Post-Installation Configuration

Changing the Admin Password

You are prompted to change the default admin user password after you log into Cisco UCS Director for the first time. On Subsequent login, you can follow these steps to change the admin user password.

    Step 1   Choose Administration > Users and Groups.
    Step 2   On the Users and Groups page, click Users.
    Step 3   Click the row with the administration user for which you want to change the default password.
    Step 4   From the More Actions drop-down list, choose Change Password.
    Step 5   On the Change Password screen, enter the old password and then the new password and confirm it.
    Step 6   Click Save.

    Updating the License

    Before You Begin

    If you received a zipped license file by an email, extract and save the license (.lic) file to your local machine.

      Step 1   Choose Administration > License.
      Step 2   On the License page, click License Keys.
      Step 3   Click Update License.
      Step 4   On the Update License screen, do the following:
      1. Drop the .lic file from your local system or click Select a File and navigate to the location where you stored the .lic file.

        To enter license text instead of file upload, check the Enter License Text checkbox and enter the license text in the License Text field.

      2. Click Submit.

        The license file is processed, and a message appears confirming the successful update.

      Configuring the Network Interface in ShellAdmin

      This procedure is optional.

        Step 1   Log in to the Cisco UCS Director VM console with the shelladmin user credentials:

        If this is the first time you have logged into the ShellAdmin after deployment, you will be prompted to change the default password.

        Step 2   Choose Configure Network Interface.
        Step 3   At the Do you want to Configure DHCP/STATIC IP [D/S] prompt, enter one of the following choices:
        • If DHCP is enabled, enter D (IP addresses are assigned automatically)
        • To configure static IP, enter S, and then choose the interface you want to configure at the next prompt followed by the option to select IPv4 or IPv6. This is followed by the confirmation of the interface selected and the version of IP for which you select Y to continue. Then enter the following details:

          • IP address

          • Netmask

          • Gateway

          • DNS Server 1

          • DNS Server 2

        Step 4   Confirm when prompted.

        Changing the Maximum Packet Size

        The default maximum packet (query) size for the Cisco UCS Director database queries is 4 MB. If one or more of your pods requires a larger size, we recommend that you increase the configuration of the maximum packet size to 100 MB. For example, the import of large open automation modules typically require a larger packet size.


        Note

        For a multi-node setup, perform this configuration on the inventory database and monitoring database nodes.

          Step 1   In the shelladmin, choose Login as Root to log in to Cisco UCS Director.
          Step 2   Navigate to the /etc folder.
          Step 3   Open the my.cnf file and locate the max_allowed_packet parameter.
          Step 4   Change the value of the max_allowed_packet parameter to max_allowed_packet=100M
          Step 5   Save the my.cnf file.
          Step 6   In the shelladmin, stop and restart the Cisco UCS Director services on every node, as follows:
          1. Choose Stop services.
          2. To verify that all services are stopped, choose Display services status.
          3. After all services have stopped on the node, choose Start services.