all the methods, all the types, all the fault and FSM rules,
and extensive documentation for each of them.
In order for data center administrators and developers to
become more familiar with the Cisco UCS system, Cisco
has released a software emulator. Cisco UCS Platform
Emulator is the Cisco UCS Manager application bundled
into a virtual machine (VM). The VM includes software
that emulates hardware communications for the Cisco
UCS system. The Cisco UCS Platform Emulator can be
used to create and test a supported Cisco UCS
configuration or to duplicate an existing Cisco UCS
environment for troubleshooting and development
purposes. The Cisco UCS Platform Emulator is delivered
as an .ova file and can run in nearly any virtual
environment. The complete Cisco UCS Manager
information model documentation is also bundled within
the UCS Platform Emulator.
As usual, the Cisco DevNet team makes available to the
larger DevNet community a series of sandboxes for
easier product discovery and development. So far in this
chapter, we have used always-on sandboxes. In this
example, we will use a reservable sandbox. As the name
suggests, reservable sandboxes can be reserved up to 7
days and are available only to the person who makes the
reservation. At this writing, there is a Cisco UCS
Manager sandbox that can be used to explore the XML
API. It is called UCS Management and can be found at
https://developer.cisco.com/sandbox. This sandbox
takes advantage of the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator
version 3.2(2.5).
At this point, to authenticate and get an authentication
cookie, we can use the curl command as follows:
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