Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the miscellaneous and most common tasks along with some advanced management tasks you need to perform with UCS Manager. We started looking at how to obtain and configure extra port licenses for Fabric Interconnects. We learned that UCS Fabric Interconnects are designed for continuous operation and hence do not have a power button. It is however possible to reboot Fabric Interconnect, but only from CLI. We learned about a corner case requirement in a DR situation for how to control blade power usage. We learned about looking into the Status messages and turning on/off the Locator LEDs available on blades, blade chassis, and Fabric Interconnects. We covered what the default logging setting is and how we can configure a remote Syslog server. We configured the Call Home feature which can be used to inform/alert UCS management teams and Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC).

We finally learned about how we can configure organizational structure and role...