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This chapter contains the following sections:
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.
You can change your Cisco UCS Director shell password by choosing Change ShellAdmin password.
You can synchronize the system time to the hardware time and the NTP server by choosing Time Sync.
Choose this option to apply a patch to the appliance.
After the patch is applied, start the services on the appliance using the Start Services option.
Step 1 | From the
Cisco UCS Director
Shell menu, choose the
Shutdown
Appliance option and press the
Enter key.
Do you want to Shutdown appliance [y/n] ?: |
Step 2 | Enter
y to shut down the appliance. The following
information is displayed:
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Thu Sep 15 13:34:33 2013) The system is shutting down NOW! |
Step 3 | Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |
Step 1 | From the
Cisco UCS Director
Shell menu, choose the
Reboot
Appliance option and press the
Enter key.
Do you want to Reboot appliance [y/n] ?: |
Step 2 | Enter
y to reboot the appliance. The following information
is displayed:
Rebooting the Cisco UCS Director Appliance... Broadcast message from root (pts/5) (Wed Sep 18 13:12:06 2013): The system is going down for reboot NOW! Rebooting sucessful Press return to continue... |
Step 3 | Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |
Note | 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