Today data center architectures are transitioning to highly virtualized, highly dynamic, internal cloud forms. Monitoring activity from the computing perspective is an essential source of operational intelligence. Monitoring tools must provide sufficient capacity and flexibility to handle rapidly growing traffic volumes and a dynamic computing resource. Cisco UCS Monitoring enables the data center administrator to monitor the physical computing environment in conjunction with the virtual environment and helps reduce the corresponding management complexities, thus increasing IT agility.
This chapter covers the following key topics:
Cisco UCS System Monitoring: This section discusses various UCS monitoring features, including SNMP, Call Home, NetFlow, and traffic monitoring (known as Switched Port Analyzer, or SPAN).
Cisco Intersight: This section covers the Cisco Intersight Software-as-a-Service management platform, which provides global management of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure anywhere.
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz enables you to assess whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you are in doubt about your answers to these questions or your own assessment of your knowledge of the topics, read the entire chapter. Table 13-1 lists the major headings in this chapter and their corresponding “Do I Know This Already?” quiz questions. You can find the answers in Appendix A, “Answers to the ‘Do I Know This Already?’ Quizzes.”
Table 13-1 “Do I Know This Already?” Section-to-Question Mapping
Caution
The goal of self-assessment is to gauge your mastery of the topics in this chapter. If you do not know the answer to a question or are only partially sure of the answer, you should mark that question as wrong for purposes of the self-assessment. Giving yourself credit for an answer you correctly guess skews your self-assessment results and might provide you with a false sense of security.
1. What types of UCS interfaces support destination traffic monitoring? (Choose two answers.)
a. Ethernet
b. vNIC
c. Fibre Channel
d. FCoE Port
2. If you suspect some changes have been made to the UCS configuration and want to check who initiated them, what log do you check?
a. Syslog
b. System event logs
c. SNMP
d. Audit logs
3. The UCS system event log resides on the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) in NVRAM. What will happen if the logs reach their maximum file limits?
a. The system event log (SEL) will be rotated, and the old log will be archived automatically.
b. The system event log file has circular logging, which means that new data will delete the old data.
c. No further events can be recorded when the logs are full, unless files are backed up and cleared manually or via policy.
d. Files will be deleted, and the system event log will be lost.
4. Which Cisco Intersight license required for on-premises server (an Intersight virtual appliance)? (Choose two answers.)
a. Standard
b. Essentials
c. Advantage
d. Base
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