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Cisco UCS Manager GUI is the Java application that provides a GUI interface to Cisco UCS Manager. You can start and access Cisco UCS Manager GUI from any computer that meets the requirements listed in the System Requirements section of the Cisco UCS Software Release Notes.
Each time you start Cisco UCS Manager GUI, Cisco UCS Manager uses Java Web Start technology to cache the current version of the application on your computer. As a result, you do not have to download the application every time you log in. You only have to download the application the first time that you log in from a computer after the Cisco UCS Manager software has been updated on a system.
Tip | The title bar displays the name of the Cisco UCS domain to which you are connected. |
The Fault Summary area displays in the upper left of Cisco UCS Manager GUI. This area displays a summary of all faults that have occurred in the Cisco UCS domain.
Each type of fault is represented by a different icon. The number below each icon indicates how many faults of that type have occurred in the system. If you click an icon, Cisco UCS Manager GUI opens the Faults tab in the Work area and displays the details of all faults of that type.
The following table describes the types of faults each icon in the Fault Summary area represents:
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Critical Alarms |
Critical problems exist with one or more components. These issues should be researched and fixed immediately. |
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Major Alarms |
Serious problems exist with one or more components. These issues should be researched and fixed immediately. |
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Minor Alarms |
Problems exist with one or more components that might adversely affect the system performance. These issues should be researched and fixed as soon as possible before they become major or critical issues. |
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Warning Alarms |
Potential problems exist with one or more components that might adversely affect the system performance if they are allowed to continue. These issues should be researched and fixed as soon as possible before the problem grows worse. |
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Suppression Status field |
The state of fault suppression tasks on the component. Click Suppression Task Properties in the Actions area to view all fault suppression tasks.
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Tip | If you only want to see faults for a specific object, navigate to that object and then review the Faults tab for that object. |
The Navigation pane displays on the left side of Cisco UCS Manager GUI below the Fault Summary area. This pane provides centralized navigation to all equipment and other components in the Cisco UCS domain. When you select a component in the Navigation pane, the object displays in the Work area.
The Navigation pane has five tabs. Each tab includes the following elements:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
The toolbar displays on the right side of Cisco UCS Manager GUI above the Work pane. You can use the menu buttons in the toolbar to perform common actions, including the following actions:
The Work pane displays on the right side of Cisco UCS Manager GUI. This pane displays details about the component selected in the Navigation pane.
The Work pane includes the following elements:
The status bar displays across the bottom of Cisco UCS Manager GUI. The status bar provides information about the state of the application.
On the left, the status bar displays the following information about your current session in Cisco UCS Manager GUI:
On the right, the status bar displays the system time.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI enables you to customize the tables on each tab. You can change the type of content that you view and filter the content.
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:
Menu Item | Description |
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Column Name |
The menu contains an entry for each column in the table. Click a column name to display or hide the column. |
Horizontal Scroll |
If selected, adds a horizontal scroll bar to the table. If not selected, when you widen one of the columns, all columns to the right narrow and do not scroll. |
Pack All Columns |
Resizes all columns to their default width. |
Pack Selected Column |
Resizes only the selected column to its default width. |
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:
The LAN Uplinks Manager provides a single interface where you can configure the connections between Cisco UCS and the LAN. You can use the LAN Uplinks Manager to create and configure the following:
Some of the configuration that you can do in the LAN Uplinks Manager can also be done in nodes on other tabs, such as the Equipment tab or the LAN tab.
The Internal Fabric Manager provides a single interface where you can configure server ports for a fabric interconnect in a Cisco UCS domain. The Internal Fabric Manager is accessible from the General tab for that fabric interconnect.
Some of the configuration that you can do in the Internal Fabric Manager can also be done in nodes on the Equipment tab, on the LAN tab, or in the LAN Uplinks Manager.
For each chassis in a Cisco UCS domain, Cisco UCS Manager GUI provides a hybrid display that includes both physical components and connections between the chassis and the fabric interconnects.
This tab displays detailed information about the connections between the selected chassis or rack server and the fabric interconnects. It has an icon for the following:
The lines between the icons represent the connections between the following:
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.
The default HTTP web link for the Cisco UCS Manager GUI is http://UCSManager_IPv4, or http://UCSManager_IPv6, where UCSManager_IPv4 or UCSManager_IPv6 represents the IPv4 or IPv6 address, respectively, assigned to Cisco UCS Manager. This IP address can be one of the following:
Note | Some browsers do not support HTTPS access using an IPv6 address. |
The default HTTP web link for the Cisco UCS Manager GUI is http://UCSManager_IPv4, or http://UCSManager_IPv6, where UCSManager_IPv4 or UCSManager_IPv6 represents the IPv4 or IPv6 address, respectively, assigned to Cisco UCS Manager. This IP address can be one of the following:
Web session limits are used by Cisco UCS Manager to restrict the number of web sessions (both GUI and XML) permitted access to the system at any one time.
By default, the number of concurrent web sessions allowed by Cisco UCS Manager is set to the maximum value: 256.
With a pre-login banner, when a user logs into Cisco UCS Manager GUI, Cisco UCS Manager displays the banner text in the Create Pre-Login Banner dialog box and waits until the user dismisses that dialog box before it prompts for the username and password. When a user logs into Cisco UCS Manager CLI, Cisco UCS Manager displays the banner text in a dialog box and waits for the user to dismiss that dialog box before it prompts for the password. It then repeats the banner text above the copyright block that it displays to the user.
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.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI Properties
These properties determine how Cisco UCS Manager GUI reacts to session interruptions and inactivity, and configures the Cisco UCS Manager GUI Java message logging.
These properties determine whether or not Cisco UCS Manager GUI displays a confirmation message after configuration changes and other operations.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI uses these properties to connect with external applications, such as SSH.
These properties allow you to customize the some of the visual properties of Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
Some properties have a restricted range of values that you can enter. You can use this procedure to determine that acceptable range for fields in a dialog box, window, or tab. You cannot use this procedure to determine the acceptable range of values for properties listed in a table or tree.
You can use this procedure to determine which service profiles and service profile templates are associated with the selected policy.
You can use this procedure to determine which service profiles and service profile templates are associated with the selected pool.
The method you use to delete a pool, policy, or other object, such as a VLAN, is the same for all objects.
Note | Before you delete an object, ensure that it is not being used or referenced by another object in the system. For example, before you delete a network policy, ensure that a service profile does not reference that policy. |
To assist you in developing scripts or creating applications with the XML API for Cisco UCS, Cisco UCS Manager GUI includes an option to copy the XML used to create an object in Cisco UCS Manager. This option is available on the right-click menu for most object nodes in the Navigation pane, such as the Port Profiles node or the node for a specific service profile.