor. Here are two screenshots from that experiment. I converted the screenshots from my display profile to sRGB to show you what I see and scaled down 50% (this is a 30" behemoth). First Leopard.
You see they are all the same, but different from the sRGB export you provided. The GB sticker is too blue and the tint on the car is wrong. I doubt anybody but a photographer would notice though.
Next is Snow Leopard:
Here the 320 pixel, the 480 pixel and the 960 pixel image are different from the 720 pixel, the 720p and the 1080p ones. Neither is strictly correct as they are all different from the sRGB display. This is consistent with their being no real color management, just gamma corrections and color space transforms (video is usually not stored as RGB but as YUV, necessitating a transform for display). Annoying, but not much you can do about it.
Just doing some quick googling I came across many mentions of issues such as this. It clearly is just a big mess.

UCS C240 M4 with Cisco UCS VIC1227 VIC MLOM - Dual Port 10Gb SFP+

Hi All,
Have a few UCS C-series questions:
If I have a UCS C240 M4 rack server with Cisco UCS VIC1227 VIC MLOM - Dual Port 10Gb SFP+, but do not have fabric interconnect(s), I cannot use the UCS VIC1227 for anything, can I? The VIC ports HAVE to be connected to the FI(s) in order to be integrated with the UCS Manager. There is no local UCS manager software running on the server itself, is there?
It is useless to have this card in the server without the FI(s), isn’t it?
The OS that is going to be installed on the server is not going to see those 10GB ports on the VIC, isn’t it?
And if there are no additional PCIe NICs installed in the server, I am stuck with the two 1GB onboard NICs, is that correct?
Any input is appreciated.

do not have fabric interconnect(s), I cannot use the UCS VIC1227 for anything, can I?
The VIC 1227 can be used to integrate the server with UCSM, but that does NOT mean that is its unique function... the VIC 1227 is a CNA card that can be used whether your server is in standalone mode (no Fabric Interconnects) or integrated with UCSM.
If the server is not connected to a Fabric Interconnect (FI), it still has CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) which can be configured by attaching a monitor to the server and a keyboard, press F8 when you see the Cisco logo and then you can configure the IP, subnet, gateway, NIC mode and others... this may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQBvwO7pUU
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/e/1-0/gs/guide/b_Getting_Started_Guide/b_Getting_Started_Guide_chapter_0101.html#task_3F8535D6A9574BCD806B25FEBF44615D
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c200-m1-high-density-rack-mount-server/111455-setup-cimc-c-series.html <<< Little old but still helps.
It is useless to have this card in the server without the FI(s), isn’t it?
It is NOT useless to have the card in the server without the FIs, having the servers integrated only allows you to take advantage of the flexibility of Service Profiles but the VIC card still has the same capabilities whether you have an FI or not.
The OS that is going to be installed on the server is not going to see those 10GB ports on the VIC, isn’t it?
See above
And if there are no additional PCIe NICs installed in the server, I am stuck with the two 1GB onboard NICs, is that correct?
Same answer as above
Let me know if you have further questions. IF I covered everything, please mark the question as "answered" for future users with the same doubts.
-Kenny

Cisco UCS C220 M3S Server OS random shutdowns

Hello good day, I am facing some issues with the Cisco UCS indicated in the subject, I have created a Raid 1 beetwen 2 HDD's of 1 TB each one, also upgraded the firmware of the UCS with the 2.0(3f) HUU tools, and upgraded everything. Then I installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Eval version (I have a proper license to install but wanted to test the OS first). Now some times the OS/Server just shutsdown, and whenever I go in to the Web GUI to check it out, it's actually powered down, I have checked the "Faults and Logs" --> System Event Logs, and I can see this happening:
*The timestamp is from below to the top on both logs*
MAIN_POWER_PRS: Presence sensor, Device Removed / Device Absent was asserted
Microsoft OEM event data record, Record type: DD, Sensor Number: 0A, Event Data: 00 00 00, Raw SEL: 37 01 00 35 0A 00 00 00 00
(About this message with the HEX Values, it's always repeating it self with other values)
System Software event: OS Stop sensor, OS Graceful Shutdown was asserted
In the IMC Log this is what showed when it powered down:
Bridge.c:1484:audit Resp:0x0
Bridge.c:1478:audit from:kcs Fn:0x0 Cmd:0x6 Data: 0x30 0x4
obj/../../src/BiosSecureBootAgent.cc:101:BiosSecureBootAgent --> m_valid_state = [ 0 ] #012 m_enable_state = [ 0 ] #012 m_setupMode_state = [ 1 ] #012 m_secureBoot_state = [ 0 ]
obj/../../src/BiosSecureBootAgent.cc:63:get=uefiSecureBootState Received
bootordermgnt.cpp:2392:WriteBIOSDeviceCfg: Successfully renamed file: /mnt/jffs2/ConfigPolicy.xml.bak to /mnt/jffs2/ConfigPolicy.xml
bootordermgnt.cpp:1310:StoreDeviceCfg: Successfully renamed file: /mnt/jffs2/avct_ems_cfg/BMC_Data/BOOTDEV.DAT.bak to /mnt/jffs2/avct_ems_cfg/BMC_Data/BOOTDEV.DAT
bootordermgnt.cpp:2392:WriteBIOSDeviceCfg: Successfully renamed file: /mnt/jffs2/ConfigPolicy.xml.bak to /mnt/jffs2/ConfigPolicy.xml
bootordermgnt.cpp:1310:StoreDeviceCfg: Successfully renamed file: /mnt/jffs2/avct_ems_cfg/BMC_Data/BOOTDEV.DAT.bak to /mnt/jffs2/avct_ems_cfg/BMC_Data/BOOTDEV.DAT
bootordermgnt.cpp:2392:WriteBIOSDeviceCfg: Successfully renamed file: /mnt/jffs2/ConfigPolicy.xml.bak to /mnt/jffs2/ConfigPolicy.xml
bootordermgnt.cpp:1310:StoreDeviceCfg: Successfully renamed file: /mnt/jffs2/avct_ems_cfg/BMC_Data/BOOTDEV.DAT.bak to /mnt/jffs2/avct_ems_cfg/BMC_Data/BOOTDEV.DAT
bootordermgnt.cpp:1367:No Precision Boot DB exists..migrate old relase configuration to Precision Boot format!
sanluis1/platform.c:116:platform_event_enable_tick_end: Configuring IR from CIMC
(A bunch of these with other values) common.c:945:Enabling sensor scan for sensor 0x85.
lv_dimm.c:403:[handle_event_enable_tick]enable sensor event
lv_dimm.c:220:[transition_function]Transition to [High Voltage Mode] Success
lv_dimm.c:200:[transition_function]Starting Transition to [High Voltage Mode] from [Unknown Mode]
(A lot of these with different values) common.c:940:Disabling Sensor scan for sensor 0x89.
lv_dimm.c:129:[lpc_reset_seen]LPC Reset Count is Different [0x15:0x16] Asserted LPC Reset Seen
selparser.c:678: # 1D 03 00 00 01 02 00 00 DB F7 EF 54 20 00 04 25 05 00 00 00 08 00 FF FF # 31d | 02/27/2015 04:51:39 | CIMC | Entity presence MAIN_POWER_PRS #0x05 | Device Absent | Asserted
Received event_ipmi_power_state_change Event (type=4, size=0)
video_trigger.c:262:Sending event_ipmi_power_state_change (OFF) .
WatchdogTimer.c:1467:Current Configuration of Watchdog timer is now stopped.
Pilot2SrvPower.c:466:Blade Power Changed To: [ OFF ]
<5>[se_pilot2_wakeup_interrupt]:2561:USB HS: VDD Power = OFF
<6>drivers/bmc/usb/usb1.1/se_pilot2_udc_usb1_1.c:2540:USB 1.1 is now disconnected.
<5>drivers/bmc/usb/usb1.1/se_pilot2_udc_usb1_1.c:2288:USB FS: VDD Power WAKEUP- Power Good = OFF
<7>[slp_state_isr]:117:Signals SLP3n[ Asserted ] SLP5n[ Asserted ]
<6>[platform_power_state_irq_handler]:18:VDD_PWR_GOOD: Deasserted
In the event viewer of the Windows Server 2012
This is the UCS specifications:
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v2 @ 2.50GHz
CPU2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v2 @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 16 GB
There is something really itching, is it because I have Evaluation version of the Windows Server...?
Regards.

Ok, I feel kind of dumb now, I have checked the tech evaluation page on Microsoft, and if it's not connected to the internet it will not inherit the three months evaluation trial, which I thought would come activated already, and only allows you up to 10 days grace period with the rearm command .... :/
The process C:\Windows\system32\wlms\wlms.exe (WIN-UDPFG5O0K37) has initiated the shutdown of computer WIN-UDPFG5O0K37 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Other (Planned)
Reason Code: 0x80000000
Shutdown Type: shutdown
Comment: The license period for this installation of Windows has expired. The operating system is shutting down.
This is what made me check it out today, I will connect it to the internet and let it activate... Meanwhile the command for the 10 days grace is:
Slmgr /rearm
Shutdown –r
Like always.

Cisco UCS - Syslog /Trap vs Event Subcription

Cisco UCS allows for clients to subscribe for XML based events that can be used to receive configuration change information over http/https. Is the same/similar information available via Syslog messages or SNMP traps from UCS? If not, what information is available via the Syslog messages or Trap notifications ? Also is the Syslog or Snmp trap functionality supported in the Cisco UCSM simulators ?

You can set SNMP traps to monitor fans, power supplies, and temperature settings, or to test a call home application. Use the following commands to set SNMP traps:
test pfmtest-SNMP-trap fan
test pfmtest-SNMP-trap power supply
test pfmtest-SNMP-trap temp-sensor
SNMP Traps and Informs:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/mib/reference/UCS_MIBRef.html#wp75887
Set up Syslog for Cisco UCS:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10281/products_configuration_example09186a0080ae0f24.shtml

Cisco UCS Managment interface

Hi Dear
Which is the function of the management interface of a Cisco UCS server? Only monitoring ?
Best Regards

Hi,
The management interface present in the Cisco UCS C-Series is a out-of-band interface that provides to you access to Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) where you can perform all management/monitoring tasks related the hardware set.
You can find more information about the CIMC in this link:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c-series-integrated-management-controller/tsd-products-support-series-home.html
Regards,
Richard

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