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HOW TO: Backup / Restore EMC UIM/P database, collect the logs.

Backup/Restore UIM/P database: uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # ./backup.pl Would you like to back up your current data? [y/n] y Backing up database… Backing up files… Building backup image file… Backup file created: /opt/ionix-uim/data-image/backup-image-4.0.0.0.314.CS.Sep-16-2013-14.04.tgz To restore this data file, type: restore.pl backup-image-4.0.0.0.314.CS.Sep-16-2013-14.04.tgz Collect UIM/P logs: uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # ./saveLogs.pl all adding: opt/ionix-uim/logs/cflist.3.log (deflated 95%) adding: opt/ionix-uim/logs/ssh.log (stored 0%) {skipped} […]

EMC UIM Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning 4.0 Release

UIM/P Nimbus has been released as UIM/P v. 4.0 on the 15th of August 2013. I was waiting for the official announcement and the release code on the Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning page on support.emc.com but, as it turned out, version 4.0 will have its own support page: https://support.emc.com/products/28497_Unified-Infrastructure-Manager

The review of new features can be […]

EMC UIM/P (Nimbus) review

I have been a big fan of UIM/P for a long time. I blogged vastly on the subject and was pleased to receive an invitation to take part in new version of BETA (codename Nimbus) testing. I would like to thank EMC UIM/P team for the privilege and am looking forward to cooperate with them […]

EMC UIM/P and Thick LUNs

EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager for Provisioning is a great product! It saves you a lot of time and helps you to automate a lot of tasks. The product has been in constant development and starting from v 3.0 finally became a product you would use on a regular basis. The upcoming new version of UIM/P […]

EMC UIM/P: Server Provisioning failed: Could not create zones.

EMC UIM/P server provisioning failed with the following error message:

This error message is not a problem with UIM/P (Come on! Stop blaming UIM for everything!), it is Cisco MDS SAN switch “Enhanced zoning” feature.

Enhanced zoning uses a session locking facility like CFS to prevent simultaneous zoning configuration changes by two users on […]

EMC UIM/P: OS image is not available after upgrade

I discovered another post-upgrade problem with UIM/P. I could not select OS image when configuring a new Service Offering in UIM/P.

UIM/P 3.2: UIM/P 4.0 BETA (Nimbus): When you click on ‘Enable Connection’ the following error messages displayed:

The passphrase used in both of the following files did not match, causing the password failure for […]

“Using EMC Ionix UIM” weekly series

Topic: “Using UIM Demo Series” weekly series Date: Every Wednesday, from Wednesday, 17 April 2013 to Wednesday, 8 January 2014 Time: 8:00 AM PDT (America/Los Angeles) / 16:00, GMT Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00) Meeting Number: 685 169 138 Meeting Password: ChangeIt!@34

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This series is designed to give UIM users deep dive of UIM functionality […]

HOW TO: Decommission and delete Service Offering in EMC Ionix UIM/P

Login to UIM/P management interface as sysadmin; Navigate to ‘Service Manager’ and highlight the service you would like to decommission or delete; Click ‘Deactivate’ and select servers you would like to remove from the service or select ALL, click on Deactivate; The servers will be powered off, Service Profile and vNIC(s) de-activated:

VEXC101, […]

EMC Ionix UIM/P: UCS Discovery Failed. Replace expired UCS certificate.

Cisco UCS Manager certificate expired and we had to re-generate it. See my ‘HOW TO: Regenerate expired UCS Manager certificate‘ blog post for details.

How to replace UCS certificate that was imported into UIM/P?

Well, in UIM/P 3.2 it is dead easy:

cd /opt/ionix-uim/tools ./importUcsCertificate.pl

enter UCS IP address and UIM/P will do the rest. […]

HOW TO: Reset EMC UIM/P sysadmin or root password

By default, the password for EMC UIM/P sysadmin account is ‘sysadmin‘.

If, for whatever reason, it does not work, ssh or login to the console as root and reset sysadmin password:

login as: root Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password: Last login: Wed Feb 20 18:42:28 2013 uim001:~ # cd /opt/ionix-uim/tools uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # perl password-change.pl +========================================================+ […]