Configuring Network Details

This chapter contains the following sections:

Configuring a Network Interface

You can configure a network interface for the Cisco UCS Director appliance by choosing Configure a Network Interface.

    Step 1   From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose Configure a Network Interface and press Enter.
    The following information displays:
          
    Do you want to Configure DHCP/STATIC IP  [D/S] ? : S
    
    
    Step 2   Choose one of the following configuration selections:
    • Choose D to configure a DHCP IP address.
    • Choose S to configure a static IP address.
    Step 3   Enter s to configure a static IP address and press Enter. The following information is displayed.
    Configuring STATIC configuration..
    Enter the ethernet interface that you want configure E.g. eth0 or eth1:
    Step 4   Enter the Ethernet interface to configure (for example, eth1) and press Enter. The following information displays:
    Configuring STATIC IP for eth1...
       IP Address: 209.165.200.224
       Netmask: 255.255.255.0 
       Gateway: 209.187.108.1
       DNS Server1: 198.51.100.1
       DNS Server2: 203.0.113.1
    Configuring Network with : INTERACE(eth1), IP(209.165.200.224), Netmask(255.255.255.0), Gateway(209.187.108.1),
    DNS Server1(198.51.100.1), DNS Serverx 2(203.0.113.1)
    
    Do you want to continue  [y/n]? : 
    Step 5   Enter n to discontinue the configuration process. Press Enter to return to complete the process.

    Displaying Appliance Network Details

    You can display the Cisco UCS Director appliance network details by choosing the Display Network Details option.

      Step 1   From the Cisco UCS Director Shell menu, choose the Display Network Details option and press Enter.
      The following information is displayed:
      Network details....
      eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:97:1E:2D
                inet addr:192.0.2.23  Bcast:192.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
                inet6 addr: fe80::230:56gg:fe97:1e2d/64 Scope:Link
                UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                RX packets:189818223 errors:14832 dropped:17343 overruns:0 frame:0
                TX packets:71520969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
                RX bytes:105749301003 (98.4 GiB)  TX bytes:27590555706 (25.6 GiB)
                Interrupt:59 Base address:0x2000
      
      lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
                inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
                inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
                UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
                RX packets:1821636581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                TX packets:1821636581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
                RX bytes:327846827946 (305.3 GiB)  TX bytes:327846827946 (305.3 GiB)
      
      Press return to continue ...
      
      Step 2   Press Enter to complete the process.