Contents

• Overview
• Overview of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
• Cisco Integrated Management Controller
• CIMC CLI
• Command Modes
• Command Mode Table
• Complete a Command
• Command History
• Committing, Discarding, and Viewing Pending Commands
• Command Output Formats
• Online Help for the CLI

Overview

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This chapter includes the following sections:

• Overview of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
• Cisco Integrated Management Controller
• CIMC CLI
• Command Modes
• Online Help for the CLI

Overview of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers

Following are the Cisco UCS C-Series rack-mount servers:

• Cisco UCS C200 M1 Rack-Mount Server

• Cisco UCS C210 M1 Rack-Mount Server

• Cisco UCS C250 M1 Rack-Mount Server

UCS C200 M1 Rack-Mount Server

The Cisco UCS C200 M1 server is a high-density, two-socket, 1 RU rack-mount server. This server is built for production-level network infrastructure, web services, and mainstream data centers, and branch and remote-office applications.

UCS C210 M1 Rack-Mount Server

The Cisco UCS C210 M1 server is a general-purpose, two-socket, 2 RU rack-mount server. It is designed to balance performance, density, and efficiency for storage-intensive workloads. This server is built for applications such as network file and appliances, storage, database, and content-delivery.

UCS C250 M1 Rack-Mount Server

The Cisco UCS C250 M1 server is a high-performance, memory-intensive, two-socket, 2 RU rack-mount server. It is designed to increase performance, and it has the capacity for demanding virtualization and large-data-set workloads. The C250 M1 server also can reduce the cost of smaller memory footprints.

Cisco Integrated Management Controller

The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) is the management service for the C-Series servers. CIMC runs within the server.

Management Interfaces

You can use a web-based GUI or SSH-based CLI to access, configure, administer, and monitor the server. Almost all tasks can be performed in either interface, and the results of tasks performed in one interface are displayed in another. However, you cannot do the following:

• Use CIMC GUI to invoke CIMC CLI

• View a command that has been invoked through CIMC CLI in CIMC GUI

• Generate CIMC CLI output from CIMC GUI

Tasks You Can Perform in CIMC

You can use CIMC to perform the following server management tasks:

• Power on, power off, power cycle, reset and shut down the server

• Toggle the locator LED

• Configure the server boot order

• View server properties and sensors

• Manage remote presence

• Create and manage local user accounts, and enable remote user authentication through Active Directory

• Configure network-related settings, including NIC properties, IPv4, VLANs, and network security

• Configure communication services, including HTTP, SSH, and IPMI Over LAN

• Manage certificates

• Configure platform event filters

• Update CIMC firmware

• Monitor faults, alarms, and server status

No Operating System or Application Provisioning or Management

CIMC provisions servers, and as a result, exists below the operating system on a server. Therefore, you cannot use it to provision or manage operating systems or applications on servers. For example, you cannot do the following:

• Deploy an OS, such as Windows or Linux

• Deploy patches for software, such as an OS or an application

• Install base software components, such as anti-virus software, monitoring agents, or backup clients

• Install software applications, such as databases, application server software, or web servers

• Perform operator actions, including restarting an Oracle database, restarting printer queues, or handling non-CIMC user accounts

• Configure or manage external storage on the SAN or NAS storage

CIMC CLI

The CIMC CLI is a command-line management interface for Cisco UCS C-Series servers. You can launch the CIMC CLI and manage the server by the serial port or over the network by SSH or Telnet. By default, Telnet access is disabled.

A user of the CLI will be one of three roles: admin, user (can control, cannot configure), and read-only.

Note	To recover from a lost admin password, see the Cisco UCS C-Series server installation and service guide for your platform.

• Command Modes
• Online Help for the CLI
• Command Mode Table
• Complete a Command
• Command History
• Committing, Discarding, and Viewing Pending Commands
• Command Output Formats

Command Modes

The CLI is organized into a hierarchy of command modes, with the EXEC mode being the highest-level mode of the hierarchy. Higher-level modes branch into lower-level modes. You use the scope command to move from higher-level modes to modes in the next lower level , and the exit command to move up one level in the mode hierarchy. The top command returns to the EXEC mode.

Note	Most command modes are associated with managed objects. The scope command does not create managed objects and can only access modes for which managed objects already exist.

Each mode contains a set of commands that can be entered in that mode. Most of the commands available in each mode pertain to the associated managed object. Depending on your assigned role, you may have access to only a subset of the commands available in a mode; commands to which you do not have access are hidden.

The CLI prompt for each mode shows the full path down the mode hierarchy to the current mode. This helps you to determine where you are in the command mode hierarchy and can be an invaluable tool when you need to navigate through the hierarchy.

• Command Mode Table
• Complete a Command
• Command History
• Committing, Discarding, and Viewing Pending Commands
• Command Output Formats

Command Mode Table

The following table lists the main command modes, the commands used to access each mode, and the CLI prompt associated with each mode.

Table 1 Main Command Modes and Prompts

Mode Name				Commands Used to Access	Mode Prompt
EXEC				top command from any mode	#
	bios			scope bios command from EXEC mode	/bios #
	certificate			scope certificate command from EXEC mode	/certificate #
	chassis			scope chassis command from EXEC mode	/chassis #
	cimc			scope cimc command from EXEC mode	/cimc #
		firmware		scope firmware command from cimc mode	/cimc/firmware #
		log		scope log command from cimc mode	/cimc/ log #
		network		scope network command from cimc mode	/cimc/network #
			ip-blocking	scope ip-blocking command from network mode	/cimc/network/ip-blocking #
		tech-support		scope tech-support command from cimc mode	/cimc/tech-support #
	fault			scope fault command from EXEC mode	/fault #
		pef		scope pef command from fault mode	/fault/pef #
		trap-destination		scope trap-destination command from fault mode	/fault/trap-destination #
	http			scope http command from EXEC mode	/http #
	ipmi			scope ipmi command from EXEC mode	/ipmi #
	kvm			scope kvm command from EXEC mode	/kvm #
	ldap			scope ldap command from EXEC mode	/ldap #
	sel			scope sel command from EXEC mode	/sel #
	sensor			scope sensor command from EXEC mode	/sensor #
	sol			scope sol command from EXEC mode	/sol #
	ssh			scope ssh command from EXEC mode	/ssh #
	user			scope user user-number command from EXEC mode	/user #
	user-session			scope user-session session-number command from EXEC mode	/user-session #
	vmedia			scope vmedia command from EXEC mode	/vmedia #

Complete a Command

You can use the Tab key in any mode to complete a command. Partially typing a command name and pressing Tab causes the command to be displayed in full, or to the point where another keyword must be chosen or an argument value must be entered.

Command History

The CLI stores all previously used commands in the current session. You can step through the previously used commands by using the Up Arrow or Down Arrow keys. The Up Arrow key steps to the previous command in the history, and the Down Arrow key steps to the next command in the history. If you get to the end of the history, pressing the Down Arrow key does nothing.

All commands in the history can be entered again by simply stepping through the history to recall the desired command and pressing Enter. The command is entered as if you had manually typed it. You can also recall a command and change it before you enter it.

Committing, Discarding, and Viewing Pending Commands

When you enter a configuration command in the CLI, the command is not applied until you enter the commit command. Until committed, a configuration command is pending and can be discarded by entering a discard command. When any command is pending, an asterisk (*) appears before the command prompt. The asterisk disappears when you enter the commit command, as shown in this example:

Server# scope chassis
Server /chassis # set locator-led off
Server /chassis *# commit
Server /chassis #

You can accumulate pending changes in multiple command modes and apply them together with a single commit command. You can view the pending commands by entering the show configuration pending command in any command mode.

Note	Committing multiple commands together is not an atomic operation. If any command fails, the successful commands are applied despite the failure. Failed commands are reported in an error message.

Command Output Formats

Most CLI show commands accept an optional detail keyword that causes the output information to be displayed as a list rather than a table. You can configure either of two presentation formats for displaying the output information when the detail keyword is used. The format choices are as follows:

• Default—For easy viewing, the command output is presented in a compact list.

  This example shows command output in the default format:

  Server /chassis # set cli output default
  Server /chassis # show hdd detail
  Name HDD_01_STATUS:
      Status : present
  Name HDD_02_STATUS:
      Status : present
  Name HDD_03_STATUS:
      Status : present
  Name HDD_04_STATUS:
      Status : present
  
  Server /chassis # 
  

• YAML—For easy parsing by scripts, the command output is presented in the YAML™ (YAML Ain't Markup Language) data serialization language, delimited by defined character strings.

  This example shows command output in the YAML format:

  Server /chassis # set cli output yaml
  Server /chassis # show hdd detail
  ---
      name: HDD_01_STATUS
      hdd-status: present
  
  ---
      name: HDD_02_STATUS
      hdd-status: present
  
  ---
      name: HDD_03_STATUS
      hdd-status: present
  
  ---
      name: HDD_04_STATUS
      hdd-status: present
  
  ...
  
  Server /chassis # 
  

  For detailed information about YAML, see http://www.yaml.org/about.html.

In most CLI command modes, you can enter set cli output default to configure the default format, or set cli output yaml to configure the YAML format.

Online Help for the CLI

At any time, you can type the ? character to display the options available at the current state of the command syntax. If you have not typed anything at the prompt, typing ? lists all available commands for the mode you are in. If you have partially typed a command, typing ? lists all available keywords and arguments available at your current position in the command syntax.