Default Parameters for UCSCsFaultTest

This test monitors the faults raised in the Cisco UCS Manager and for each severity, this test reports the number of faults raised. Using this test, administrators can figure out which severity type of faults were raised at the maximum and take corrective measures to rectify the same.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the UCSCsFaultTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• In the UCS USER and UCS PASSWORD text boxes, provide the credentials of a user with at least read-only privileges to the target Cisco UCS Manager.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• By default, the Cisco UCS Manager is SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to Yes by default.

• By default, in most virtualized environments, Cisco UCS Manager listens on port 80 (if not SSL-enabeld) or on port 443 (if SSL-enabled) only. This implies that while monitoring Cisco UCS Manager, the eG agent, by default, connects to port 80 or 443, depending upon the SSL-enabled status of Cisco UCS Manager - i.e., if Cisco UCS Manager is not SSL-enabled (i.e., if the SSL flag above is set to No), then the eG agent connects to Cisco UCS Manager using port 80 by default, and if Cisco UCS Manager is SSL-enabled (i.e., if the SSL flag is set to Yes), then the agent-Cisco UCS Manager communication occurs via port 443 by default. Accordingly, the WEBPORT parameter is set to default by default.

  In some environments however, the default ports 80 or 443 might not apply. In such a case, against the WEBPORT parameter, you can specify the exact port at which the Cisco UCS Manager in your environment listens, so that the eG agent communicates with that port for collecting metrics from the Cisco UCS Manager.

• Typically, if the DETAILED DIAGNOSIS flag is set to On for this test, then periodically, eG Enterprise collects the complete details of all the information, error, warning, and user events generated on the Cisco UCS Manager, and stores them in the database. This way, whenever a user clicks on the Diagnosis icon (magnifying glass icon) corresponding to any of the measures reported by this test in the monitoring console, eG Enterprise retrieves the relevant detailed diagnosis information from the database and provides it to the user.  In large virtualized environments however, the number of information events generated on the Cisco UCS Manager will be quite huge. Naturally, the detailed diagnosis of such events will also occupy a considerable amount of database space, which will only grow with time. In order to minimize the strain on the eG database, by default, the detailed diagnosis capability for the information events alone is turned off in the eG Enterprise system. Accordingly, the SHOW INFO DD flag is set to False by default. However, you can this flag is set to True, so that detailed diagnosis is available for information events as well. 

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with "$" indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to "xyz" and $port will be changed to "80" when configuring a test.