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Cisco UCS C240 M4 Showing few signs of life

I recently got a decommissioned UCS C240 M4 from my work for use in my homelab. I've swapped out some ram for known good sticks as well as the hard disks. Unfortunately the server isn't showing any signs of life other than the front panel lights whic...

Looking for a free version of Fabric Manager for MDS-9148 8Gb switch

Several years ago I setup a free install of Cisco Device Manager & Fabric Manager to manage various MDS9148 switches. To the best of my knowledge, the last "free" version (i.e. no license required) was v5.2.2(c). I see that Cisco has moved beyond the...

ACI L3Out with both BGP and OSPF?

Reference the screenshot below captured on a v4.2 fabric. Does it mean if I have both OSPF and BGP configured under the same L3Out, BGP would take precedence over OSPF for advertising fabric BD prefixes externally? If so, it is something new I learne...

ACI - CUBE VIP Issue

We recently migrated a pair of 4451 CUBE routers into our ACI fabric. Once we migrated layer 3 into the fabric, we started seeing issues where the CUBE VIP would go unresponsive for a minute or two - which takes the SIP trunk offline and drops all ac...

East-West traffic via firewall without service graph

Hello, How we can deploy a firewall to secure EAST-WEST traffic in ACI without service graph? traffic between EPGx and EPGy must pass via firewall. Thank you,

Is MACSEC over ACI VXLAN possible?

Is it possible to use switch-to-switch MACSEC encryption between two Catalyst 9300s that are connected to different leaf switches, at different sites, of an Cisco ACI multipod setup? The MACSEC ports on either end would be connected to the same EPG i...

Cisco VIC fNIC fctool Utility for Windows

About the Cisco VIC fNIC fctool Utility for Windows You can display Cisco VIC fNIC parameters using the Cisco command-line tool for Windows called fctool.exe. This tool has traditionally been available only from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center...

Does C93216TC-FX2 support 1Gb SFP using a QSA module?

We tried to connect a device to this new switch (to one of the 12p 40G/100G QSFP28) but the port just won't come up. These 40/100G ports already do accept the 10G SFP's but do they even support the 1G SFP?DetailsQSA module: CVR-QSFP-SFP (does support...

Resolved! What is the UCS Manager csv export time field format

Hi, I exported an Events log from UCS Manager: Equipment>Rack-Mounts>Servers>Server 4>[Events] tab > Export Note the way the time is diplayed in the GUI - the date/time clearly shows 02:07:37 UTC time on 2018-03-22. Here is the same raw record ...

Possible to Export L3 Drop with API or Other Method?

I'll preface this by saying I am sysadmin, not a network engineer but I have been given read-access to the ACO console so I can review the L3 drop/permit logs. I am looking for an automated way to export the logs so my co-workers can also see them. H...

Does the UCSCMRAID12G Support SATA HDD?

I'm having an odd issue with a server (standalone C240 M4L) where the SAS SSD's are working fine, but using SATA HDD's causes TERRIBLE performance, and getting a bunch of "Unexpected sense" errors in the storage log, before it marks the SATA HDD driv...

Linecard upgrade leaves invalid-paths where portcounts were reduced (F1209)

When upgrading from a 36-port linecard to a 32-port linecard on a 9508 chassis, the reduced ports (33-36) are left in a invalid-path state. Apparently the fabric is still trying to configure these ports, raising fault F1209: Fault delegate: Confi...

Is there a recommended baseline for PBR IP SLA timer?

Assuming I have a service graph that redirects the traffic to a pair of HA firewalls. Aside from the recommendation that the IP SLA timer (probe frequency x multiplier) for PBR Policy should be greater than the actual firewall failover timer, are the...

Resolved! Requesting information on APIC-CLUSTER-XS

Hello all,In the APIC Data Sheet I see an APIC-CLUSTER-XS listed - basically an "extra small" APIC cluster with 1 physical M3 APIC and 2 virtual APIC's.However I can't find any documentation that discusses this deployment and what it would look like ...

UCS Lan Cloud

Hello Folks, I met a strange setup for a LAN Cloud in UCS Manager (3.2.3k) There is a production VLAN with the same name and the same ID, which has been definied both in "Dual Mode", and also in "Fabric A" in the LAN Cloud (don't ask why ) - What wi...

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