Cisco Cisco Content Acquirer Application Installation Guide

The first step to getting a UCS server up and running is to install the server in its physical location. UCS 
servers running Internet Streamer VDS Release 3.3 software are typically rack-mounted servers, so you 
are most-likely installing the server to a rack. See the “

” section in the Cisco UCS 

C200 Installation and Service Guide or the “

” section of the Cisco UCS C210 

Installation and Service Guide for the rack installation procedure for the respective servers.See the 
“

” section in the Cisco UCS C220 Installation and Service Guide or the “

” section of the Cisco UCS C240 Installation and Service Guide for the rack installation 

procedure for the respective servers.

This document assumes that the following steps have been performed as part of the rack installation 
process:

Disk bays are populated with disk drives.

Power cable is connected to the server.

The UCS has an integrated management functionality known as the Cisco Integrated Management 
Controller (CIMC). CIMC allows you to do the following:

Configure BIOS settings through HTTP.

Remotely power cycle the device.

Control video, mouse and keyboard (KVM) through Java.

Mount a virtual CD-ROM/block device/FDD to the system.

Connect and perform various other operations.

Do the following to access the CIMC:

Attach an Ethernet cable to the Management port of the UCS server. The Management port is labeled 
“M” (the port with the yellow Ethernet cable connection shown below).

Do the following to connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor to initially bring up the CIMC:

Attach the USB keyboard cable to the USB port.

Attach the VGA monitor cable to the monitor port.