Cisco Systems UCSCPCIEBTG, 57712 Configuring Bios Settings, Viewing Bios Status, Secondary slot

Managing the Server

Configuring BIOS Settings

•Cisco Flexible Flash must be supported on your server.

Procedure

	Command or Action	Purpose
Step 1	Server# scope chassis	Enters the chassis command mode.
Step 2	Server /chassis # scope flexflash index	Enters the Cisco Flexible Flash controller command
		mode for the specified controller. At this time, the
		only permissible index value is FlexFlash-0.
Step 3	Server /chassis/flexflash # retain	Copies the configuration from the primary slot to the
	config primary slot ID	secondary slot.
Step 4	Server /chassis/flexflash # commit	Commits the transaction to the system configuration.

This example shows how to copy the configuration from one slot to the other:

Server# scope chassis

Server /chassis # scope flexflash FlexFlash-0

Server /chassis/flexflash # retain-config slot1

This action will copy the config of slot1 to both the slots, mark slot1 as healthy, primary slot and slot2 (card must be present) as unhealthy secondary active.

This operation may disturb the host connectivity as well. Continue? [yN] y

Server /chassis/flexflash/operational-profile *# commit

Server /chassis/flexflash/operational-profile #

Configuring BIOS Settings

Viewing BIOS Status

Procedure

	Command or Action	Purpose
Step 1	Server# scope bios	Enters the BIOS command mode.
Step 2	Server /bios # show detail	Displays details of the BIOS status.

The BIOS status information contains the following fields:

Name	Description
BIOS Version	The version string of the running BIOS.

	Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Integrated Management Controller CLI Configuration Guide, Release 1.5
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