Cisco UCS Manager GUI
is the Java application that provides a GUI interface to
Cisco UCS Manager.
You can start and access
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
from any computer that meets the following requirements:
Has Java 1.6 or higher installed
Runs a supported operating system
Has HTTP or HTTPS access to the fabric interconnect
Each time you start
Cisco UCS Manager GUI,
Cisco UCS Manager
uses Java Web Start technology to cache the current version of the application
on your computer. As a result, you do not have to download the application
every time you log in. You only have to download the application the first time
that you log in from a computer after the
Cisco UCS Manager
software has been updated on a system.
Tip
The title bar displays the name of the
Cisco UCS
instance to which you are connected.
The
Fault Summary area displays in the upper left of
Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
This area displays a summary of all faults that have occurred in the
Cisco UCS
instance.
Each type of fault is represented by a different icon. The number below
each icon indicates how many faults of that type have occurred in the system.
If you click an icon,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
opens the
Faults tab in the
Work area and displays the details of all faults
of that type.
The following table describes the types of faults each icon in the
Fault Summary area represents:
Fault Type
Description
Critical Alarms
Critical problems exist with one or more components. These
issues should be researched and fixed immediately.
Major Alarms
Serious problems exist with one or more components. These
issues should be researched and fixed immediately.
Minor Alarms
Problems exist with one or more components that may
adversely affect system performance. These issues should be researched and
fixed as soon as possible before they become major or critical issues.
Warning Alarms
Potential problems exist with one or more components that
may adversely affect system performance if they are allowed to continue. These
issues should be researched and fixed as soon as possible before the problem
grows worse.
Tip
If you only want to see faults for a specific object, navigate to that
object and then review the
Faults tab for that object.
Navigation Pane
The
Navigation pane displays on the left side of
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
below the
Fault Summary area. This pane provides centralized
navigation to all equipment and other components in the
Cisco UCS
instance. When you select a component in the
Navigation pane, the object displays in the
Work area.
The
Navigation pane has five tabs. Each tab includes
the following elements:
A
Filter combo box that you can use to filter
the navigation tree to view all nodes or only one node.
An expandable navigation tree that you can use to access all
components on that tab. An icon next to an folder indicates that the node or
folder has subcomponents.
Equipment Tab
This tab contains a basic inventory of the equipment in the
Cisco UCS
instance. A system or server administrator can use this tab to access and
manage the chassis, fabric interconnects, servers, and other hardware. A red,
orange, or yellow rectangle around a device name indicate that the device has a
fault.
The major nodes below the Equipment node in this tab are the following:
Chassis
Fabric Interconnects
Servers Tab
This tab contains the server-related components, such as
service profiles, polices, and pools. A server administrator typically accesses
and manages the components on this tab.
The major nodes below the Servers node in this tab are the following:
Service Profiles
Service Profile Templates
Policies
Pools
LAN Tab
This tab contains the components related to LAN configuration,
such as LAN pin groups, quality of service classes, VLANs, policies, pools, and the
internal domain. A network administrator typically accesses and
manages the components on this tab.
The major nodes below the LAN node in this tab are the following:
LAN Cloud
Policies
Pools
Internal LAN Domains
SAN Tab
This tab contains the components related to SAN configuration,
such as pin groups, VSANs, policies, and pools. A storage administrator
typically accesses and manages the components on this tab.
The major nodes below the SAN node in this tab are the following:
SAN Cloud
Policies
Pools
VM Tab
This tab contains the components required to configure VN-Link in Hardware for servers with a VIC adapter. For example, you use components on this tab to configure the connection between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vCenter, to configure distributed virtual switches, port profiles, and to view the virtual machines hosted on servers in the Cisco UCS instance.
The major node below the All node in this tab is the VMware node.
Admin Tab
This tab contains system-wide settings, such as user manager
and communication services, and troubleshooting components, such as faults and
events. The system administrator typically accesses and manages the components
on this tab.
The major nodes below the All node in this tab are the following:
Faults, Events and Audit Log
User Management
Key Management
Communication Management
Stats Management
Timezone Management
Capability Catalog
Toolbar
The toolbar displays on the right side of Cisco UCS Manager GUI above the Work pane. You can use the menu buttons in the toolbar to perform common actions, including the following actions:
Navigate between previously viewed items in the Work pane
Create elements for the Cisco UCS instance
Set options for Cisco UCS Manager GUI
Access online help for Cisco UCS Manager GUI
Work Pane
The Work pane displays on the right side of Cisco UCS Manager GUI. This pane displays details about the component selected in the Navigation pane.
The Work pane includes the following elements:
A navigation bar that displays the path from the main node of the tab in the Navigation pane to the selected element. You can click any component in this path to display that component in the Work pane.
A content area that displays tabs with information related to the component selected in the Navigation pane. The tabs displayed in the content area depends upon the selected component. You can use these tabs to view information about the component, create components, modify properties of the component, and examine a selected
object.
Status Bar
The status bar displays across the bottom of Cisco UCS Manager GUI. The status bar provides information about the state of the application.
On the left, the status bar displays the following information about your current session in Cisco UCS Manager GUI:
A lock icon that indicates the protocol you used to log in. If the icon is locked, you connected with HTTPS and if the icon is unlocked, you connected with HTTP.
The username you used to log in.
The IP address of the server where you logged in.
On the right, the status bar displays the system time.
Table Customization
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
enables you to customize the tables on each tab. You can change the type of
content that you view and filter the content.
Table Customization Menu Button
This menu button in the upper right of every table enables you to
control and customize your view of the table. The drop-down menu for this
button includes the following options:
Menu Item
Description
Column Name
The menu contains an entry for each column in the table.
Click a column name to display or hide the column.
Horizontal Scroll
If selected, adds a horizontal scroll bar to the table. If not selected, when you widen one of the columns, all columns to the right narrow and do not scroll.
Pack All Columns
Resizes all columns to their default width.
Pack Selected Column
Resizes only the selected column to its default width.
Table Content Filtering
The
Filter button above each table enables you to
filter the content in the table according to the criteria that you set in the
Filter dialog box. The dialog box includes the
following filtering options:
Name
Description
Disable option
No filtering criteria is used on the content of the column. This is the default setting.
Equal option
Displays only that content in the column which exactly matches the value specified.
Not Equal option
Displays only that content in the column which does not exactly match the value specified.
Wildcard option
The criteria you enter can include one of the following wildcards:
_ (underscore) or ? (question mark)—replaces a single character
% (percent sign) or * (asterisk)—replaces any
sequence of characters
Less Than option
Displays only that content in the column which is less than the value specified.
Less Than Or Equal option
Displays only that content in the column which is less than or equal to the value specified.
Greater Than option
Displays only that content in the column which is greater than the value specified.
Greater Than Or Equal option
Displays only that content in the column which is greater than or equal to the value specified.
LAN Uplinks Manager
The LAN Uplinks Manager provides a single interface where you can configure the connections between Cisco UCS and the LAN. You can use the LAN Uplinks Manager to create and configure the following:
Ethernet switching mode
Uplink Ethernet ports
Port channels
LAN pin groups
Named VLANs
Server ports
QoS system classes
Some of the configuration that you can do in the LAN Uplinks Manager can also be done in nodes on other tabs, such as the Equipment tab or the LAN tab.
Internal Fabric Manager
The Internal Fabric Manager provides a single interface where you can configure server ports for a fabric interconnect in a Cisco UCS instance. The Internal Fabric Manager is accessible from the General tab for that fabric interconnect.
Some of the configuration that you can do in the Internal Fabric Manager can also be done in nodes on the Equipment tab, on the LAN tab, or in the LAN Uplinks Manager.
Hybrid Display
For each chassis in a
Cisco UCS
instance,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
provides a hybrid display that includes both physical components and
connections between the chassis and the fabric interconnects.
This tab displays detailed information about the connections between
the selected chassis and the fabric interconnects. It has an icon for the following:
Each fabric interconnect in the system
The I/O module (IOM) in the selected component, which is shown as an
independent unit to make the connection paths easier to see
The selected chassis showing the servers and PSUs
The lines between the icons represent the connections between the following:
DCE interface on each server and the associated server port on the
IOM. These connections are created by Cisco and cannot be changed.
Server port on the IOM and the associated port on the fabric
interconnect. You can change these connections if desired.
You can mouse over the icons and lines to view tooltips identifying
each component or connection, and you can double-click any component to view
properties for that component.
If there is a fault associated with the component or any of its
subcomponents,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
displays a fault icon on top of the appropriate component. If there are
multiple fault messages,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
displays the icon associated with the most serious fault message in the system.
Web Session Limits
Web session limits are used by Cisco UCS Manager to restrict the number of web sessions (both GUI and XML) permitted access to the system at any one time.
By default, the number of concurrent web sessions allowed by Cisco UCS Manager is set to the maximum value: 256.
Logging in to
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
through HTTPS
The default HTTPS web link for Cisco UCS Manager GUI is https://UCSManager_IP, where UCSManager_IP represents the IP address assigned to Cisco UCS Manager. This IP address can be one of the following:
Cluster configuration:
UCSManager_IP represents the virtual or cluster IP address assigned to
Cisco UCS Manager. Do not use the IP addresses assigned to the management port on the fabric interconnects.
Standalone configuration: UCSManager_IP represents the IP address for the management port on the fabric
interconnect
Procedure
Step 1
In your web browser, type the Cisco UCS Manager GUI web link or select the bookmark in your browser.
Step 2
If a
Security Alert dialog box appears, click
Yes to accept the security certificate and
continue.
Step 3
In the
Cisco UCS Manager
page, click
Launch.
Depending upon the web browser you use to log in, you may be
prompted to download or save the .JNLP file.
Step 4
If a
Security dialog box displays, do the following:
Optional: Check the check box to accept all content from Cisco.
Click
Yes to accept the certificate and
continue.
Step 5
In the
Login dialog box, do the following:
Enter your username and
password.
If the Cisco UCS instance implements domains, select the appropriate domain from the Domain drop-down list.
Click
Login.
Logging in to
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
through HTTP
The default HTTP web link for Cisco UCS Manager GUI is http://UCSManager_IP, where UCSManager_IP represents the IP address assigned to Cisco UCS Manager. This IP address can be one of the following:
Cluster configuration:
UCSManager_IP represents the virtual or cluster IP address assigned to
Cisco UCS Manager. Do not use the IP addresses assigned to the management port on the fabric interconnects.
Standalone configuration: UCSManager_IP represents the IP address for the management port on the fabric
interconnect
Procedure
Step 1
In your web browser, type the Cisco UCS Manager GUI web link or select the bookmark in your browser.
Step 2
In the
Cisco UCS Manager
page, click
Launch.
Depending upon the web browser you use to log in, you may be
prompted to download or save the .JNLP file.
Step 3
In the
Login dialog box, do the following:
Enter your username and
password.
If the Cisco UCS instance implements domains, select the appropriate domain from the Domain drop-down list.
Click
Login.
Logging Off Cisco UCS Manager GUI
Procedure
Step 1
In Cisco UCS Manager GUI, click Exit in the upper right.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI blurs on your screen to indicate that you cannot use it and displays the Exit dialog box.
Step 2
From the drop-down list, select one of the following:
Exit to log out and shut down Cisco UCS Manager GUI.
Log Off to log out of Cisco UCS Manager GUI and log in a different user.
Step 3
Click OK.
Changing the
Cisco UCS Manager GUI Properties
Procedure
Step 1
In the toolbar, click
Options to open the Properties dialog box.
Step 2
(Optional)To specify if
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
will require confirmation for certain procedures, do the following:
In the right pane, click
Confirmation Messages.
In the left pane, complete the following fields:
Name
Description
Confirm Deletion check box
If checked,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI requires
that you confirm all delete operations.
Confirm Discard Changes check box
If checked,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
requires that you confirm before the system discards any changes.
Confirm Modification/Creation check
box
If checked,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
requires that you confirm before the system modifies or creates objects.
Confirm Successful Operations check
box
If checked,
Cisco UCS Manager GUI
displays a confirmation when operations are successful.
Step 3
(Optional)To configure SSH external applications, do the following:
In the right pane, click
External Applications.
In the left pane, complete the following fields:
Name
Description
SSH field
The application to use for SSH processing.
SSH Parameters field
Any parameters to include in all SSH commands.
Step 4
(Optional)To change the session properties, do the following:
In the right pane, click
Session.
In the
Session page, update one or more of the
following fields:
Name
Description
Automatically Reconnect check box
If checked, the system tries to reconnect if communication
between the GUI and the fabric interconnect is interrupted.
GUI Inactivity Time Out drop-down list
The number of minutes the system should wait before ending
an inactive session. To specify that the session should not time out regardless
of the length of inactivity, choose
NEVER.
Reconnection Interval field
If the
Automatically Reconnect check box is
checked, this is the number of seconds the system waits before trying to
reconnect.
Step 5
(Optional)To change the look of
Cisco UCS Manager GUI, do the following:
In the right pane, click
Visual Enhancements.
In the
Visual Enhancements page, update one or
more of the following fields:
Name
Description
Max History Size field
The number of tabs the system should store in memory for use with the Forward and Back toolbar buttons.
Right Aligned Labels check box
If checked, all labels are right-aligned with respect to one
another. Otherwise all labels are left-aligned.
Show Image while Dragging check box
If checked, when you drag an object from one place to
another, the GUI displays a transparent version of that object until you drop
the object in its new location.
Wizard Transition Effects check box
If checked, when you go to a new page in a wizard the first
page fades out and the new page fades in. Otherwise the page changes without a
visible transition.
Step 6
Click
OK.
Copying the XML
To assist you in developing scripts or creating applications with the XML API for Cisco UCS, Cisco UCS Manager GUI includes an option to copy the XML used to create an object in Cisco UCS Manager. This option is available on the right-click menu for most object nodes in the Navigation pane, such as the Port Profiles node or the node for a specific service profile.
Procedure
Step 1
In the Navigation pane, navigate to the object for which you want to copy the XML.
Step 2
Right-click on that object and choose Copy XML.
Step 3
Paste the XML into an XML editor, Notepad, or another application.