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Cisco Intersight v2

Last Updated: 02-October-2019

About This Demonstration

This guide for the preconfigured demonstration includes:

About This Demonstration

Requirements

About This Solution

Scenario 1. Cisco Intersight Overview

What’s Next?



Limitations

The Cisco Intersight™ environment is read-only. This demonstration provides a framework for explaining many of the features & benefits of Cisco Intersight, but does not provide administrative access to the product.

Requirements

The table below outlines the requirements for this preconfigured demonstration.

Table 1. Requirements

Required Optional

Laptop Cisco AnyConnect®

About This Solution

Cisco Intersight™ provides intelligent cloud-based infrastructure management with embedded analytics for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) and Cisco HyperFlex® platforms. This platform offers an intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in more advanced ways than the prior generations of tools.

Intersight™ provides management as a service and is designed to be easy to implement and scale. Cisco UCS® and Cisco HyperFlex systems are fully programmable infrastructure with a unified API. Cisco Intersight is API driven, so the platform and the connected systems are DevOps-enabled to facilitate continuous delivery. Users from operations and development teams can access the platform through portals that are designed for various personas.



Scenario 1. Cisco Intersight Overview

Steps

Dashboard Overview

1. From the opening screen, click Sign in with Cisco ID.



2. Cisco Intersight is continuously receiving new feature updates and improvements. Users may be greeted by a site tour to introduce the UI and announce new features after logging in. Complete the tour by clicking Start Tour or click the x in the upper right corner to proceed to the dashboard

3. Briefly explain the features of the Intersight dashboard, which displays information about the physical dCloud UCS Domains (including all Fabric Interconnect and Servers), and HyperFlex Clusters, that have been registered and are currently under management by Intersight, as well as some high-level information about alarms.



4. In the upper right, click the user name to open the User Profile.

5. Click User Preferences.

6. User preferences allow you to change the screen theme from light to dark, or change the language.

7. Click Cancel to close the pop up.

8. Click the Settings icon in the top ribbon to view the abilities and permissions allowed for the user type.



9. In the upper ribbon, click the global Alarms icon to expand the alarms menu.

10. Click View All to view the alarms table. You can filter by severity, search, export, or page through the alarm listing.



Add or Remove a Dashboard

1. From the menu, select Dashboards. This displays a summary of information for the account.

2. Click the plus to show how you can add a new dashboard.

3. Click on the pencil icon and rename the new dashboard as HCL.

4. Click the dashboard name and in the upper right hand corner, click Add Widget.



5. The Widget Library displays.

6. In the search bar for the widget library, enter hcl to search for HCL related widgets.

7. Select the Server HCL Status Summary widget.



8. Select Add Widget.

9. Once the confirmation message displays, click the X to close the Add Widget window.

Servers

1. From the menu, select Servers.



2. Click in the Search bar and scroll down to select the user-defined tag called HX Cluster.

3. Select dCloud-SJC-HX to see a customized list of servers based on the user-defined tag.

4. Click on dCloud-SJC-HX-3.



5. This drills down into General details of the specific server

6. Point out the Front View of the server in the properties.

7. Click the Rear View to see a different Intersight-rendered view of the server.



8. Click the Top View to see a different Intersight-rendered view of the server.

9. Click the tags to see the Managed tags used to identify the server. Authorized users can add tags by typing tag names. Click x to close the pop up.



10. Click the Inventory tab to see real inventory information on the server, including CPUs, Network Adapters, and Storage Controllers.

11. Click the HCL tab to check the status of the supported combination of operating system and drivers.

12. The HCL is reporting Not Found, which means this particular combination is not found in the back end test databases.



13. Click Get Recommended Drivers to see the recommendations for this OS vendor and version, and this OS collection of hardware and firmware.

14. The provided link goes to Cisco.com software repository where you can download the recommended drivers.

15. Click X to close the driver tab.

16. Click Close to close the Recommended Drivers pop up.



UCS Management and HyperFlex Connect Launch

The purpose of this section is to show the integration between Cisco Intersight and Cisco UCS Manager. This integration allows Cisco Intersight to function as a single pane of glass for server management, as the user does not have to leave the Cisco Intersight user interface to manage the servers via UCS Manager.

1. While still on the server page, click on the Actions drop down and select Launch UCSM.

2. This connects you to the UCSM and allows you manage any UCSM configuration from the Intersight-launched UI.



3. Return to the Intersight tab, and from the menu select Hyperflex Clusters.

4. This displays summary information on the connected Hyperflex Clusters.

5. Click the three dots at the right of the row and select to Launch HyperFlex Connect for the cluster.

6. Click System Information from the HyperFlex Connect menu.



7. This displays detailed overview information on the cluster.

8. Select Nodes to take a look at the node information for the cluster.



9. Select Disks to see the disk information for the cluster.

10. From the menu, select Datastores to view the currently configured data stores for the cluster.

11. Return to the Intersight tab, and on the menu select Fabric Interconnects.

12. This displays information on the fabric interconnects for each domain connected into Intersight.



13. From the menu, select Policies.

14. The HyperFlex policies display for the cluster.

15. Click Server Policies to display the policies created for the servers within the account.



Service Profiles

The purpose of this section is to examine the pre-configured service profiles and policies that exist in the demonstration version of Intersight. Service profiles allow network operators to push configuration to a server and apply policies without logging into the servers individually. This level of automation saves time and prevents bad configuration due to user error.

1. From the menu, click Service Profiles. The policies are used here in the logical definitions applied to HyperFlex clusters.

2. Click on the Server Profile tab to display the server profiles.

3. Click on the profile name to see details on the profile.

VALUE PROPOSITION: The Boot, NTP, User, and BIOS policies are used in the creation of the service profile. In production, users can create these profiles and specify how the policy is configured (for example, the User policy can be set to enforce a strong password or to mandate that a password not be reused within five password changes). When the service profile is applied to a blade or a server, the policies are applied.



4. Click the page icon to the right of any policy to expand the details for the policy.

5. Click the Server tab to see the servers assigned. If no servers are assigned, the cluster uses a profile definition containing a set of policies.



6. From the menu, select Devices. This displays which endpoints devices are claimed for the Intersight account.

7. Click Search and select the Type to see the available device types.



8. From the types, select UCS Domain to display the specific UCS domains and the pair of fabric interconnects in that domain connected into InterSight.

Submitting Feedback

The Feedback form is Intersight users’ primary means of communication with the Cisco engineering team. It is used to submit feedback, request feature enhancements, and report issues.

1. At any time while working with the InterSight dashboard, you can click the Help icon in the upper right to Send Us Feedback.



2. Feedback includes making suggestions about the UI or reporting defects.

What’s Next?

For more information on Cisco UCS Intersight, visit the following websites:

• cisco.com/go/intersight

• https://intersight.com

• communities.cisco.com/ucs

https://intersight.com/

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