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Pending Activities
If you configure deferred deployment in a Cisco UCS domain, Cisco UCS Manager enables you to view all
pending activities. You can see activities that are waiting for user acknowledgement and those that have been
scheduled.
If a Cisco UCS domain has pending activities, Cisco UCS Manager GUI notifies users with admin privileges
when they log in.
Cisco UCS Manager displays information about all pending activities, including the following:
• Name of the service profile to be deployed and associated with a server
• Server affected by the deployment
• Disruption caused by the deployment
• Change performed by the deployment
You cannot specify the maintenance window in which a specific pending activity is applied to the server.
The maintenance window depends upon how many activities are pending and which maintenance policy
is assigned to the service profile. However, any user with admin privileges can manually initiate a pending
activity and reboot the server immediately, whether it is waiting for user acknowledgment or for a
maintenance window.
Note
Guidelines and Limitations for Deferred Deployment
Cannot Undo All Changes to Service Profiles or Service Profile Templates
If you cancel a pending change, Cisco UCS Manager attempts to roll back the change without rebooting the
server. However, for complex changes, Cisco UCS Manager may have to reboot the server a second time to
roll back the change. For example, if you delete a vNIC, Cisco UCS Manager reboots the server according
to the maintenance policy included in the service profile. You cannot cancel this reboot and change, even if
you restore the original vNIC in the serviceprofile. Instead, Cisco UCS Manager schedules a second deployment
and reboot of the server.
Association of Service Profile Can Exceed Boundaries of Maintenance Window
After Cisco UCS Manager begins the association of the service profile, the scheduler and maintenance policy
do not have any control over the procedure. If the service profile association does not complete within the
allotted maintenance window, the process continues until it is completed. For example, this can occur if the
association does not complete in time because of retried stages or other issues.
Cannot Specify Order of Pending Activities
Scheduled deployments run in parallel and independently. You cannot specify the order in which the
deployments occur. You also cannot make the deployment of one service profile change dependent upon the
completion of another.
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Deferred Deployment of Service Profiles