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 ... View more

Hi Hiroki I don't think you can change that value after the reployment. For the VM Label you can modify from admin portal, not from user portal. regards Andrew ... View more

Hi Hiroki Thanks for the participation in this Ask the Expoert session. Yes, Service End User can add Label to VM at User service portal. Here is how to : Assuming you already have VM provisioning policy, - Go to Policies in UCSD Director main GUI and select VM provisioning policy under VMware System Policy. - highlight the policy and click "Edit". In here you will see "End User VM Name or VM Prefix". - Tick "End User VM Name or VM Prefix" and click save. - Next login into User Self Service portal - Now you will see the VM Name or VM Prefix field to enter during the Deployment Configuraiton stage as below. I hope this helps you a little. regards Andrew ... View more

Hi Evan Thanks for the participation in this Ask the Expoert session. 1. Notification I am not too sure if you are looking for a specific "Notification" task but generally speaking Nofitication can be configured at various diffenent task and stage. One example I can share with you here is when we configure vDC, we can define virtual resources, operational details, rules, and policies to manage specific group requirements. In here you can also define approvers specific to a vDC. The approver for a particular vDC must approve the request from users for VM provisioning and this task can be notified during the provisioning process by providing email contact detail. Therefore,  configuring "Mail Setup" Under "System Administration" is the pre-requisite for the Notification. Go to Administration > System Administration > Mail Setup tab VDC creation and Approvers and Contacts 3. Periodic Report You can view the report from various different places. First place you would find is Virtual menu - Virtual, Storage, Network, and VDI. In here Admin can set automatic or manual refresh for report widget data. For automatic refresh admin has an option to customize the automatic refresh time interval (5 mins to 60 mins). If you look for the Report Customization, you can configure this from select Administration > System Administration > Reports Customerization tab : 4. Chargeback Currency : - If you need to understand how to configure chargeback, please refer to below config guide http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-director/administration-guide/4-0/chargeback.html However, if you only need to know how to set the chargeback currency, then go to system parameter tab below Administration > System Adminsitration > System Parameter tab 5. VM Locking Security : This can be configured from the same place as above. BTW, I skipped Alert question. I'm not really clear what you want to know about the Alert in UCS director. If you can be a little bit more specific, I will assist you further. regards Andrew ... View more

Hi James This Ask the Expert session may not be the right place to show you all the essential steps for how the workflow can be related to task library to achieve your initial setup flow chart, and onboarding a new client. However, I can briefly walktthrough "Client blade Provisioning" task so it might give some idea and how you can go about. Assumption :  the infrastructure used in the following examples consists of: -  Vmware VCenter -  Cisco UCS -  NetApp ONTAP controlled storage To be able to provision Cisco UCS blade server in automated fashion, you need to create and define the below UCS entities beforehand. - Create UCS Organisation - Create UUID Pool - Create MAC Address Pool - Create WWNN Pool - Create WWPN Pool - Create vHBA Templates - Create vNIC Templates - Create UCS Policy vHBAs - Create UCS Policy vNICs - Create Storage Policy - Create Network Policy - Create SAN Boot Policy - Create LAN Boot Policy Once you create all the policy above, you are good to set up a workflow container for the client blade provisoining. 1. Create UCS Service Profile - Add a ‘Create UCS Service Profile’ workflow task and select ‘Map to User Input’ for ‘Service Profile Name’. Select the ‘Service Profile Name’ dropdown as created when the workflow container was created. - ‘Create UCS Service Profile’ inputs. Ensure that Storage_Policy, Network_Policy, Boot_Policy_LAN and Boot_Policy_SAN entries are correct. - Once this is done , you can move to SAN zoning. 2. Configure SAN Zoning - In this step, a new workflow task will be created in order to configure SAN zoning. Rather than use a specific user input for this task, output variables from the previous ‘Create UCS Service Profile’ workflow task will be used as input items for this task. - Open the workflow and search for the workflow task ‘configure san zoning’. Drag the storage workflow task into the work area and map the following user inputs. Create Flexible Volume - Create a ‘Create Flexible Volume’ workflow task in order to build a NetApp flexible volume and provision it for the required size. - Once again, reconfigure the workflow such that the success criteria from the ‘Configure SAN Zoning’ workflow task proceeds to ‘Create Flexible Volume’. Create LUN - Using the NetApp ONTAP ‘Create LUN’ workflow task, create a LUN located within the volume created during the previous step. In order to do this, map the Volume Name user input to the output from the previous ‘Create Flexible Volume’ workflow task. - Next, enter the LUN details, ensuring that the configured size is less than that of the volume created in the previous step. - As before, re-map the workflow designer flow so that the successful output of the Create Flexible Volume workflow task flows into this task. 3. Create Initiator Group - Create a ‘Create Initiator Group’ workflow task in order to build a NetApp ONTAP Initiator Group. Map the ‘Filer Identity Name’ attribute to the OUTPUT_FILER_IDENTITY output variable as supplied by the ‘Create NetApp Flexible Volume’ workflow task as created earlier in this workflow. - Once again, modify the the workflow designer flow so that the successful output from ‘Create LUN’ flows into ‘Create Initiator Group’ 4. Add Initiator to Initiator Group - Create an ‘Add Initiator to Initiator Group’ workflow task and map the ‘Initiator Group Name’ entry to the OUTPUT_IGROUP_IDENTITY output variable from the ‘Create NetApp Initiator Group’ workflow task and map the ‘Initiator Name’ entry to the SP_VHBA1 output variable from the ‘Create UCS Service Profile’ workflow task created earlier in this flow. - Repeat this task for in order to add initiator name entry for SP_VHBA2. Once done, re-map the successful output from the two Create Initiator Group workflow tasks so that they flow into each other as follows: - Move onto the next step in order to map the created LUN to the initiator group. And the rest of steps are fairly similar to above. Create a Workflow and map the User Input Mappings". 5. Map LUN to Initiator Group 6. Modify UCS Boot Policy LUN ID 7. Select UCS Server 8. Associate UCS Service Profile 9. Power On UCS Server 10. Modify UCS Service Profile Boot Policy 11. Add VLAN to Service Policy 12. Disassociate UCS Service Profile 13. Wait for Specified Duration 14. Associate UCS Service Profile 15. Power On UCS Server 16. Register Host with VCenter regards Andrew ... View more

Hi Sarah No problem. Thank you for the particiation. Going back to your follow up question, UCS director is the SW tool for Bare metal provisioning and Virtual provisioning so the performance issue is mostly visible from the lack of response in the Web site when you need to monitor or perform the provisoning task. Symptoms often exhibit as the initial login page would display fine however the loading of subsequent pages and navigation through the site is not appropriate. It would take too long to load a new page once it was clicked on. Here is the checklist : 1. VM resource reservation Try to reserve the resources for CUIC Virtual Machine via vSphere : CPU --> 2000 Mhz Memory --> 3GB Note : This requirement may vary as per the new release is available. 2. Infrastructure Polling interval Increase "Infrastructure Polling interval" from default value to 60 min. This setting can be configured at Administration > Physical Accounts > Infrastructure System parameters 3. Monitoring property Only enable property absolutely needed. We have seen some customer has enabled all the properties in "Advance Configuration", it can significantly contribute the slowness on the system. You can adjust this setting at Administration > System Administration > Advanced Configuration Note :  As a course of troubleshooting, untick "Performance monitoring" or untick everything and monitor if the problem goes away. Enable property absolutely needed. 4. Map Report Review the map report to see if there is any VM in orverload status. If there is any VM in overload status, you need to increase the resource to the VM. The Map Report is found from Virtual > "Map Reports" tab 5. If none of them help, open TAC service request and forward all logs and system info (Adv). regards Andrew ... View more

Hi Sarah From UCS Director main menu go to "Administration" > "System Administration" and then look for "Support Information" tab. Click "System Information and Logs Link Page" and it will bring you the "System Information and Logs Link Page" as below. Click "Download All Logs" button and it will save the log name as Latestlog.zip to your local pc. I hope this answers your question. regards Andrew ... View more

That is expected behaviour wih sticky. regards Andrew ... View more

"show system-resources" cmd give you some info about cpu and memory utilization.  For the flows info, you can go into llama mode and type "flow statisics" to check free FCBs. regards Andrew ... View more

Yes, you always need to define interesting traffic to apply the connection parameter-map. If you apply "tcp timeout half-closed" to any traffic then you need to define class-map with 0.0.0.0. If you want to apply the "tcp timeout half-closed" to the current class-map, then you can assoicate it with a multi-match policy map as below : The service policy always applies to the incoming interface. ... ... parameter-map type connection TCPIP_PARAM_MAP set tcp timeout half-closed 180 policy-map multi-match int827   class wss-1100     loadbalance vip inservice     loadbalance policy wss-1100-l7slb     connection advanced-options   class wss-1101     loadbalance vip inservice     loadbalance policy wss-1101-l7slb     connection advanced-options ... ... Just one more side note for the timeout parameter. The timeout value (default or other wise) remains the same irrespective of normalization or no norm. If you have a parameter map configured for timeout then it should still take in affect when you have normalization disabled. The only difference is that with normalization enabled, ACE will send a reset back after the timeout expires and will silently drop it when no norm is configured. regards Andrew ... View more

check this out. I think you can get demo license from licensing team. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/application_networking_manager/5.1/installation/guide/IG_config.html#wp1084390 regards Andrew ... View more

I think you can download from below link : http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=283934343&flowid=29861&softwareid=282156448&release=5.1&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest ... View more

Hi Jaime I am trying to remember this. In ealier code I think A1.x it didn't support this but from A2.x I think you can apply SNAT with the same IP used as VIP address. To me better practice to apply SNAT is using ip address other than vip. regards Andrew ... View more

I think your colleague opened a TAC case for this. So we checked the ACE via Webex session and this ACE is configured as a FT standby and the peer ACE running as Active. The peer Active ACE is not configured with any logging cmds. regards Andrew ... View more

Your access-list will only pass a match of any source to destination 172.255.55.89 port tcp and udp 3333. Anything other than this will not pass the tunnel 901 interface. regards Andrew ... View more