What does Cisco UCS Manager do?

Cisco UCS Manager is the management system for all components in a UCS Manager. You can use any of the interfaces available with this management service to access, configure, administer, and monitor the network and server resources for all chassis connected to the fabric interconnect.

What is Cisco UCS platform?

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server computer product line composed of computing hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric, and management software introduced in 2009 by Cisco Systems.

How do I Reacknowledge my UCS blade?

On the Equipment tab, expand Equipment > Chassis > Chassis Number > Servers. Choose the server whose slot you want to reacknowledge. Click this link and then click Yes in the confirmation dialog box. Cisco UCS Manager reacknowledges the slot and discovers the server in the slot.

What is Cisco UCS switch?

The Unified Computing System (UCS) Fabric Interconnect (FI) is a core part of the design to improve scalability and reduce the total cost of ownership of data centers. The fundamental difference Cisco UCS is the servers are connected to the Fabric Interconnects, then the FI is connected to the network switches.

How to reacknowledge a server in Cisco UCS?

1 In the Navigation pane, click the Equipment tab. 2 On the Equipment tab, expand Equipment > Chassis > Chassis Number > Servers. 3 Choose the server whose slot you want to reacknowledge. 4 Click this link and then click Yes in the confirmation dialog box. Cisco UCS Manager reacknowledges the slot and discovers the server in the slot.

When to acknowledge a chassis in Cisco UCS Manager?

Lastly, you can acknowledge the chassis, if you increase or decrease the number of links that connect the chassis to the fabric interconnect. Acknowledging the chassis ensures that Fabric interconnect is aware of the change in the number of links and that traffics flows along all available links.

What does Cisco UCS Manager do for blade servers?

If a blade server slot in a chassis is empty, Cisco UCS Manager provides information, errors, and faults for that slot. You can also reacknowledge the slot to resolve server mismatch errors and to have Cisco UCS Manager rediscover the blade server in the slot.

How to re-acknowledge a Cisco Blade server?

For example, you can use this procedure if a server is stuck in an unexpected state, such as the discovery state. On the Equipment tab, expand Equipment > Chassis > Chassis Number > Servers. Choose the server that you want to acknowledge. In the Actions area, click Server Maintenance. Click Re-acknowledge. Click OK.