Monitoring and Reporting

This chapter contains the following sections:

About Monitoring and Reporting

Cisco UCS Director displays all managed Cisco UCS components in each Cisco UCS domain registered with a Cisco UCS Central account. These components can be hardware or software.

Information You Can View

You can view and monitor details about each component, including the following:

  • License status

  • Summary of the status

Components You Can Monitor

You can monitor each registered Cisco UCS domain and the Cisco UCS Manager inventory for that Cisco UCS domain, including the following:

  • Fabric interconnects

  • Chassis

  • Servers

  • FEXes

Viewing the Hardware Inventory for a Cisco UCS Domain

You can view all hardware in a Cisco UCS domain, including the model, serial number, status, and availability.

    Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Physical > Compute.
    Step 2   In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers.
    Step 3   In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account.
    Step 4   In the right pane, click the All UCS Domains tab.
    Step 5   Click the row for the Cisco UCS domain for which you want to view the hardware inventory.
    Step 6   Click View Details.

    Cisco UCS Director displays a set of tabs with information about the fabric interconnects, chassis, servers, and FEXes in the Cisco UCS domain.

    Viewing the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Inventory Report

    This report shows you the number of Cisco UCS fabric interconnects in a Cisco UCS Central account and how many of them are operable.

      Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Physical > Compute.
      Step 2   In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers.
      Step 3   In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account.
      Step 4   In the right pane, click the UCS Fabric Interconnect Inventory tab.

      Click the drop-down menu button at the right side of the tab menu to view this tab.

      Viewing the Cisco UCS Chassis Inventory Report

      This report shows you the number of Cisco UCS chassis in a Cisco UCS Central account and how many of them are powered on.

        Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Physical > Compute.
        Step 2   In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers.
        Step 3   In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account.
        Step 4   In the right pane, click the UCS Chassis Inventory tab.

        Click the drop-down menu button at the right side of the tab menu to view this tab.

        Viewing the Cisco UCS Servers Inventory Report

        This report shows you the number of Cisco UCS servers in a Cisco UCS Central account and how many of those servers are operable.

          Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Physical > Compute.
          Step 2   In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers.
          Step 3   In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account.
          Step 4   In the right pane, click the UCS Server Inventory tab.

          Click the drop-down menu button at the right side of the tab menu to view this tab.

          Viewing the Cisco UCS Server Association Report

          This report shows you the number of associated, unassociated, and other Cisco UCS servers in a Cisco UCS Central account.

            Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Physical > Compute.
            Step 2   In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers.
            Step 3   In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account.
            Step 4   In the right pane, click the UCS Servers Associated vs Unassociated tab.

            Click the drop-down menu button at the right side of the tab menu to view this tab.

            BM Testing with the UCS Central Tasks

            This report covers the ID usage utilization inventory and the tabular representation related to each domain associated to a Cisco UCS Central

              Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Physical > Compute.
              Step 2   In the left pane, expand Multi-Domain Managers.
              Step 3   In the left pane, expand UCS Central Accounts and then click the Cisco UCS Central account.
              Step 4   In the right pane, click the All UCS Domains tab.
              Step 5   In the right pane, double-click a UCS domain.
              Step 6   In the right pane, click the IDUsage tab. For each UCS Domain associated to a Cisco UCS Central account, the ID usage related to fc, mac, uuid, and iqn pools is collected as part of a central inventory collection task.
              Step 7   To drill down the report, double-click a domain name (DN). Total ID Usage/Available ID Usage/Assigned ID Usage/Conflict ID Usage are available on separate tabs.