Using this test, you can continuously monitor the overall health, operability, and availability of each blade server in a chassis, and be alerted to anomalies as soon as they occur, so that you can take the required corrective actions before your mission-critical services begin to suffer. In addition, the test also captures critical power and thermal failures experienced by the blade servers, and takes stock of the hardware (such as processors, cores, NICs, etc.) supporting the operations of the blade server.

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

• 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 the USER, who possesses atleast read-only privilege to access the Cisco UCS Manager.

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

• By default, the Cisco UCS Manager is not SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to No by default.

• By default, in most environments, Cisco UCS Manager listens on port 80 (if not SSL-enabled) 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.

• 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.