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.
Reports
Cisco UCS Director provides several different kinds of reports that you can use to view the status of a Cisco UCS Central pod and its components. All of these reports can be manually refreshed for real-time data and exported to PDF, CSV, or XLS format for you to share with others.
The available reports include:
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Summary reports for comparison data and other information about the components of the pod. These reports display in bar, pie, and tabular charts to provide insight into how the system is performing, such as UCS Fabric Interconnect Inventory, UCS Chassis Inventory, UCS Server Inventory, and Associated vs Unassociated Servers.
You can add some or all of these reports to your Cisco UCS Director dashboard for quick access.
To view these reports, go to Viewing the Hardware Inventory for a Cisco UCS Domain
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Tabular reports for detailed information about specific components. They provide the status of the components in a pod. You can export the data from any tabular report in PDF, CSV, or XLS format. If you have scheduled inventory collection, the status is updated regularly. Otherwise, you can click Refresh on the tabular report to get real-time status.
You can access tabular reports from any page after you choose the pod. Reports are available for the following components:
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Compute reports
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Storage reports
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Network reports
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More reports include Top 5 reports and other reports for detailed information about high-performing resources. You can select the report type to display as tabular, trending, or instant. You can customize some of these reports by choosing the report widget and time duration.
Inventory Collection
When you add a pod, Cisco UCS Director discovers and collects the inventory of that pod. You can view the collected inventory and the status of the pod and its components in the summary reports and on the report pages. This status can be updated on a regular schedule through system tasks and manually by component.
Components You Can Monitor
You can monitor each registered Cisco UCS domain and the Cisco UCS Manager components for that Cisco UCS domain, including the following:
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UCS Domains
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Organizations
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Global Service Profiles
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Local Service Profiles
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VSANS
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VLANs
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Discovered Servers
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Pending Activities
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ID Range Qualification Policy
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FEX, Server, and Chassis