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A pod is a logical grouping of physical and virtual components, including one or more physical or virtual accounts, such as an HP OA account for computing. Typically, a pod represents a single converged infrastructure stack, such as a Vblock or VSPEX.
Add one or more accounts to the pod.
Cisco UCS Director performs auto-discovery of the HP OA account and manages all infrastructure elements in the server that are associated with the HP OA account. For managing servers, you must have two HP OAs in an enclosure: one HP OA in the Active state and the other HP OA in the Standby state.
Note | When you add a standby HP OA account, Cisco UCS Director will not discover all infrastructure elements in the server that are associated with that account, including blade server information, slots, processors, and memory. |
Add the pod to which this HP OA account belongs.
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 2 | Click the Physical Accounts tab. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Add. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the
Add
Account dialog box, complete the following fields:
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Step 5 | Click Add. |
Cisco UCS Director tests the connection to the HP server. If that test is successful, it adds the HP OA account and discovers all infrastructure elements in the server that are associated with that account, including blade server information, slots, processors, and memory. This discovery process and inventory collection takes few minutes to complete.
The polling interval configured on the System Tasks tab on the window specifies the frequency of inventory collection. For more information about configuring the polling interval, see the Cisco UCS Director Network Devices Management Guide.
You can test the connection at any time after you add an account to a pod.
If the connection fails, verify the configuration of the account, including the username and password. If those items are correct, determine if a network connectivity problem exists. Also, you can check the log files to identify the root cause of the connection failure.