With Andrew Nam
Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Director with Cisco expert Andrew Nam.
Cisco UCS Director was designed to operationally integrate bare-metal and virtual data center infrastructure resources to address complex, time-consuming, manual, and compartmentalized management processes. These processes burden IT organizations, preventing them from achieving business agility and efficiency. Cisco expert Andrew Nam will provide an update on installation, configuration, and troubleshooting VM provisioning process using Cisco UCS Director.
Andrew Nam is a data center solution engineer in the DC Solution team in Sydney, Australia, responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end solution support of Cisco Data Centre solutions, including Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus architecture, VBlock/FlexPod, VDI/VXI, and cloud solutions. His areas of expertise include routing and switching, load balancer, WAN optimization, VPN, and firewalls. Andrew has worked for Cisco for more than 13 years and has 15 years of experience in the networking industry. He graduated from New South Wales University in Australia with a mechanical/manufacturing engineering degree and holds R&S CCIE 9586, VMware VPC5, and Citrix CCA - Xendesktop5 certifications.
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Hi Evan
No problem. You can view the service and DB status from Admin GUI as below :
Go to "Administration" > "System Administration" and then look for "Support Information" tab and then click "System Information and Logs Link Page" and it will bring you the "System Information and Logs Link Page" as below.
Click either "System administration (Basic) or (Advanced). Then you will see service and DB status as below :
If you need to perform DB backup or restore task, you can do it from shelladmin access as below :
ssh to UCS director with shelladmin account and then you will see something similar to below shell menu
Menu 2 is to display service status and 3 and 4 are stop and start the services.
Menu 5, 6, 7, and 8 are related to Database.
General rule of thumb for DB is make sure to have a good DB backup before any upgrade.
I hope this helps you a little bit more.
regards
Andrew
