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Measures reported by UCSFIConnsPSUsTest

A core part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects provide both network connectivity and management capabilities to all attached blades and chassis. The Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects offers line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) functions.

The interconnects provide the management and communication backbone for the Cisco UCS Blades and UCS Blade Server Chassis. All chassis, and therefore all blades, attached to the interconnects become part of a single, highly available management domain. In addition, by supporting unified fabric, the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects provides both the LAN and SAN connectivity for all blades within its domain.

Typically deployed in redundant pairs, fabric Interconnects provide uniform access to both networks and storage, eliminating the barriers to deploying a fully virtualized environment.

The Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects is provided with two front end slots to support Power Supply Units. The failure of a power supply unit, if not reddressed promptly, can cause short to prolonged breaks in the availability of the interconnects. Moreover, a sudden yet steep rise in the power/voltage/current handled by a PSU may not only injure that PSU, but also cause damage to the associated fabric interconnect. To avoid such adversities, the PSUs supported by each fabric interconnect should be periodically monitored.

This test monitors the overall health of each PSU supported by every fabric interconnect and promptly reports abnormalities such as operational issues experienced by the PSUs, critical PSU failures, serious errors in the power/thermal/voltage state of each PSU, and inexplicable surges in the input power/voltage/current of a PSU.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
OperState Indicates the overall status of the PSUs of the Fabric Interconnects.   This measure reports the status of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 Operable
2 Inoperable
3 Degraded
4 Powered-off
5 Power-problem
6 Removed
7 Voltage-problem
8 Thermal-problem
9 Performance-problem
10 Accessibility-problem
11 Identity-unestablishable
12 Bios-post-timeout
13 Disabled
51 Fabric-conn-problem
52 Fabric-unsupported-conn
81 Config
82 Equipment-problem
83 Decommissioning
84 Chassis-limit-exceeded
101 Discovery
102 Discovery-failed
103 Identify
104 Post-failure
105 Upgrade-problem
106 Peer-comm-problem
107 Auto-upgrade

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the status of the Fabric Interconnet PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.

The detailed diagnosis of this measure provides the Time, ID, PID, Revision, Serial Number and Vendor attributes of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.
Operability Indicates the operating state of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.   This measure reports the operating state of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 Operable
2 Inoperable
3 Degraded
4 Powered-off
5 Power-problem
6 Removed
7 Voltage-problem
8 Thermal-problem
9 Performance-problem
10 Accessibility-problem
11 Identity-unestablishable
12 Bios-post-timeout
13 Disabled
51 Fabric-conn-problem
52 Fabric-unsupported-conn
81 Config
82 Equipment-problem
83 Decommissioning
84 Chassis-limit-exceeded
101 Discovery
102 Discovery-failed
103 Identify
104 Post-failure
105 Upgrade-problem
106 Peer-comm-problem
107 Auto-upgrade

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the operating state of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
Performance Indicates the current performance status of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs.   This measure reports the current performance status of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 Ok
2 Upper-non-recoverable
3 Upper-critical
4 Upper-non-critical
5 Lower-non-critical
6 Lower-critical
7 Lower non-recoverable

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the performance status of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
Power Indicates the power status of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.   This measure reports the power status of the Fabric Intrconnects PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 On
2 Test
3 Off
4 Online
5 Offline
6 Offduty
7 Degraded
8 Power-save
9 Error

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the power status of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states i.e., 0 to 10.
Presence Indicates the current state of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.   This measure reports the current state of the PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 Empty
10 Equipped
11 Missing
12 Mismatch
13 Equipped-not-primary
20 Equipped-identity-unestablishable
30 Inaccessible
40 Unauthorized

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the current state of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
ThermalState Indicates the thermal state of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs.   This measure reports the thermal state of the PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 Ok
2 Upper-non-recoverable
3 Upper-critical
4 Upper-non-critical
5 Lower-non-critical
6 Lower-critical
7 Lower non-recoverable

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the thermal state of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
Voltage Indicates the voltage state of the Fabric Interconnects PSUs.   This measure reports the voltage state of the PSUs and their numeric equivalents as shown in the table:

Numeric Value State
0 Unknown
1 Ok
2 Upper-non-recoverable
3 Upper-critical
4 Upper-non-critical
5 Lower-non-critical
6 Lower-critical
7 Lower non-recoverable

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the voltage state of the Fabric Interconnect PSUs. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
InputCurrent Indicates the input current received by the PSUs of this Fabric Interconnect. Amps An abnormally high or low value of current may cause severe damage to the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.
InputPower Indicates the input power received by the PSUs of this Fabric Interconnect. Watts An abnormally high or low value of input power may cause severe damage to the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.
InputVoltage Indicates the input voltage received by the PSUs of this Fabric Interconnect. Volts An abnormally high or low value of input voltage may cause severe damage to the Fabric Interconnect PSUs.