- General Administration
- Examining the Version Information
- Changing Your Password
- Synchronizing the System Time
- Applying a Patch to Cisco UCS Director
- Applying a Signed Patch to Cisco UCS Director
- Shutting Down the Appliance
- Rebooting an Appliance
- Using a Multi-Node Setup
- Terminating Active GUI Sessions
Using Shell
Commands
This chapter contains the following sections:
- General Administration
- Examining the Version Information
- Changing Your Password
- Synchronizing the System Time
- Applying a Patch to Cisco UCS Director
- Applying a Signed Patch to Cisco UCS Director
- Shutting Down the Appliance
- Rebooting an Appliance
- Using a Multi-Node Setup
- Terminating Active GUI Sessions
General Administration
This section describes how to execute common administration tasks such as changing your password, stopping and starting services, generating log and report data, as well as other common system administration tasks.
Examining the Version Information
Changing Your Password
You can change your Cisco UCS Director shell password by choosing Change ShellAdmin password.
Synchronizing the System Time
You can synchronize the system time to the hardware time and the NTP server by choosing Time Sync.
Applying a Patch to Cisco UCS Director
Choose this option to apply a patch to the appliance.
What to Do Next
After the patch is applied, start the services on the appliance using the Start Services option.
Applying a Signed Patch to Cisco UCS Director
Step 1 | From the
Cisco UCS Director
Shell menu, choose
Apply Signed Patch and press Enter.
Applying Patch... Services will be stopped before upgrade. Do you want to continue? [y/N]: | ||
Step 2 | Enter
y and press
Enter.
Stopping services... Do you want to take database backup before applying patch? [Y/n]: | ||
Step 3 | If you entered
Y and press
Enter the backup process starts. Enter the
transfer mode and press
Enter.
The backup process creates a <filename>.tar.gz file on the system running Cisco UCS Director. You can copy this file to another server using the FTP/SFTP/SCP mode. Specify the transfer mode and login credentials Specify the transfer mode [FTP/SFTP/SCP]:
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Step 4 | If you entered
n, enter the desired patch file download
protocol and press
Enter and provide the required information, as
follows:
n User selected option not to take backup, proceeding with applying patch. Enter patch file download protocol [SFTP/SCP/FTP/HTTP/FILE]: SCP Server IP Address: 172.29.109.134 Server Username: root Server Password: Full Patch to Patch Zip File: /opt/mytest123/cucsd_patch_6_5_0_0_65341_signed.zip Apply the patch '/opt/mytest123/cucsd_patch_6_5_0_0_65341_signed.zip? [y/N]: | ||
Step 5 | If you are prompted to confirm that you want to apply the patch,
enter
y, then press
Enter.
y Checking if database is running ...yes Downloading the patch... Successfully Connected to 172.29.109.134 Completed downloading the patch. Verifying patch signature... Successfully verified the signature of patch file /opt/mytest123/cucsd_patch_6_5_0_0_65341_signed.zip Proceeding with patch installation
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Shutting Down the Appliance
Step 1 | From the
Cisco UCS Director
Shell menu, choose the
Shutdown
Appliance option and press the
Enter key.
Do you want to Shutdown appliance [y/n] ?: |
Step 2 | Enter
y to shut down the appliance. The following
information is displayed:
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Thu Sep 15 13:34:33 2013) The system is shutting down NOW! |
Step 3 | Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |
Rebooting an Appliance
Step 1 | From the
Cisco UCS Director
Shell menu, choose the
Reboot
Appliance option and press the
Enter key.
Do you want to Reboot appliance [y/n] ?: |
Step 2 | Enter
y to reboot the appliance. The following information
is displayed:
Rebooting the Cisco UCS Director Appliance... Broadcast message from root (pts/5) (Wed Sep 18 13:12:06 2013): The system is going down for reboot NOW! Rebooting sucessful Press return to continue... |
Step 3 | Press the Enter key to return to the main menu. |
Using a Multi-Node Setup
![]() Note | For a multi-node setup, you have to install the license on the primary node only. |
A multi-node setup improves scalability by offloading the processing of system tasks, such as inventory data collection, form the primary node to one or more service nodes. You can assign certain systems tasks to one or more service nodes. The number of nodes determines how the processing of system tasks is scaled.
Node pools group service nodes and enable you to assign system tasks to more than one service node. If one service node is busy when a system task needs to be run, Cisco UCS Director uses a round-robin assignment to determine which service node should process the system task. If all, service nodes are busy, you can have the primary node run the system task.
For more information about how to configure the primary node and service nodes, and how to assign system tasks, see the Cisco UCS Director Multi-Node Installation and Configuration Guide
Terminating Active GUI Sessions
Step 1 | From the
Cisco UCS Director
Shell menu, choose
Terminate active GUI session(s) for user and
press Enter.
On a subsequent login, all active session(s) for the user will be terminated. This utility is for terminating the GUI sessions after the specified maximum concurrent sessions for a user is reached. Do you want to proceed [y/n]? : |
Step 2 | Enter
y and press
Enter.
Specify the user name of the user session(s) that needs to be terminated : |
Step 3 | Enter the user name and press
Enter.
Specify the user session(s) that need to be terminated [a) Oldest, b) All] a/b : |
Step 4 | Enter a or b based on the requirement and press Enter. On Subsequent login, the user GUI session(s) will be terminated, and you are allowed to log in. |