LAN Cloud Port Channels Test

You can aggregate a number of uplink ethernet ports by configuring them as a port channel, so traffic will forward between your upstream LAN switch and Cisco UCS fabric interconnect over the aggregate port channel ports as a single aggregated link.

This test auto-discovers the port channels configured on each Fabric Interconnect and reports the overall health, operational speed, and VLAN status of each port channel. With the help of this test, problematic and slow port channels can be identified.

Target of the test : A Cisco UCS manager

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each port channel configured on every fabric interconnect managed by the Cisco UCS manager being monitored.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter	Description
Test Period	How often should the test be executed
Host	The IP address of the host for which the test is being configured.
Port	The port at which the specified host listens. By default, this is NULL.
UCS User and UCS Password	Provide the credentials of a user with at least read-only privileges to the target Cisco UCS manager.
Confirm Password	Confirm the password by retyping it here.
SSL	By default, the Cisco UCS manager is SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to Yes by default.
Web Port	By default, in most virtualized environments, Cisco UCS manager listens on port 80 (if not SSL-enabeld) 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.
Detailed Diagnosis	To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG Enterprise embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option. To disable the capability, click on the Off option. The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled: The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability Both the normal and abnormal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.

Measurements made by the test

Measurement

Description

Measurement Unit

Interpretation

Overall status

Indicates the current overall status of this port channel.

The values reported by this measure and their corresponding numeric values are described in the table below:

Measure Value	Numeric Value
Indeterminate	0
Up	1
Admin-down	2
Link-down	3
Failed	4
No-license	5
Link-up	6
Hardware-failure	7
Software-failure	8
Error-disabled	9
Sfp-not-present	10

The detailed diagnosis of this measure provides the complete details of a port channel, such as, the ID of the port channel, the ID of the Fabric Interconnect for which it is configured, the Type, the Port type, the flow control policy, the transport, and the port channel name.

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the overall status of a port channel. However, in the graph of this measure, port channel status will be represented using their numeric equivalents only.

Administrative state

Indicates the current administrative status of this port channel.

The values that this measure can report and the numeric values that correspond to the measure values have been detailed in the table below:

Measure Value	Numeric Value
Enabled	1
Disabled	2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the administrative status of a port channel. However, in the graph of this measure, states will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only.

Administrative speed

Indicates the current administrative speed of this port channel.

Number

The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are available in the table below:

Measure Value	Numeric Value
1 Gbps	1
10 Gbps	2
20 Gbps	3
40 Gbps	4

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the administrative speed of a port channel However, in the graph of this measure, speed will be represented using the corresponding numeric values only. .

Operational speed

Indicates the current operating speed of this port channel.

Number

The values reported by this measure and their corresponding numeric equivalents are described in the table below:

Measure Value	Numeric Value
1 Gbps	1
10 Gbps	2
20 Gbps	3
40 Gbps	4

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the operational speed of a port channel. However, in the graph of this measure, the speed will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only.

VLAN status

Indicates the current VLAN status of this port channel.

The values this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values have been listed in the table below:

Measure Value	Numeric Value
OK	0
Missing-primary	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the VLAN status of a port channel. However, in the graph of this measure, the VLAN status will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only.

The detailed diagnosis of the Overall status measure provides the complete details of a port channel, such as, the ID of the port channel, the ID of the Fabric Interconnect for which it is configured, the Type, the Port type, the flow control policy, the transport, and the name.

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Figure 1 : The detailed diagnosis of the Overall status measure of the LAN Cloud Port Channels Test