How do I access the "VIF Paths" tab information from UCSM from PowerTool?

[brrood]

In UCS Manager, there is a tab on each server and Service Profile called "VIF Paths", how can I see this information from the UCS PowerTool or the CLI?

Thanks,

Bryan

[sumbr]

Hi Bryan,

You can use the below cmdlet to get the VIF path for the server or service profile from the UCS PowerTool.

Get-UcsServer | Get-UcsFabricLocale | Get-UcsFabricPath

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks,

Sumanth

[brrood]

Hi Sumanth,

I would never have guessed it would be that cmd! However, I tried it and it doesn't give me the details of the paths. Here is the output:

PowerTool C:\> Get-UcsServer | Get-UcsFabricLocale | Get-UcsFabricPath

CType : mux-fabric

ChassisId : 3

Enacp : virtual

Id : 1

Locale : chassis

Name :

NsSize : 30

Sacl :

Side : left

SwitchId : A

Transport : ether

Type : lan

Dn : sys/rack-unit-1/fabric-A/path-1

Rn : path-1

Status :

XtraProperty : {}

Ucs : pocucs3

CType : mux-fabric

ChassisId : 4

Enacp : virtual

Id : 1

Locale : chassis

Name :

NsSize : 30

Sacl :

Side : right

SwitchId : B

Transport : ether

Type : lan

Dn : sys/rack-unit-1/fabric-B/path-1

Rn : path-1

Status :

XtraProperty : {}

Ucs : pocucs3

Is there another cmd you can recommend?

I also posted another question about obtaining details from a RAID Controller, can you help with that question too?

Thanks,

Bryan

[thomsonac]

Hi Bryan,

I think you need one more cmdlet, get-ucsfabricpathep.  So:

get-ucsblade <blade ref, could be pndn, slot, etc> | Get-UcsFabricLocale | Get-UcsFabricPath | Get-UcsFabricPathEp

The UCS (and UCS Central) power tools are very powerful but the documentation is essentially non-existent.  A great way to try and pick apart what you need is to use the Get-UcsCmdletMeta (and Get-UcsCentralCmdletMeta) and the -tree option.  I used the following command to find what you needed (with a bit of trial and error!)

If you run a help get-fabricpath it tells you that it uses the type "FabricPath" which is what I used for the class below.

Get-UcsCmdletMeta -ClassId FabricPath -tree

FabricLocale (UcsFabricLocale) (Get)

  |-FabricPath (UcsFabricPath) (Get)

     |-DcxVc (UcsDcxVc) (Get)

     |  |-FaultInst (UcsFault) (Get)

     |  |-SwCmclan (UcsSwCmclan) (None)

     |  |-SwNetflowMonitorRef (UcsSwNetflowMonitorRef) (None)

     |  |-SwUlan (UcsSwUlan) (Get)

     |  |-SwVlan (UcsSwVlan) (Get)

     |  |  |-FabricNetflowIPv4Addr (UcsFabricNetflowIPv4Addr) (None)

     |  |  |-FaultInst (UcsFault) (Get)

     |  |-SwVsan (UcsSwVsan) (Get)

     |     |-SwFcZoneSet (UcsSwFcZoneSet) (None)

     |        |-SwFcServerZoneGroup (UcsSwFcServerZoneGroup) (None)

     |           |-SwZoneInitiatorMember (UcsSwZoneInitiatorMember) (None)

     |              |-SwFcZone (UcsSwFcZone) (None)

     |                 |-SwZoneTargetMember (UcsSwZoneTargetMember) (None)

     |-FabricPathConn (UcsFabricPathConn) (Get)

     |  |-FabricPathEp (UcsFabricPathEp) (Get)

     |     |-PortTrustMode (UcsPortTrustMode) (Get)

     |-FabricPathEp (UcsFabricPathEp) (Get)

        |-PortTrustMode (UcsPortTrustMode) (Get)

[borisaelen]

 get-ucsserver | Get-UcsFabricLocale | Get-UcsFabricPath | Get-UcsDcxVc | select dn,switchid,operstate,adminstate,vnic,linkstate | where { $_.vnic } | sort dn | ft

[brrood]

Boris,

Thank you for responding!! I just returned from vacation and I will try this out very soon.

I can't wait, I'm very excited to see if this works.

Thanks,

Bryan