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To discover rack servers in Cisco UCS Director, you can specify configuration criteria and save it as a rack server discovery profile. Using this profile, you can discover multiple rack servers simultaneously and import them into Cisco UCS Director.
With a discovery profile, you can choose to discover rack servers with one of the following options:
IP address range—Discovers all rack servers with IP addresses within the specified range.
Subnet range—Discovers all rack servers within the specified subnet range.
IP Address CSV file—Discovers rack servers with IP addresses that match those specified in the uploaded CSV file.
Specific IP addresses—Discovers rack servers with IP addresses that match the IP addresses you specify.
Perform this procedure when you want to discover and import rack servers.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | Configure a rack server discovery profile. | |
Step 2 | Discover servers using the profile. |
Refer Performing Auto Discovery. |
Step 3 | Import the servers. | |
Step 4 | Delete a discovery profile. | (Optional) |
Step 5 | Clear a server from the auto discovered list. | (Optional)
Refer Clearing Auto Discovery List. |
You can configure a rack discovery profile using which Cisco UCS Director can automatically discover rack mount servers. Perform this procedure when you want to add a rack discovery profile.
Click Discover to select a profile, and discover devices that match the profile.
Perform this procedure when you want to perform auto discovery.
You should configure a profile based on which Cisco UCS Director can discover the rack servers.
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | Click the Rack Server Discovery tab. |
Step 3 | Click Discover. |
Step 4 | In the Discover Devices dialog box, select a profile from the Select Profile drop-down list. |
Step 5 | (Optional)You can choose
to schedule this task to run at a later point in time by checking the
Schedule
Later check box.
If you check this check box, then you can either select a schedule that you previously created or create a new schedule. For information on creating a new schedule, see Creating Schedules. |
Step 6 | Click Submit. |
Step 7 | In the confirmation dialog box, click OK. |
Perform this procedure when you want to import one or more rack servers that were discovered using the discovery profile.
You cannot perform multiple account-related tasks, such as adding, modifying or importing accounts, simultaneously in Cisco UCS Director. We recommend that you wait for one task to complete, before initiating another task. For example, while importing discovered devices into a rack group, we recommend that you let you this task complete before you edit any other rack groups or rack accounts.
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Administration > Physical Accounts. | ||||||||||||||
Step 2 | Click the Rack Server Discovery tab. | ||||||||||||||
Step 3 | Click Import. | ||||||||||||||
Step 4 | In the
Import
Discovered Devices dialog box, complete the following:
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Step 5 | Click Submit. | ||||||||||||||
Step 6 | In the confirmation dialog box, click OK. |
Perform this procedure when you want to delete a server or all the servers from the auto discovered list.
Step 1 | From the menu bar, choose Administration > Physical Accounts. | ||
Step 2 | Click the Rack Server Discovery tab. | ||
Step 3 | Click Clear. | ||
Step 4 | In the Clear Devices dialog box, click Select. | ||
Step 5 | In the
Select dialog box, check the check boxes of the
servers you want to delete.
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Step 6 | Click Select. | ||
Step 7 | In the Clear Devices dialog box, click Submit. | ||
Step 8 | In the confirmation dialog box, click OK. |
Perform this procedure when you want to delete an automatic discovery profile.
You should configure a profile based on which Cisco UCS Director can discover the devices.