Equipment Tab

This tab contains a basic inventory of the equipment in the Cisco UCS domain. A system or server administrator can use this tab to access and manage the chassis, fabric interconnects, servers, and other hardware. A red, orange, or yellow rectangle around a device name indicate that the device has a fault.

The major nodes in this tab are the following:

• Equipment—An overview of the entire Cisco UCS domain, including active and decommissioned hardware, firmware management, equipment-related policies, power groups, and an aggregated list of faults.

• Chassis—The fans, I/O modules, power supply units (PSUs), and Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers for each chassis in the Cisco UCS domain.

• Rack-Mounts—The FEXes and Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers integrated with the Cisco UCS domain.

• Fabric Interconnects—The fixed and expansion modules, fans, and PSUs associated with the fabric interconnects in the Cisco UCS domain.

Servers Tab

This tab contains the server-related components, such as service profiles, polices, and pools. A server administrator typically accesses and manages the components on this tab.

The major nodes below the Servers node in this tab are the following:

• Servers—Service profiles and the relationship between the defined organizations and the service profiles.

• Service Profiles—The service profiles defined in the system divided by organization.

• Service Profile Templates—The service profile templates defined in the system divided by organization.

• Policies—Server-related policies for adapters, BIOS, firmware, IPMI access, local disk configuration, maintenance, power, disk scrubbing, Serial over LAN, server pools, iSCSI authentication, vNIC/vHBA placement, and fault thresholds.

• Pools—Server pools and UUID suffix pools.

• Schedules—Maintenance and fault suppression schedules.

LAN Tab

This tab contains the components related to LAN configuration, such as LAN pin groups, quality of service classes, VLANs, policies, pools, and the internal domain. A network administrator typically accesses and manages the components on this tab.

The major nodes below the LAN node in this tab are the following:

• LAN Cloud—Quality of service settings, port channels, pin groups, VLANs, VLAN optimization sets, threshold policies.

• Appliances—Interfaces, port channels, and VLANs.

• Internal LAN—Ports and threshold polices associated with the internal fabric.

• Policies—Policies governing flow control, adapters, vNICs, vNIC templates, quality of services, and fault thresholds.

• Pools—The IP pools and MAC pools defined in the system.

• Traffic Monitoring Sessions—The port traffic monitoring sessions defined in the system.

SAN Tab

This tab contains the components related to SAN configuration, such as pin groups, VSANs, policies, and pools. A storage administrator typically accesses and manages the components on this tab.

The major nodes in this tab are the following:

• SAN—SAN uplinks, fibre channel address assignment, SAN-related pools, and VSANs.

• SAN Cloud—SAN uplinks, fibre channel address assignment, SAN-related pools, and VSANs.

• Storage Cloud—Storage ports and VSANs.

• Policies—Fibre Channel adapter policies, default vHBA behavior, SAN connectivity policies, storage connection policies, vHBA templates, and fault thresholds.

• Pools—The iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) pools and World Wide Name pools defined in the system.

• Traffic Monitoring Sessions—The port traffic monitoring sessions defined in the system.

VM Tab

This tab contains the components required to configure VM-FEX for servers with a VIC adapter. For example, you use components on this tab to configure the connection between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vCenter, to configure distributed virtual switches, port profiles, and to view the virtual machines hosted on servers in the Cisco UCS domain.

The major nodes in this tab are the following:

• All–Port profiles, virtual machines, virtual switches, certificates, the lifecycle policy, VM-related events and FSM tasks.

• Clusters—Clusters, including the associated virtual machines and port profiles.

• Port Profiles—VMWare port profiles.

• VMware—vCenters, including folders, Datacenters, virtual machines, and virtual switches

Admin Tab

This tab contains system-wide settings, such as user manager and communication services, and troubleshooting components, such as faults and events. The system administrator typically accesses and manages the components on this tab.

The major nodes in this tab are the following:

• All—Management interfaces, backup and import configuration, tech support file creation, the full state backup policy, and the all configuration export policy.

• Faults, Events and Audit Log—System-wide faults, events, audit logs, syslog entries, core files, tech support files, and global fault policies.

• User Management—Authentication methods, remote access methods, local users, locales, and user roles.

• Key Management—SSH key and trusted point settings.

• Communication Management—Communication service settings for SSH, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, web session limits, Call Home settings, DNS management, and management interfaces, and Cisco UCS Central settings.

• Stats Management—Threshold statistics settings that control when faults are issued by the system.

• Time Zone Management—NTP server settings to establish time zone synchronization.

• Capability Catalog—The capability catalog, a set of tunable parameters, strings, and rules.

• Management Extension—Management extensions, which allow you add support for previously unsupported servers and other hardware to Cisco UCS Manager.

• License Management—The feature and port licenses installed on this system.

Table Customization Menu Button

This menu button in the upper right of every table enables you to control and customize your view of the table. The drop-down menu for this button includes the following options:

Table Content Filtering

The Filter button above each table enables you to filter the content in the table according to the criteria that you set in the Filter dialog box. The dialog box includes the following filtering options:

This tab displays detailed information about the connections between the selected chassis and the fabric interconnects. It has an icon for the following:

• Each fabric interconnect in the system

• The I/O module (IOM) in the selected component, which is shown as an independent unit to make the connection paths easier to see

• The selected chassis showing the servers and PSUs

The lines between the icons represent the connections between the following:

• DCE interface on each server and the associated server port on the IOM. These connections are created by Cisco and cannot be changed.

• Server port on the IOM and the associated port on the fabric interconnect. You can change these connections if desired.

You can mouse over the icons and lines to view tooltips identifying each component or connection, and you can double-click any component to view properties for that component.

If there is a fault associated with the component or any of its subcomponents, Cisco UCS Manager GUI displays a fault icon on top of the appropriate component. If there are multiple fault messages, Cisco UCS Manager GUI displays the icon associated with the most serious fault message in the system.

If the Pre-Login Banner area does not appear on the Banners tab, Cisco UCS Manager does not display a pre-login banner when users log in. If the Pre-Login Banner area does appear, you cannot create a second pre-login banner. You can only delete or modify the existing banner.