Ucs Fabric Interconnect Commands

In our introduction to cisco ucs architecture we touched briefly on the cisco ucs fabric interconnect specifically we talked about the latest generation the cisco ucs 6454 fabric interconnect.

Ucs fabric interconnect commands.

Procedure command or action purpose step 1 ucs a show cluster state displays the state of fabric interconnects in the cluster and whether the. However in the ucs fi cli guide there is no mention of this command. From there i could have run connect local mgmt b and accessed ucsm which was running just fine on fabric interconnect b and flipped ucsm back to fabric interconnect a using local mgmt commands. Now i want to take a closer look at the function of the cisco ucs fabric interconnect and some things to think about when you are deploying it.

Found that from ucs fabric interconnect there is a command to connect to nxos. Well i could always access the a fabric interconnect. When committed this change may disconnect the current cli session ucs a fabric interconnect commit buffer enabling a standalone fabric interconnect for cluster configuration. The following example shows how to activate a specific version of kernel software on fabric interconnect a.

Ucs a scope fabric interconnect a ucs a fabric interconnect set out of band ip 10 105 214 107 netmask 255 255 255 0 gw 10 105 214 1 warning. Ucs forcing a fabric interconnect failover forcing a fabric interconnect failover this operation can only be performed in the cisco ucs manager cli. After connecting to nxos some no of show nxos cli commands available on nexus 5x series are available but no conf t works. Power on this fabric interconnect leaving the secondary interconnect powered off for now.

You must force the failover from the primary fabric interconnect. The success in doing that would have instantly led me to the mgmt0 connection on the b fabric.